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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 Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]13Hardware
14========
15
Tim Northover762b6e72016-02-09 23:55:48 +0000[diff] [blame]16AArch64 & ARM
17-------------
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]18
Tim Northover762b6e72016-02-09 23:55:48 +0000[diff] [blame]19* `ARMv8-A Architecture Reference Manual <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0487a.h/index.html>`_ (authentication required, free sign-up). This document covers both AArch64 and ARM instructions
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]20
Jacques Pienaarbfa5ea02016-08-18 22:10:06 +0000[diff] [blame]21* `ARMv7-M Architecture Reference Manual <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0403e.b/index.html>`_ (authentication required, free sign-up). This covers the Thumb2-only microcontrollers
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]22
Jacques Pienaarbfa5ea02016-08-18 22:10:06 +0000[diff] [blame]23* `ARMv6-M Architecture Reference Manual <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0419c/index.html>`_ (authentication required, free sign-up). This covers the Thumb1-only microcontrollers
Joey Goulyb1b0dd82013-06-27 11:49:26 +0000[diff] [blame]24
Tim Northoverbebd2f42015-12-04 16:10:48 +0000[diff] [blame]25* `ARM C Language Extensions <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0053c/IHI0053C_acle_2_0.pdf>`_
Tim Northover85c19f52013-04-08 08:42:24 +0000[diff] [blame]26
Tim Northover762b6e72016-02-09 23:55:48 +0000[diff] [blame]27* AArch32 `ABI Addenda and Errata <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0045d/IHI0045D_ABI_addenda.pdf>`_
Tim Northover85c19f52013-04-08 08:42:24 +0000[diff] [blame]28
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]29Itanium (ia64)
30--------------
31
32* `Itanium documentation <http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium2/documentation.htm>`_
33
Jacques Pienaar2b257992016-08-18 21:25:17 +0000[diff] [blame]34Lanai
35-----
36
37* `Lanai Instruction Set Architecture <http://g.co/lanai/isa>`_
38
39
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]40MIPS
41----
42
Daniel Sandersc8de8cf2016-07-27 08:52:15 +0000[diff] [blame]43* `MIPS Processor Architecture <https://imgtec.com/mips/architectures/>`_
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]44
Simon Atanasyan4685c832015-01-25 16:20:30 +0000[diff] [blame]45* `MIPS 64-bit ELF Object File Specification <http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals/4000/007-4658-001/pdf/007-4658-001.pdf>`_
46
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]47PowerPC
48-------
49
50IBM - Official manuals and docs
51^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
52
Bill Schmidt995bc3f2013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]53* `Power Instruction Set Architecture, Versions 2.03 through 2.06 (authentication required, free sign-up) <https://www.power.org/technology-introduction/standards-specifications>`_
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]54
Bill Schmidt995bc3f2013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]55* `PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide <http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF7785256996007558C6>`_
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]56
Bill Schmidt8c0a8e52013-02-11 14:14:32 +0000[diff] [blame]57* `Intro to PowerPC Architecture <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-powarch/>`_
58
Bill Schmidt995bc3f2013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]59* `PowerPC Processor Manuals (embedded) <http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/PowerPC>`_
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]60
Bill Schmidt995bc3f2013-02-08 21:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]61* `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>`_
62
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]63* `IBM AIX/5L for POWER Assembly Reference <http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixassem/alangref/alangreftfrm.htm>`_
64
65Other documents, collections, notes
66^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
67
68* `PowerPC ABI documents <http://penguinppc.org/dev/#library>`_
69* `PowerPC64 alignment of long doubles (from GCC) <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-09/msg00997.html>`_
70* `Long branch stubs for powerpc64-linux (from binutils) <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-04/msg00573.html>`_
71
Tom Stellard45bb48e2015-06-13 03:28:10 +0000[diff] [blame]72AMDGPU
73------
Tom Stellard2d17f672013-07-12 18:14:40 +0000[diff] [blame]74
75* `AMD R6xx shader ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/R600_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_
76* `AMD R7xx shader ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/R700-Family_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_
77* `AMD Evergreen shader ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/AMD_Evergreen-Family_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_
78* `AMD Cayman/Trinity shader ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/AMD_HD_6900_Series_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_
79* `AMD Southern Islands Series ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/12/AMD_Southern_Islands_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_
Matt Arsenaultc8a82172014-10-06 18:31:09 +0000[diff] [blame]80* `AMD Sea Islands Series ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2013/07/AMD_Sea_Islands_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_
Nikolay Haustov96a56bd2016-09-20 09:04:51 +0000[diff] [blame]81* `AMD GCN3 Instruction Set Architecture <http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2013/12/AMD_GCN3_Instruction_Set_Architecture_rev1.1.pdf>`__
