CR is saved and/or restored on some paths where GPR12 is already live since it has a meaning in the calling convention in the ELFv2 ABI.
It is not completely clear to me that we can always use r11 here, but it does seem save, there is checking code (to detect conflicts here), and it is stage 1. So here goes. Segher 2021-09-03 Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> PR target/102107 * config/rs6000/rs6000-logue.c (rs6000_emit_prologue): On ELFv2 use r11 instead of r12 for CR save, in all cases. --- gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000-logue.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000-logue.c b/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000-logue.c index 07337c4836a3..e363d56ecec0 100644 --- a/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000-logue.c +++ b/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000-logue.c @@ -3293,10 +3293,13 @@ rs6000_emit_prologue (void) /* If we need to save CR, put it into r12 or r11. Choose r12 except when r12 will be needed by out-of-line gpr save. */ - cr_save_regno = ((DEFAULT_ABI == ABI_AIX || DEFAULT_ABI == ABI_ELFv2) - && !(strategy & (SAVE_INLINE_GPRS - | SAVE_NOINLINE_GPRS_SAVES_LR)) - ? 11 : 12); + if (DEFAULT_ABI == ABI_AIX + && !(strategy & (SAVE_INLINE_GPRS | SAVE_NOINLINE_GPRS_SAVES_LR))) + cr_save_regno = 11; + else if (DEFAULT_ABI == ABI_ELFv2) + cr_save_regno = 11; + else + cr_save_regno = 12; if (!WORLD_SAVE_P (info) && info->cr_save_p && REGNO (frame_reg_rtx) != cr_save_regno -- 1.8.3.1