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 44* `MIPS 64-bit ELF Object File Specification <http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals/4000/007-4658-001/pdf/007-4658-001.pdf>`_ 45 46PowerPC 47------- 48 49IBM - Official manuals and docs 50^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 51 52* `Power Instruction Set Architecture, Versions 2.03 through 2.06 (authentication required, free sign-up) <https://www.power.org/technology-introduction/standards-specifications>`_ 53 54* `PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide <http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF7785256996007558C6>`_ 55 56* `Intro to PowerPC Architecture <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-powarch/>`_ 57 58* `PowerPC Processor Manuals (embedded) <http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/PowerPC>`_ 59 60* `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>`_ 61 62* `IBM AIX/5L for POWER Assembly Reference <http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixassem/alangref/alangreftfrm.htm>`_ 63 64Other documents, collections, notes 65^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 66 67* `PowerPC ABI documents <http://penguinppc.org/dev/#library>`_ 68* `PowerPC64 alignment of long doubles (from GCC) <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-09/msg00997.html>`_ 69* `Long branch stubs for powerpc64-linux (from binutils) <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-04/msg00573.html>`_ 70 71R600 72---- 73 74* `AMD R6xx shader ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/R600_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_ 75* `AMD R7xx shader ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/R700-Family_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_ 76* `AMD Evergreen shader ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/AMD_Evergreen-Family_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_ 77* `AMD Cayman/Trinity shader ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/AMD_HD_6900_Series_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_ 78* `AMD Southern Islands Series ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/12/AMD_Southern_Islands_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_ 79* `AMD Sea Islands Series ISA <http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2013/07/AMD_Sea_Islands_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf>`_ 80* `AMD GPU Programming Guide <http://developer.amd.com/download/AMD_Accelerated_Parallel_Processing_OpenCL_Programming_Guide.pdf>`_ 81* `AMD Compute Resources <http://developer.amd.com/tools/heterogeneous-computing/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/documentation/>`_ 82 83SPARC 84----- 85 86* `SPARC standards <http://sparc.org/standards>`_ 87* `SPARC V9 ABI <http://sparc.org/standards/64.psabi.1.35.ps.Z>`_ 88* `SPARC V8 ABI <http://sparc.org/standards/psABI3rd.pdf>`_ 89 90SystemZ 91------- 92 93* `z/Architecture Principles of Operation (registration required, free sign-up) <http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg2b9de5f05a9d57819852571c500428f9a>`_ 94 95X86 96--- 97 98AMD - Official manuals and docs 99^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 100 101* `AMD processor manuals <http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_739,00.html>`_ 102* `X86-64 ABI <http://www.x86-64.org/documentation>`_ 103 104Intel - Official manuals and docs 105^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 106 107* `Intel 64 and IA-32 manuals <http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html>`_ 108* `Intel Itanium documentation <http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/documentation.htm?iid=ipp_srvr_proc_itanium2+techdocs>`_ 109 110Other x86-specific information 111^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 112 113* `Calling conventions for different C++ compilers and operating systems <http://www.agner.org/optimize/calling_conventions.pdf>`_ 114 115XCore 116----- 117 118* `The XMOS XS1 Architecture (ISA) <https://www.xmos.com/en/download/public/The-XMOS-XS1-Architecture%28X7879A%29.pdf>`_ 119* `Tools Development Guide (includes ABI) <https://www.xmos.com/download/public/Tools-Development-Guide%28X9114A%29.pdf>`_ 120 121Other relevant lists 122-------------------- 123 124* `GCC reading list <http://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html>`_ 125 126ABI 127=== 128 129* `System V Application Binary Interface <http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/contents.html>`_ 130* `Itanium C++ ABI <http://mentorembedded.github.io/cxx-abi/>`_ 131 132Linux 133----- 134 135* `PowerPC 64-bit ELF ABI Supplement <http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/>`_ 136* `Procedure Call Standard for the AArch64 Architecture <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0055a/IHI0055A_aapcs64.pdf>`_ 137* `ELF for the ARM Architecture <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0044e/IHI0044E_aaelf.pdf>`_ 138* `ELF for the ARM 64-bit Architecture (AArch64) <http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0056a/IHI0056A_aaelf64.pdf>`_ 139* `System z ELF ABI Supplement <http://legacy.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/es/os/s390x/doc/lzsabi0.pdf>`_ 140 141OS X 142---- 143 144* `Mach-O Runtime Architecture <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/RuntimeArchitecture-date.html>`_ 145* `Notes on Mach-O ABI <http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000044.php>`_ 146 147Windows 148------- 149 150* `Microsoft PE/COFF Specification <http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/pecoff.mspx>`_ 151 152NVPTX 153===== 154 155* `CUDA Documentation <http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/index.html>`_ includes the PTX 156 ISA and Driver API documentation 157 158Miscellaneous Resources 159======================= 160 161* `Executable File Format library <http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles/ExecutableFileFormats/>`_ 162 163* `GCC prefetch project <http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/prefetch.html>`_ page has a 164 good survey of the prefetching capabilities of a variety of modern 165 processors. 166