Tom Stellard2d17f672013-07-12 18:14:40 +0000[diff] [blame]82* `AMD GPU Programming Guide <http://developer.amd.com/download/AMD_Accelerated_Parallel_Processing_OpenCL_Programming_Guide.pdf>`_
83* `AMD Compute Resources <http://developer.amd.com/tools/heterogeneous-computing/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/documentation/>`_
Nikolay Haustov96a56bd2016-09-20 09:04:51 +0000[diff] [blame]84* `AMDGPU Compute Application Binary Interface <https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-ComputeABI-Doc/blob/master/AMDGPU-ABI.md>`__
Tom Stellard2d17f672013-07-12 18:14:40 +0000[diff] [blame]85
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]86SPARC
87-----
88
Rafael Espindola694b2652013-12-19 20:54:33 +0000[diff] [blame]89* `SPARC standards <http://sparc.org/standards>`_
90* `SPARC V9 ABI <http://sparc.org/standards/64.psabi.1.35.ps.Z>`_
91* `SPARC V8 ABI <http://sparc.org/standards/psABI3rd.pdf>`_
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]92
Richard Sandiford737b8802013-05-31 09:14:54 +0000[diff] [blame]93SystemZ
94-------
95
96* `z/Architecture Principles of Operation (registration required, free sign-up) <http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg2b9de5f05a9d57819852571c500428f9a>`_
97
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]98X86
99---
100
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]101* `AMD processor manuals <http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_739,00.html>`_
Dmitri Gribenko90fa0c62012-12-13 20:02:11 +0000[diff] [blame]102* `Intel 64 and IA-32 manuals <http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html>`_
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]103* `Intel Itanium documentation <http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/documentation.htm?iid=ipp_srvr_proc_itanium2+techdocs>`_
James Y Knight7c7e73b2016-04-12 21:54:57 +0000[diff] [blame]104* `X86 and X86-64 SysV psABI <https://github.com/hjl-tools/x86-psABI/wiki/X86-psABI>`_
Jean-Daniel Dupas84705092012-11-12 23:43:34 +0000[diff] [blame]105* `Calling conventions for different C++ compilers and operating systems <http://www.agner.org/optimize/calling_conventions.pdf>`_
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]106
Richard Osbornefdbd8e02014-03-14 15:53:50 +0000[diff] [blame]107XCore
108-----
109
110* `The XMOS XS1 Architecture (ISA) <https://www.xmos.com/en/download/public/The-XMOS-XS1-Architecture%28X7879A%29.pdf>`_
Alp Toker16f98b22014-04-09 14:47:27 +0000[diff] [blame]111* `Tools Development Guide (includes ABI) <https://www.xmos.com/download/public/Tools-Development-Guide%28X9114A%29.pdf>`_
Richard Osbornefdbd8e02014-03-14 15:53:50 +0000[diff] [blame]112
Krzysztof Parzyszek79a4fbc2016-07-26 18:40:25 +0000[diff] [blame]113Hexagon
114-------
115
116* `Hexagon Programmer's Reference Manuals and Hexagon ABI Specification (registration required, free sign-up) <https://developer.qualcomm.com/software/hexagon-dsp-sdk/tools>`_
117
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]118Other relevant lists
119--------------------
120
121* `GCC reading list <http://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html>`_
122
123ABI
124===
125
Sean Silvace4bb3c2013-06-05 21:11:11 +0000[diff] [blame]126* `System V Application Binary Interface <http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/contents.html>`_
Sean Silva69fd25782013-06-05 21:11:16 +0000[diff] [blame]127* `Itanium C++ ABI <http://mentorembedded.github.io/cxx-abi/>`_
Sean Silvace4bb3c2013-06-05 21:11:11 +0000[diff] [blame]128
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]129Linux
130-----
131
James Y Knight7c7e73b2016-04-12 21:54:57 +0000[diff] [blame]132* `Linux extensions to gabi <https://github.com/hjl-tools/linux-abi/wiki/Linux-Extensions-to-gABI>`_
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]133* `PowerPC 64-bit ELF ABI Supplement <http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/>`_
Tim Northovere0e3aef2013-01-31 12:12:40 +0000[diff] [blame]134* `Procedure Call Standard for the AArch64 Architecture <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0055a/IHI0055A_aapcs64.pdf>`_
Sean Silva75c71852013-11-04 19:43:36 +0000[diff] [blame]135* `ELF for the ARM Architecture <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0044e/IHI0044E_aaelf.pdf>`_
Tim Northovere0e3aef2013-01-31 12:12:40 +0000[diff] [blame]136* `ELF for the ARM 64-bit Architecture (AArch64) <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0056a/IHI0056A_aaelf64.pdf>`_
Richard Sandiford737b8802013-05-31 09:14:54 +0000[diff] [blame]137* `System z ELF ABI Supplement <http://legacy.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/es/os/s390x/doc/lzsabi0.pdf>`_
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]138
139OS X
140----
141
142* `Mach-O Runtime Architecture <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/RuntimeArchitecture-date.html>`_
143* `Notes on Mach-O ABI <http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000044.php>`_
144
Rui Ueyama1b0a9492013-06-07 20:30:27 +0000[diff] [blame]145Windows
146-------
147
148* `Microsoft PE/COFF Specification <http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/pecoff.mspx>`_
149
Justin Holewinski45df8822013-03-30 16:41:14 +0000[diff] [blame]150NVPTX
151=====
152
153* `CUDA Documentation <http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/index.html>`_ includes the PTX
154 ISA and Driver API documentation
155
Bill Wendling668043f2012-10-07 04:34:10 +0000[diff] [blame]156Miscellaneous Resources
157=======================
158
159* `Executable File Format library <http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles/ExecutableFileFormats/>`_
160
161* `GCC prefetch project <http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/prefetch.html>`_ page has a
162 good survey of the prefetching capabilities of a variety of modern
163 processors.