// specific work like setting up the elf headers/dynamic relocations, etc.
	// The phases are called "Asmb" and "Asmb2". Asmb2 needs to be defined for
	// every architecture, but only if architecture has an Asmb function will
	// it be used for assembly.  Otherwise a generic assembly Asmb function is
	// used.
	Asmb  func(*Link, *loader.Loader)
	Asmb2 func(*Link, *loader.Loader)

	case "archive":
		return true

	case "c-archive":
		switch goos {
		case "aix", "darwin", "ios", "windows":
			return true
		case "linux":
			switch goarch {
			case "386", "amd64", "arm", "armbe", "arm64", "arm64be", "loong64", "ppc64le", "riscv64", "s390x":
				// linux/ppc64 not supported because it does
				// not support external linking mode yet.
				return true
			default:

			// statically in the 'reloc' phase, or externally
			// linking, in which case the relocation will be
			// prepared in the 'reloc' phase and passed to the
			// external linker in the 'asmb' phase.
			if ldr.SymType(s) != sym.SDATA && ldr.SymType(s) != sym.SRODATA {
				break
			}
		}
		// Generate R_PPC64_RELATIVE relocations for best
		// efficiency in the dynamic linker.
		//