Architecture & Platform Information for Compiler Writers

Note

This document is a work-in-progress. Additions and clarifications are welcome.

Compiled by Misha Brukman.

Hardware

ARM

• ARM documentation (Processor Cores Cores)
• ABI

Itanium (ia64)

• Itanium documentation

MIPS

• MIPS Processor Architecture

PowerPC

IBM - Official manuals and docs

• PowerPC Architecture Book
  • Book I: PowerPC User Instruction Set Architecture
  • Book II: PowerPC Virtual Environment Architecture
  • Book III: PowerPC Operating Environment Architecture
• PowerPC Compiler Writer’s Guide
• PowerPC Processor Manuals
• Intro to PowerPC Architecture
• IBM AIX/5L for POWER Assembly Reference

Other documents, collections, notes

• PowerPC ABI documents
• PowerPC64 alignment of long doubles (from GCC)
• Long branch stubs for powerpc64-linux (from binutils)

SPARC

• SPARC resources
• SPARC standards

X86

AMD - Official manuals and docs

• AMD processor manuals
• X86-64 ABI

Intel - Official manuals and docs

• IA-32 manuals
• Intel Itanium documentation

Other x86-specific information

• Calling conventions for different C++ compilers and operating systems

Other relevant lists

• GCC reading list

ABI

Linux

• PowerPC 64-bit ELF ABI Supplement

OS X

• Mach-O Runtime Architecture
• Notes on Mach-O ABI

Miscellaneous Resources

• Executable File Format library
• GCC prefetch project page has a good survey of the prefetching capabilities of a variety of modern processors.