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<h1>Architecture & Platform Information for Compiler Writers<a class="headerlink" href="#architecture-platform-information-for-compiler-writers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#hardware" id="id3">Hardware</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#arm" id="id4">ARM</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#aarch64" id="id5">AArch64</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#itanium-ia64" id="id6">Itanium (ia64)</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#mips" id="id7">MIPS</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#powerpc" id="id8">PowerPC</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#ibm-official-manuals-and-docs" id="id9">IBM - Official manuals and docs</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#other-documents-collections-notes" id="id10">Other documents, collections, notes</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#amdgpu" id="id11">AMDGPU</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#sparc" id="id12">SPARC</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#systemz" id="id13">SystemZ</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#x86" id="id14">X86</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#amd-official-manuals-and-docs" id="id15">AMD - Official manuals and docs</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#intel-official-manuals-and-docs" id="id16">Intel - Official manuals and docs</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#other-x86-specific-information" id="id17">Other x86-specific information</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#xcore" id="id18">XCore</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#other-relevant-lists" id="id19">Other relevant lists</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#id2" id="id20">ABI</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#linux" id="id21">Linux</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#os-x" id="id22">OS X</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#windows" id="id23">Windows</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#nvptx" id="id24">NVPTX</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#miscellaneous-resources" id="id25">Miscellaneous Resources</a></li>
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<p class="last">This document is a work-in-progress. Additions and clarifications are
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Hardware</a><a class="headerlink" href="#hardware" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="arm">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">ARM</a><a class="headerlink" href="#arm" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.arm.com/documentation/">ARM documentation</a> (<a class="reference external" href="http://www.arm.com/documentation/ARMProcessor_Cores/">Processor Cores</a> Cores)</li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/ABI.html">ABI</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0045d/IHI0045D_ABI_addenda.pdf">ABI Addenda and Errata</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0053a/IHI0053A_acle.pdf">ARM C Language Extensions</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="aarch64">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">AArch64</a><a class="headerlink" href="#aarch64" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.genc010197a/index.html">ARMv8 Instruction Set Overview</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0053a/IHI0053A_acle.pdf">ARM C Language Extensions</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="itanium-ia64">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">Itanium (ia64)</a><a class="headerlink" href="#itanium-ia64" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium2/documentation.htm">Itanium documentation</a></li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="mips">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7">MIPS</a><a class="headerlink" href="#mips" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://imgtec.com/mips/mips-architectures.asp">MIPS Processor Architecture</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals/4000/007-4658-001/pdf/007-4658-001.pdf">MIPS 64-bit ELF Object File Specification</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="powerpc">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8">PowerPC</a><a class="headerlink" href="#powerpc" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<div class="section" id="ibm-official-manuals-and-docs">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9">IBM - Official manuals and docs</a><a class="headerlink" href="#ibm-official-manuals-and-docs" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="https://www.power.org/technology-introduction/standards-specifications">Power Instruction Set Architecture, Versions 2.03 through 2.06 (authentication required, free sign-up)</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF7785256996007558C6">PowerPC Compiler Writer’s Guide</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-powarch/">Intro to PowerPC Architecture</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/PowerPC">PowerPC Processor Manuals (embedded)</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://www.power.org/documentation/?document_company=105&document_category=all&publish_year=all&grid_order=DESC&grid_sort=title">Various IBM specifications and white papers</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixassem/alangref/alangreftfrm.htm">IBM AIX/5L for POWER Assembly Reference</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="other-documents-collections-notes">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10">Other documents, collections, notes</a><a class="headerlink" href="#other-documents-collections-notes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="http://penguinppc.org/dev/#library">PowerPC ABI documents</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-09/msg00997.html">PowerPC64 alignment of long doubles (from GCC)</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-04/msg00573.html">Long branch stubs for powerpc64-linux (from binutils)</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="amdgpu">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11">AMDGPU</a><a class="headerlink" href="#amdgpu" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/R600_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf">AMD R6xx shader ISA</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/R700-Family_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf">AMD