Bill Wendling | 53960a6 | 2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | ======================================================== |
| 2 | Architecture & Platform Information for Compiler Writers |
| 3 | ======================================================== |
| 4 | |
| 5 | .. contents:: |
| 6 | :local: |
| 7 | |
| 8 | .. note:: |
| 9 | |
| 10 | This document is a work-in-progress. Additions and clarifications are |
| 11 | welcome. |
| 12 | |
Bill Wendling | 53960a6 | 2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | Hardware |
| 14 | ======== |
| 15 | |
| 16 | ARM |
| 17 | --- |
| 18 | |
| 19 | * `ARM documentation <http://www.arm.com/documentation/>`_ (`Processor Cores <http://www.arm.com/documentation/ARMProcessor_Cores/>`_ Cores) |
| 20 | |
| 21 | * `ABI <http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/ABI.html>`_ |
| 22 | |
Tim Northover | 72062f5 | 2013-01-31 12:12:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | AArch64 |
| 24 | ------- |
| 25 | |
| 26 | * `ARMv8 Instruction Set Overview <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.genc010197a/index.html>`_ |
| 27 | |
Bill Wendling | 53960a6 | 2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | Itanium (ia64) |
| 29 | -------------- |
| 30 | |
| 31 | * `Itanium documentation <http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium2/documentation.htm>`_ |
| 32 | |
| 33 | MIPS |
| 34 | ---- |
| 35 | |
| 36 | * `MIPS Processor Architecture <http://mips.com/content/Documentation/MIPSDocumentation/ProcessorArchitecture/doclibrary>`_ |
| 37 | |
| 38 | PowerPC |
| 39 | ------- |
| 40 | |
| 41 | IBM - Official manuals and docs |
| 42 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| 43 | |
Bill Schmidt | 63c61e5 | 2013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | * `Power Instruction Set Architecture, Versions 2.03 through 2.06 (authentication required, free sign-up) <https://www.power.org/technology-introduction/standards-specifications>`_ |
Bill Wendling | 53960a6 | 2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | |
Bill Schmidt | 63c61e5 | 2013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | * `PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide <http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF7785256996007558C6>`_ |
Bill Wendling | 53960a6 | 2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | |
Bill Schmidt | fd98072 | 2013-02-11 14:14:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | * `Intro to PowerPC Architecture <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-powarch/>`_ |
| 49 | |
Bill Schmidt | 63c61e5 | 2013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | * `PowerPC Processor Manuals (embedded) <http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/PowerPC>`_ |
Bill Wendling | 53960a6 | 2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | |
Bill Schmidt | 63c61e5 | 2013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | * `Various IBM specifications and white papers <https://www.power.org/documentation/?document_company=105&document_category=all&publish_year=all&grid_order=DESC&grid_sort=title>`_ |
| 53 | |
Bill Wendling | 53960a6 | 2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | * `IBM AIX/5L for POWER Assembly Reference <http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixassem/alangref/alangreftfrm.htm>`_ |
| 55 | |
| 56 | Other documents, collections, notes |
| 57 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| 58 | |
| 59 | * `PowerPC ABI documents <http://penguinppc.org/dev/#library>`_ |
| 60 | * `PowerPC64 alignment of long doubles (from GCC) <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-09/msg00997.html>`_ |
| 61 | * `Long branch stubs for powerpc64-linux (from binutils) <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-04/msg00573.html>`_ |
| 62 | |
| 63 | SPARC |
| 64 | ----- |
| 65 | |
| 66 | * `SPARC resources <http://www.sparc.org/resource.htm>`_ |
| 67 | * `SPARC standards <http://www.sparc.org/standards.html>`_ |
| 68 | |
| 69 | X86 |
| 70 | --- |
| 71 | |
| 72 | AMD - Official manuals and docs |
| 73 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| 74 | |
| 75 | * `AMD processor manuals <http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_739,00.html>`_ |
| 76 | * `X86-64 ABI <http://www.x86-64.org/documentation>`_ |
| 77 | |
| 78 | Intel - Official manuals and docs |
| 79 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| 80 | |
Dmitri Gribenko | dcd3a70 | 2012-12-13 20:02:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | * `Intel 64 and IA-32 manuals <http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html>`_ |
Bill Wendling | 53960a6 | 2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | * `Intel Itanium documentation <http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/documentation.htm?iid=ipp_srvr_proc_itanium2+techdocs>`_ |
| 83 | |
| 84 | Other x86-specific information |
| 85 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| 86 | |
Jean-Daniel Dupas | 5090b2d | 2012-11-12 23:43:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 87 | * `Calling conventions for different C++ compilers and operating systems <http://www.agner.org/optimize/calling_conventions.pdf>`_ |
Bill Wendling | 53960a6 | 2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 88 | |
| 89 | Other relevant lists |
| 90 | -------------------- |
| 91 | |
| 92 | * `GCC reading list <http://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html>`_ |
| 93 | |
| 94 | ABI |
| 95 | === |
| 96 | |
| 97 | Linux |
| 98 | ----- |
| 99 | |
| 100 | * `PowerPC 64-bit ELF ABI Supplement <http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/>`_ |
Tim Northover | 72062f5 | 2013-01-31 12:12:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 101 | * `Procedure Call Standard for the AArch64 Architecture <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0055a/IHI0055A_aapcs64.pdf>`_ |
| 102 | * `ELF for the ARM 64-bit Architecture (AArch64) <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0056a/IHI0056A_aaelf64.pdf>`_ |
Bill Wendling | 53960a6 | 2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | |
| 104 | OS X |
| 105 | ---- |
| 106 | |
| 107 | * `Mach-O Runtime Architecture <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/RuntimeArchitecture-date.html>`_ |
| 108 | * `Notes on Mach-O ABI <http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000044.php>`_ |
| 109 | |
| 110 | Miscellaneous Resources |
| 111 | ======================= |
| 112 | |
| 113 | * `Executable File Format library <http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles/ExecutableFileFormats/>`_ |
| 114 | |
| 115 | * `GCC prefetch project <http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/prefetch.html>`_ page has a |
| 116 | good survey of the prefetching capabilities of a variety of modern |
| 117 | processors. |