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2Architecture & 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 Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]13Hardware
14========
15
16ARM
17---
18
19* `ARM documentation <http://www.arm.com/documentation/>`_ (`Processor Cores <http://www.arm.com/documentation/ARMProcessor_Cores/>`_ Cores)
20
Amara Emerson1aef1632013-05-03 23:57:17 +0000[diff] [blame]21* `ABI <http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/ABI.html>`_
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]22
Joey Gouly31d2f082013-06-27 11:49:26 +0000[diff] [blame]23* `ABI Addenda and Errata <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0045d/IHI0045D_ABI_addenda.pdf>`_
24
Tim Northoverc9662852013-04-08 08:42:24 +0000[diff] [blame]25* `ARM C Language Extensions <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0053a/IHI0053A_acle.pdf>`_
26
Tim Northover72062f52013-01-31 12:12:40 +0000[diff] [blame]27AArch64
28-------
29
30* `ARMv8 Instruction Set Overview <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.genc010197a/index.html>`_
31
Tim Northoverc9662852013-04-08 08:42:24 +0000[diff] [blame]32* `ARM C Language Extensions <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0053a/IHI0053A_acle.pdf>`_
33
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]34Itanium (ia64)
35--------------
36
37* `Itanium documentation <http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium2/documentation.htm>`_
38
39MIPS
40----
41
Daniel Sanders835e2842013-09-30 09:35:37 +0000[diff] [blame]42* `MIPS Processor Architecture <http://imgtec.com/mips/mips-architectures.asp>`_
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]43
44PowerPC
45-------
46
47IBM - Official manuals and docs
48^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
49
Bill Schmidt63c61e52013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]50* `Power Instruction Set Architecture, Versions 2.03 through 2.06 (authentication required, free sign-up) <https://www.power.org/technology-introduction/standards-specifications>`_
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]51
Bill Schmidt63c61e52013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]52* `PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide <http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF7785256996007558C6>`_
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]53
Bill Schmidtfd980722013-02-11 14:14:32 +0000[diff] [blame]54* `Intro to PowerPC Architecture <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-powarch/>`_
55
Bill Schmidt63c61e52013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]56* `PowerPC Processor Manuals (embedded) <http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/PowerPC>`_
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]57
Bill Schmidt63c61e52013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]58* `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>`_
59
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]60* `IBM AIX/5L for POWER Assembly Reference <http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixassem/alangref/alangreftfrm.htm>`_
61
62Other documents, collections, notes
63^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
64
65* `PowerPC ABI documents <http://penguinppc.org/dev/#library>`_
66* `PowerPC64 alignment of long doubles (from GCC) <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-09/msg00997.html>`_
67* `Long branch stubs for powerpc64-linux (from binutils) <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-04/msg00573.html>`_
68
Tom Stellard7a88b652013-07-12 18:14:40 +0000[diff] [blame]69R600
70----
71
72* `AMD R6xx shader ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/R600_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_
73* `AMD R7xx shader ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/R700-Family_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_
74* `AMD Evergreen shader ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/AMD_Evergreen-Family_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_
75* `AMD Cayman/Trinity shader ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/AMD_HD_6900_Series_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_
76* `AMD Southern Islands Series ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/12/AMD_Southern_Islands_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_
77* `AMD GPU Programming Guide <http://developer.amd.com/download/AMD_Accelerated_Parallel_Processing_OpenCL_Programming_Guide.pdf>`_
78* `AMD Compute Resources <http://developer.amd.com/tools/heterogeneous-computing/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/documentation/>`_
79
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]80SPARC
81-----
82
83* `SPARC resources <http://www.sparc.org/resource.htm>`_
84* `SPARC standards <http://www.sparc.org/standards.html>`_
85
Richard Sandiford5434f122013-05-31 09:14:54 +0000[diff] [blame]86SystemZ
87-------
88
89* `z/Architecture Principles of Operation (registration required, free sign-up) <http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg2b9de5f05a9d57819852571c500428f9a>`_
90
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]91X86
92---
93
94AMD - Official manuals and docs
95^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
96
97* `AMD processor manuals <http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_739,00.html>`_
98* `X86-64 ABI <http://www.x86-64.org/documentation>`_
99
100Intel - Official manuals and docs
101^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
102
Dmitri Gribenkodcd3a702012-12-13 20:02:11 +0000[diff] [blame]103* `Intel 64 and IA-32 manuals <http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html>`_
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]104* `Intel Itanium documentation <http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/documentation.htm?iid=ipp_srvr_proc_itanium2+techdocs>`_
105
106Other x86-specific information
107^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
108
Jean-Daniel Dupas5090b2d2012-11-12 23:43:34 +0000[diff] [blame]109* `Calling conventions for different C++ compilers and operating systems <http://www.agner.org/optimize/calling_conventions.pdf>`_
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]110
111Other relevant lists
112--------------------
113
114* `GCC reading list <http://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html>`_
115
116ABI
117===
118
Sean Silvac85756f2013-06-05 21:11:11 +0000[diff] [blame]119* `System V Application Binary Interface <http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/contents.html>`_
Sean Silvaf41d3172013-06-05 21:11:16 +0000[diff] [blame]120* `Itanium C++ ABI <http://mentorembedded.github.io/cxx-abi/>`_
Sean Silvac85756f2013-06-05 21:11:11 +0000[diff] [blame]121
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]122Linux
123-----
124
125* `PowerPC 64-bit ELF ABI Supplement <http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/>`_
Tim Northover72062f52013-01-31 12:12:40 +0000[diff] [blame]126* `Procedure Call Standard for the AArch64 Architecture <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0055a/IHI0055A_aapcs64.pdf>`_
127* `ELF for the ARM 64-bit Architecture (AArch64) <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0056a/IHI0056A_aaelf64.pdf>`_
Richard Sandiford5434f122013-05-31 09:14:54 +0000[diff] [blame]128* `System z ELF ABI Supplement <http://legacy.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/es/os/s390x/doc/lzsabi0.pdf>`_
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]129
130OS X
131----
132
133* `Mach-O Runtime Architecture <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/RuntimeArchitecture-date.html>`_
134* `Notes on Mach-O ABI <http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000044.php>`_
135
Rui Ueyama8b0f77b2013-06-07 20:30:27 +0000[diff] [blame]136Windows
137-------
138
139* `Microsoft PE/COFF Specification <http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/pecoff.mspx>`_
140
Justin Holewinski531ebc82013-03-30 16:41:14 +0000[diff] [blame]141NVPTX
142=====
143
144* `CUDA Documentation <http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/index.html>`_ includes the PTX
145 ISA and Driver API documentation
146
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]147Miscellaneous Resources
148=======================
149
150* `Executable File Format library <http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles/ExecutableFileFormats/>`_
151
152* `GCC prefetch project <http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/prefetch.html>`_ page has a
153 good survey of the prefetching capabilities of a variety of modern
154 processors.