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@@ -6007,10 +6007,13 @@ The user can call functions specified with the 
'no_caller_saved_registers'
 attribute from an interrupt handler without saving and restoring all
 call-clobbered registers.
 
-Functions specified with the 'no_caller_saved_registers' attribute should only
+On X86, functions specified with the 'no_caller_saved_registers' attribute 
should only
 call other functions with the 'no_caller_saved_registers' attribute, or should 
be
 compiled with the '-mgeneral-regs-only' flag to avoid saving unused non-GPR 
registers.
 
+On PowerPC, functions specified with the 'no_caller_saved_registers' attribute 
may not
+return a value as the return register will be restored and thus cannot hold a 
value.
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efriedma-quic wrote:

The way preserve_most/preserve_all works on x86 is that the function definition 
preserves the value or RAX if and only if it's not used to pass or return 
values.  So a `void(void)` function preserves RAX, but an `int(void) function 
doesn't.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/174320
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