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 16AArch64 & ARM 17------------- 18 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 20 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 22 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 24 25* `ARM C Language Extensions <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0053c/IHI0053C_acle_2_0.pdf>`_ 26 27* AArch32 `ABI Addenda and Errata <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0045d/IHI0045D_ABI_addenda.pdf>`_ 28 29Itanium (ia64) 30-------------- 31 32* `Itanium documentation <http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium2/documentation.htm>`_ 33 34Lanai 35----- 36 37* `Lanai Instruction Set Architecture <http://g.co/lanai/isa>`_ 38 39 40MIPS 41---- 42 43* `MIPS Processor Architecture <https://www.mips.com/products/>`_ 44 45* `MIPS 64-bit ELF Object File Specification <http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals/4000/007-4658-001/pdf/007-4658-001.pdf>`_ 46 47PowerPC 48------- 49 50IBM - Official manuals and docs 51^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 52 53* `Power Instruction Set Architecture, Versions 2.03 through 2.06 (authentication required, free sign-up) <https://www.power.org/technology-introduction/standards-specifications>`_ 54 55* `PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide <http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF7785256996007558C6>`_ 56 57* `Intro to PowerPC Architecture <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-powarch/>`_ 58 59* `PowerPC Processor Manuals (embedded) <http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/PowerPC>`_ 60 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 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 72AMDGPU 73------ 74 75Refer to :doc:`AMDGPUUsage` for additional documentation. 76 77RISC-V 78------ 79* `RISC-V User-Level ISA Specification <https://riscv.org/specifications/>`_ 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 96* `AMD processor manuals <http://developer.amd.com/resources/developer-guides-manuals/>`_ 97* `Intel 64 and IA-32 manuals <http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html>`_ 98* `Intel Itanium documentation <http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/documentation.htm?iid=ipp_srvr_proc_itanium2+techdocs>`_ 99* `X86 and X86-64 SysV psABI <https://github.com/hjl-tools/x86-psABI/wiki/X86-psABI>`_ 100* `Calling conventions for different C++ compilers and operating systems <http://www.agner.org/optimize/calling_conventions.pdf>`_ 101 102XCore 103----- 104 105* `The XMOS XS1 Architecture (ISA) <https://www.xmos.com/en/download/public/The-XMOS-XS1-Architecture%28X7879A%29.pdf>`_ 106* `Tools Development Guide (includes ABI) <https://www.xmos.com/download/public/Tools-Development-Guide%28X9114A%29.pdf>`_ 107 108Hexagon 109------- 110 111* `Hexagon Programmer's Reference Manuals and Hexagon ABI Specification (registration required, free sign-up) <https://developer.qualcomm.com/software/hexagon-dsp-sdk/tools>`_ 112 113Other relevant lists 114-------------------- 115 116* `GCC reading list <http://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html>`_ 117 118ABI 119=== 120 121* `System V Application Binary Interface <http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/contents.html>`_ 122* `Itanium C++ ABI <http://itanium-cxx-abi.github.io/cxx-abi/>`_ 123 124Linux 125----- 126 127* `Linux extensions to gabi <https://github.com/hjl-tools/linux-abi/wiki/Linux-Extensions-to-gABI>`_ 128* `PowerPC 64-bit ELF ABI Supplement <http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/>`_ 129* `Procedure Call Standard for the AArch64 Architecture <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0055a/IHI0055A_aapcs64.pdf>`_ 130* `ELF for the ARM Architecture <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0044e/IHI0044E_aaelf.pdf>`_ 131* `ELF for the ARM 64-bit Architecture (AArch64) <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0056a/IHI0056A_aaelf64.pdf>`_ 132* `System z ELF ABI Supplement <http://legacy.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/es/os/s390x/doc/lzsabi0.pdf>`_ 133 134OS X 135---- 136 137* `Mach-O Runtime Architecture <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/RuntimeArchitecture-date.html>`_ 138* `Notes on Mach-O ABI <http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000044.php>`_ 139 140Windows 141------- 142 143* `Microsoft PE/COFF Specification <http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/pecoff.mspx>`_ 144 145NVPTX 146===== 147 148* `CUDA Documentation <http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/index.html>`_ includes the PTX 149 ISA and Driver API documentation 150 151Miscellaneous Resources 152======================= 153 154* `Executable File Format library <http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles/ExecutableFileFormats/>`_ 155 156* `GCC prefetch project <http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/prefetch.html>`_ page has a 157 good survey of the prefetching capabilities of a variety of modern 158 processors. 159