For functions that require restoring SP from FP (e.g. that need to
align the stack, or that have variable sized allocations), the prologue
and epilogue previously used to look like this:
push {r4-r5, r11, lr}
add r11, sp, #8
...
sub r4, r11, #8
mov sp, r4
pop {r4-r5, r11, pc}
This is problematic, because this unwinding operation (restoring sp
from r11 - offset) can't be expressed with the SEH unwind opcodes
(probably because this unwind procedure doesn't map exactly to
individual instructions; note the detour via r4 in the epilogue too).
To make unwinding work, the GPR push is split into two; the first one
pushing all other registers, and the second one pushing r11+lr, so that
r11 can be set pointing at this spot on the stack:
push {r4-r5}
push {r11, lr}
mov r11, sp
...
mov sp, r11
pop {r11, lr}
pop {r4-r5}
bx lr
For the same setup, MSVC generates code that uses two registers;
r11 still pointing at the {r11,lr} pair, but a separate register
used for restoring the stack at the end:
push {r4-r5, r7, r11, lr}
add r11, sp, #12
mov r7, sp
...
mov sp, r7
pop {r4-r5, r7, r11, pc}
For cases with clobbered float/vector registers, they are pushed
after the GPRs, before the {r11,lr} pair.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125649
