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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
Tim Northoverc9662852013-04-08 08:42:24 +0000[diff] [blame]23* `ARM C Language Extensions <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0053a/IHI0053A_acle.pdf>`_
24
Tim Northover72062f52013-01-31 12:12:40 +0000[diff] [blame]25AArch64
26-------
27
28* `ARMv8 Instruction Set Overview <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.genc010197a/index.html>`_
29
Tim Northoverc9662852013-04-08 08:42:24 +0000[diff] [blame]30* `ARM C Language Extensions <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0053a/IHI0053A_acle.pdf>`_
31
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]32Itanium (ia64)
33--------------
34
35* `Itanium documentation <http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium2/documentation.htm>`_
36
37MIPS
38----
39
40* `MIPS Processor Architecture <http://mips.com/content/Documentation/MIPSDocumentation/ProcessorArchitecture/doclibrary>`_
41
42PowerPC
43-------
44
45IBM - Official manuals and docs
46^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
47
Bill Schmidt63c61e52013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]48* `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]49
Bill Schmidt63c61e52013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]50* `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]51
Bill Schmidtfd980722013-02-11 14:14:32 +0000[diff] [blame]52* `Intro to PowerPC Architecture <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-powarch/>`_
53
Bill Schmidt63c61e52013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]54* `PowerPC Processor Manuals (embedded) <http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/PowerPC>`_
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]55
Bill Schmidt63c61e52013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]56* `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>`_
57
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]58* `IBM AIX/5L for POWER Assembly Reference <http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixassem/alangref/alangreftfrm.htm>`_
59
60Other documents, collections, notes
61^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
62
63* `PowerPC ABI documents <http://penguinppc.org/dev/#library>`_
64* `PowerPC64 alignment of long doubles (from GCC) <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-09/msg00997.html>`_
65* `Long branch stubs for powerpc64-linux (from binutils) <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-04/msg00573.html>`_
66
67SPARC
68-----
69
70* `SPARC resources <http://www.sparc.org/resource.htm>`_
71* `SPARC standards <http://www.sparc.org/standards.html>`_
72
73X86
74---
75
76AMD - Official manuals and docs
77^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
78
79* `AMD processor manuals <http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_739,00.html>`_
80* `X86-64 ABI <http://www.x86-64.org/documentation>`_
81
82Intel - Official manuals and docs
83^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
84
Dmitri Gribenkodcd3a702012-12-13 20:02:11 +0000[diff] [blame]85* `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]86* `Intel Itanium documentation <http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/documentation.htm?iid=ipp_srvr_proc_itanium2+techdocs>`_
87
88Other x86-specific information
89^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
90
Jean-Daniel Dupas5090b2d2012-11-12 23:43:34 +0000[diff] [blame]91* `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]92
93Other relevant lists
94--------------------
95
96* `GCC reading list <http://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html>`_
97
98ABI
99===
100
101Linux
102-----
103
104* `PowerPC 64-bit ELF ABI Supplement <http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/>`_
Tim Northover72062f52013-01-31 12:12:40 +0000[diff] [blame]105* `Procedure Call Standard for the AArch64 Architecture <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0055a/IHI0055A_aapcs64.pdf>`_
106* `ELF for the ARM 64-bit Architecture (AArch64) <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0056a/IHI0056A_aaelf64.pdf>`_
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]107
108OS X
109----
110
111* `Mach-O Runtime Architecture <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/RuntimeArchitecture-date.html>`_
112* `Notes on Mach-O ABI <http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000044.php>`_
113
Justin Holewinski531ebc82013-03-30 16:41:14 +0000[diff] [blame]114NVPTX
115=====
116
117* `CUDA Documentation <http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/index.html>`_ includes the PTX
118 ISA and Driver API documentation
119
Bill Wendling53960a62012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]120Miscellaneous Resources
121=======================
122
123* `Executable File Format library <http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles/ExecutableFileFormats/>`_
124
125* `GCC prefetch project <http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/prefetch.html>`_ page has a
126 good survey of the prefetching capabilities of a variety of modern
127 processors.