1======================================================== 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 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 21* `ABI <http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/ABI.html>`_ 22 23* `ABI Addenda and Errata <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0045d/IHI0045D_ABI_addenda.pdf>`_ 24 25* `ARM C Language Extensions <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0053a/IHI0053A_acle.pdf>`_ 26 27AArch64 28------- 29 30* `ARMv8 Instruction Set Overview <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.genc010197a/index.html>`_ 31 32* `ARM C Language Extensions <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0053a/IHI0053A_acle.pdf>`_ 33 34Itanium (ia64) 35-------------- 36 37* `Itanium documentation <http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium2/documentation.htm>`_ 38 39MIPS 40---- 41 42* `MIPS Processor Architecture <http://imgtec.com/mips/mips-architectures.asp>`_ 43 44PowerPC 45------- 46 47IBM - Official manuals and docs 48^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 49 50* `Power Instruction Set Architecture, Versions 2.03 through 2.06 (authentication required, free sign-up) <https://www.power.org/technology-introduction/standards-specifications>`_ 51 52* `PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide <http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF7785256996007558C6>`_ 53 54* `Intro to PowerPC Architecture <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-powarch/>`_ 55 56* `PowerPC Processor Manuals (embedded) <http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/PowerPC>`_ 57 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 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 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 Sea Islands Series ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2013/07/AMD_Sea_Islands_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_ 78* `AMD GPU Programming Guide <http://developer.amd.com/download/AMD_Accelerated_Parallel_Processing_OpenCL_Programming_Guide.pdf>`_ 79* `AMD Compute Resources <http://developer.amd.com/tools/heterogeneous-computing/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/documentation/>`_ 80 81SPARC 82----- 83 84* `SPARC standards <http://sparc.org/standards>`_ 85* `SPARC V9 ABI <http://sparc.org/standards/64.psabi.1.35.ps.Z>`_ 86* `SPARC V8 ABI <http://sparc.org/standards/psABI3rd.pdf>`_ 87 88SystemZ 89------- 90 91* `z/Architecture Principles of Operation (registration required, free sign-up) <http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg2b9de5f05a9d57819852571c500428f9a>`_ 92 93X86 94--- 95 96AMD - Official manuals and docs 97^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 98 99* `AMD processor manuals <http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_739,00.html>`_ 100* `X86-64 ABI <http://www.x86-64.org/documentation>`_ 101 102Intel - Official manuals and docs 103^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 104 105* `Intel 64 and IA-32 manuals <http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html>`_ 106* `Intel Itanium documentation <http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/documentation.htm?iid=ipp_srvr_proc_itanium2+techdocs>`_ 107 108Other x86-specific information 109^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 110 111* `Calling conventions for different C++ compilers and operating systems <http://www.agner.org/optimize/calling_conventions.pdf>`_ 112 113XCore 114----- 115 116* `The XMOS XS1 Architecture (ISA) <https://www.xmos.com/en/download/public/The-XMOS-XS1-Architecture%28X7879A%29.pdf>`_ 117* `Tools Development Guide (includes ABI) <https://www.xmos.com/download/public/Tools-Development-Guide%28X9114A%29.pdf>`_ 118 119Other relevant lists 120-------------------- 121 122* `GCC reading list <http://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html>`_ 123 124ABI 125=== 126 127* `System V Application Binary Interface <http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/contents.html>`_ 128* `Itanium C++ ABI <http://mentorembedded.github.io/cxx-abi/>`_ 129 130Linux 131----- 132 133* `PowerPC 64-bit ELF ABI Supplement <http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/>`_ 134* `Procedure Call Standard for the AArch64 Architecture <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0055a/IHI0055A_aapcs64.pdf>`_ 135* `ELF for the ARM Architecture <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0044e/IHI0044E_aaelf.pdf>`_ 136* `ELF for the ARM 64-bit Architecture (AArch64) <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0056a/IHI0056A_aaelf64.pdf>`_ 137* `System z ELF ABI Supplement <http://legacy.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/es/os/s390x/doc/lzsabi0.pdf>`_ 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 145Windows 146------- 147 148* `Microsoft PE/COFF Specification <http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/pecoff.mspx>`_ 149 150NVPTX 151===== 152 153* `CUDA Documentation <http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/index.html>`_ includes the PTX 154 ISA and Driver API documentation 155 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. 164