Consider an operating system. I write some code that does the following:
a) Load registers into some LLVM IR registers (using inline asm)
b) Modify the registers slightly
c) Use volatile stores to save the registers into a stack-allocated area
d) Context switch
e) Use volatile loads to reload the registers from the stack-allocated area
the register save/restore code should be in the assembly written context-switch
part, not in high level C part.
think analogously about setjmp/longjmp, no one would ever factor the register
save/restore out of the rest of the setjmp/longjmp logic.
Peter Lawrence.