R7xx shader ISA</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/AMD_Evergreen-Family_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf">AMD Evergreen shader ISA</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/AMD_HD_6900_Series_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf">AMD Cayman/Trinity shader ISA</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/12/AMD_Southern_Islands_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf">AMD Southern Islands Series ISA</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2013/07/AMD_Sea_Islands_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf">AMD Sea Islands Series ISA</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://developer.amd.com/download/AMD_Accelerated_Parallel_Processing_OpenCL_Programming_Guide.pdf">AMD GPU Programming Guide</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://developer.amd.com/tools/heterogeneous-computing/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/documentation/">AMD Compute Resources</a></li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="sparc">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id12">SPARC</a><a class="headerlink" href="#sparc" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://sparc.org/standards">SPARC standards</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://sparc.org/standards/64.psabi.1.35.ps.Z">SPARC V9 ABI</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://sparc.org/standards/psABI3rd.pdf">SPARC V8 ABI</a></li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="systemz">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id13">SystemZ</a><a class="headerlink" href="#systemz" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg2b9de5f05a9d57819852571c500428f9a">z/Architecture Principles of Operation (registration required, free sign-up)</a></li>
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<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14">X86</a><a class="headerlink" href="#x86" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15">AMD - Official manuals and docs</a><a class="headerlink" href="#amd-official-manuals-and-docs" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_739,00.html">AMD processor manuals</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.x86-64.org/documentation">X86-64 ABI</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="intel-official-manuals-and-docs">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id16">Intel - Official manuals and docs</a><a class="headerlink" href="#intel-official-manuals-and-docs" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html">Intel 64 and IA-32 manuals</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/documentation.htm?iid=ipp_srvr_proc_itanium2+techdocs">Intel Itanium documentation</a></li>
</ul>
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<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id17">Other x86-specific information</a><a class="headerlink" href="#other-x86-specific-information" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.agner.org/optimize/calling_conventions.pdf">Calling conventions for different C++ compilers and operating systems</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="xcore">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id18">XCore</a><a class="headerlink" href="#xcore" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://www.xmos.com/en/download/public/The-XMOS-XS1-Architecture%28X7879A%29.pdf">The XMOS XS1 Architecture (ISA)</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://www.xmos.com/download/public/Tools-Development-Guide%28X9114A%29.pdf">Tools Development Guide (includes ABI)</a></li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="other-relevant-lists">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id19">Other relevant lists</a><a class="headerlink" href="#other-relevant-lists" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html">GCC reading list</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="section" id="id2">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id20">ABI</a><a class="headerlink" href="#id2" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/contents.html">System V Application Binary Interface</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://mentorembedded.github.io/cxx-abi/">Itanium C++ ABI</a></li>
</ul>
<div class="section" id="linux">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id21">Linux</a><a class="headerlink" href="#linux" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/">PowerPC 64-bit ELF ABI Supplement</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0055a/IHI0055A_aapcs64.pdf">Procedure Call Standard for the AArch64 Architecture</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0044e/IHI0044E_aaelf.pdf">ELF for the ARM Architecture</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0056a/IHI0056A_aaelf64.pdf">ELF for the ARM 64-bit Architecture (AArch64)</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://legacy.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/es/os/s390x/doc/lzsabi0.pdf">System z ELF ABI Supplement</a></li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="os-x">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id22">OS X</a><a class="headerlink" href="#os-x" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/RuntimeArchitecture-date.html">Mach-O Runtime Architecture</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000044.php">Notes on Mach-O ABI</a></li>
</ul>
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<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id23">Windows</a><a class="headerlink" href="#windows" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/pecoff.mspx">Microsoft PE/COFF Specification</a></li>
</ul>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id24">NVPTX</a><a class="headerlink" href="#nvptx" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/index.html">CUDA Documentation</a> includes the PTX
ISA and Driver API documentation</li>
</ul>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id25">Miscellaneous Resources</a><a class="headerlink" href="#miscellaneous-resources" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles/ExecutableFileFormats/">Executable File Format library</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/prefetch.html">GCC prefetch project</a> page has a
good survey of the prefetching capabilities of a variety of modern
processors.</li>
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