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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]12<h1>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]13 Architecture/platform information for compiler writers
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]14</h1>
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16<div class="doc_warning">
17 <p>Note: This document is a work-in-progress. Additions and clarifications
18 are welcome.</p>
19</div>
20
21<ol>
22 <li><a href="#hw">Hardware</a>
23 <ol>
Misha Brukman2c5b1d22005-03-30 01:14:38 +0000[diff] [blame]24 <li><a href="#alpha">Alpha</a></li>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]25 <li><a href="#arm">ARM</a></li>
Duraid Madina81dbf442005-03-30 05:33:54 +0000[diff] [blame]26 <li><a href="#ia64">Itanium</a></li>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]27 <li><a href="#mips">MIPS</a></li>
28 <li><a href="#ppc">PowerPC</a></li>
29 <li><a href="#sparc">SPARC</a></li>
30 <li><a href="#x86">X86</a></li>
31 <li><a href="#other">Other lists</a></li>
32 </ol></li>
33 <li><a href="#abi">Application Binary Interface (ABI)</a>
34 <ol>
35 <li><a href="#linux">Linux</a></li>
36 <li><a href="#osx">OS X</a></li>
37 </ol></li>
Misha Brukman38d38282005-03-11 21:18:18 +0000[diff] [blame]38 <li><a href="#misc">Miscellaneous resources</a></li>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]39</ol>
40
41<div class="doc_author">
42 <p>Compiled by <a href="http://misha.brukman.net">Misha Brukman</a></p>
43</div>
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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]46<h2><a name="hw">Hardware</a></h2>
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50
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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]52<h3><a name="alpha">Alpha</a></h3>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]53
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]54<div>
Misha Brukman2c5b1d22005-03-30 01:14:38 +0000[diff] [blame]55<ul>
56<li><a
57href="http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/info/semiconductor/literature/dsc-library.html">Alpha manuals</a>
58</li>
59</ul>
60</div>
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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]63<h3><a name="arm">ARM</a></h3>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]64
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]65<div>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]66<ul>
67<li><a href="http://www.arm.com/documentation/">ARM documentation</a>
68(<a href="http://www.arm.com/documentation/ARMProcessor_Cores/">Processor
69Cores</a>)</li>
Misha Brukman4d595872006-08-22 21:56:43 +0000[diff] [blame]70<li><a href="http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/ABI.html">ABI</a></li>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]71</ul>
72</div>
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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]75<h3><a name="ia64">Itanium (ia64)</a></h3>
Duraid Madina81dbf442005-03-30 05:33:54 +0000[diff] [blame]76
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]77<div>
Duraid Madina81dbf442005-03-30 05:33:54 +0000[diff] [blame]78<ul>
79<li><a
80href="http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium2/documentation.htm">Itanium documentation</a>
81</li>
82</ul>
83</div>
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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]86<h3><a name="mips">MIPS</a></h3>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]87
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]88<div>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]89<ul>
90<li><a
91href="http://mips.com/content/Documentation/MIPSDocumentation/ProcessorArchitecture/doclibrary">MIPS
92Processor Architecture</a></li>
93</ul>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]94</div>
95
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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]97<h3><a name="ppc">PowerPC</a></h3>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]98
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]99<div>
100
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]101<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]102<h4>IBM - Official manuals and docs</h4>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]103
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]104<div>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]105
106<ul>
107<li><a
108href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/archguide.html">PowerPC
109Architecture Book</a>
110<ul>
111 <li>Book I: <a
112 href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/pdfs/archpub1.pdf">PowerPC
113 User Instruction Set Architecture</a></li>
114 <li>Book II: <a
115 href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/pdfs/archpub2.pdf">PowerPC
116 Virtual Environment Architecture</a></li>
117 <li>Book III: <a
118 href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/pdfs/archpub3.pdf">PowerPC
119 Operating Environment Architecture</a></li>
120</ul></li>
121<li><a
122href="http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF7785256996007558C6">PowerPC
123Compiler Writer's Guide</a></li>
124<li><A
125href="http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/PowerPC">PowerPC
126Processor Manuals</a></li>
127<li><a
128href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-powarch/">Intro to
129PowerPC architecture</a></li>
130<li><a href="http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixassem/alangref/alangreftfrm.htm">IBM AIX/5L for POWER Assembly reference</a></li>
131</ul>
132
133</div>
134
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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]136<h4>Other documents, collections, notes</h4>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]137
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]138<div>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]139
140<ul>
141<li><a href="http://penguinppc.org/dev/#library">PowerPC ABI documents</a></li>
142<li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-09/msg00997.html">PowerPC64
143alignment of long doubles (from GCC)</a></li>
144<li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-04/msg00573.html">Long
145branch stubs for powerpc64-linux (from binutils)</a></li>
146</ul>
147
148</div>
149
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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]153<h3><a name="sparc">SPARC</a></h3>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]154
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]155<div>
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157<ul>
158<li><a href="http://www.sparc.org/resource.htm">SPARC resources</a></li>
159<li><a href="http://www.sparc.org/standards.html">SPARC standards</a></li>
160</ul>
161
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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]165<h3><a name="x86">X86</a></h3>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]166
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168
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]169<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]170<h4>AMD - Official manuals and docs</h4>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]171
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]172<div>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]173<ul>
174<li><a
175href="http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_739,00.html">AMD processor manuals</a></li>
Chris Lattnerf5a5a6c2005-05-14 22:06:42 +0000[diff] [blame]176<li><a href="http://www.x86-64.org/documentation">X86-64 ABI</a></li>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]177</ul>
178</div>
179
180<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]181<h4>Intel - Official manuals and docs</h4>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]182
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]183<div>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]184<ul>
185<li><a
186href="http://developer.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/index_new.htm">IA-32
187manuals</a></li>
188<li><a
189href="http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/documentation.htm?iid=ipp_srvr_proc_itanium2+techdocs">Intel
190Itanium documentation</a></li>
191</ul>
192</div>
193
194<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]195<h4>Other x86-specific information</h4>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]196
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]197<div>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]198<ul>
199<li><a href="http://www.agner.org/assem/calling_conventions.pdf">Calling
200conventions for different C++ compilers and operating systems</a></li>
201</ul>
202</div>
203
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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]207<h3><a name="other">Other relevant lists</a></h3>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]208
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]209<div>
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211<ul>
212<li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html">GCC reading list</a></li>
213</ul>
214
215</div>
216
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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]220<h2><a name="abi">ABI</a></h2>
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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]226<h3><a name="linux">Linux</a></h3>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]227
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]228<div>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]229<ol>
230<li><a href="http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/">PowerPC 64-bit ELF ABI
231Supplement</a></li>
232</ol>
233</div>
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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]236<h3><a name="osx">OS X</a></h3>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]237
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]238<div>
Misha Brukmane3c803c2004-11-08 02:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]239<ol>
240<li><a
241href="http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/RuntimeArchitecture-date.html">Mach-O
242Runtime Architecture</a></li>
243<li><a href="http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000044.php">Notes on Mach-O
244ABI</a></li>
245</ol>
246
247</div>
248
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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]252<h2><a name="misc">Miscellaneous resources</a></h2>
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255<ul>
256<li><a
257href="http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles/ExecutableFileFormats/">Executable
258File Format library</a></li>
Misha Brukman38d38282005-03-11 21:18:18 +0000[diff] [blame]259<li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/prefetch.html">GCC prefetch project</a>
260page has a good survey of the prefetching capabilities of a variety of modern
261processors.</li>
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