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  13   Architecture/platform information for compiler writers
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  17   <p>Note: This document is a work-in-progress.  Additions and clarifications
  18   are welcome.</p>
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  21 <ol>
  22   <li><a href="#hw">Hardware</a>
  23   <ol>
  24     <li><a href="#alpha">Alpha</a></li>
  25     <li><a href="#arm">ARM</a></li>
  26     <li><a href="#ia64">Itanium</a></li>
  27     <li><a href="#mips">MIPS</a></li>
  28     <li><a href="#ppc">PowerPC</a></li>
  29     <li><a href="#sparc">SPARC</a></li>
  30     <li><a href="#x86">X86</a></li>
  31     <li><a href="#other">Other lists</a></li>
  32   </ol></li>
  33   <li><a href="#abi">Application Binary Interface (ABI)</a>
  34   <ol>
  35     <li><a href="#linux">Linux</a></li>
  36     <li><a href="#osx">OS X</a></li>
  37   </ol></li>
  38   <li><a href="#misc">Miscellaneous resources</a></li>
  39 </ol>
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  42   <p>Compiled by <a href="http://misha.brukman.net">Misha Brukman</a></p>
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  46 <h2><a name="hw">Hardware</a></h2>
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  51 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
  52 <h3><a name="alpha">Alpha</a></h3>
  53
  54 <div>
  55 <ul>
  56 <li><a
  57 href="http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/info/semiconductor/literature/dsc-library.html">Alpha manuals</a>
  58 </li>
  59 </ul>
  60 </div>
  61
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  63 <h3><a name="arm">ARM</a></h3>
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  65 <div>
  66 <ul>
  67 <li><a href="http://www.arm.com/documentation/">ARM documentation</a>
  68 (<a href="http://www.arm.com/documentation/ARMProcessor_Cores/">Processor
  69 Cores</a>)</li>
  70 <li><a href="http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/ABI.html">ABI</a></li>
  71 </ul>
  72 </div>
  73
  74 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
  75 <h3><a name="ia64">Itanium (ia64)</a></h3>
  76
  77 <div>
  78 <ul>
  79 <li><a
  80 href="http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium2/documentation.htm">Itanium documentation</a>
  81 </li>
  82 </ul>
  83 </div>
  84
  85 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
  86 <h3><a name="mips">MIPS</a></h3>
  87
  88 <div>
  89 <ul>
  90 <li><a
  91 href="http://mips.com/content/Documentation/MIPSDocumentation/ProcessorArchitecture/doclibrary">MIPS
  92 Processor Architecture</a></li>
  93 </ul>
  94 </div>
  95
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  97 <h3><a name="ppc">PowerPC</a></h3>
  98
  99 <div>
 100
 101 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 102 <h4>IBM - Official manuals and docs</h4>
 103
 104 <div>
 105
 106 <ul>
 107 <li><a
 108 href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/archguide.html">PowerPC
 109 Architecture Book</a>
 110 <ul>
 111   <li>Book I: <a
 112   href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/pdfs/archpub1.pdf">PowerPC
 113   User Instruction Set Architecture</a></li>
 114   <li>Book II: <a
 115   href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/pdfs/archpub2.pdf">PowerPC
 116   Virtual Environment Architecture</a></li>
 117   <li>Book III: <a
 118   href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/pdfs/archpub3.pdf">PowerPC
 119   Operating Environment Architecture</a></li>
 120 </ul></li>
 121 <li><a
 122 href="http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF7785256996007558C6">PowerPC
 123 Compiler Writer's Guide</a></li>
 124 <li><A
 125 href="http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/PowerPC">PowerPC
 126 Processor Manuals</a></li>
 127 <li><a
 128 href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-powarch/">Intro to
 129 PowerPC architecture</a></li>
 130 <li><a 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>
 131 </ul>
 132
 133 </div>
 134
 135 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 136 <h4>Other documents, collections, notes</h4>
 137
 138 <div>
 139
 140 <ul>
 141 <li><a href="http://penguinppc.org/dev/#library">PowerPC ABI documents</a></li>
 142 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-09/msg00997.html">PowerPC64
 143 alignment of long doubles (from GCC)</a></li>
 144 <li><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-04/msg00573.html">Long
 145 branch stubs for powerpc64-linux (from binutils)</a></li>
 146 </ul>
 147
 148 </div>
 149
 150 </div>
 151
 152 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
 153 <h3><a name="sparc">SPARC</a></h3>
 154
 155 <div>
 156
 157 <ul>
 158 <li><a href="http://www.sparc.org/resource.htm">SPARC resources</a></li>
 159 <li><a href="http://www.sparc.org/standards.html">SPARC standards</a></li>
 160 </ul>
 161
 162 </div>
 163
 164 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
 165 <h3><a name="x86">X86</a></h3>
 166
 167 <div>
 168
 169 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 170 <h4>AMD - Official manuals and docs</h4>
 171
 172 <div>
 173 <ul>
 174 <li><a
 175 href="http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_739,00.html">AMD processor manuals</a></li>
 176 <li><a href="http://www.x86-64.org/documentation">X86-64 ABI</a></li>
 177 </ul>
 178 </div>
 179
 180 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 181 <h4>Intel - Official manuals and docs</h4>
 182
 183 <div>
 184 <ul>
 185 <li><a
 186 href="http://developer.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/index_new.htm">IA-32
 187 manuals</a></li>
 188 <li><a
 189 href="http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/documentation.htm?iid=ipp_srvr_proc_itanium2+techdocs">Intel
 190 Itanium documentation</a></li>
 191 </ul>
 192 </div>
 193
 194 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 195 <h4>Other x86-specific information</h4>
 196
 197 <div>
 198 <ul>
 199 <li><a href="http://www.agner.org/assem/calling_conventions.pdf">Calling
 200 conventions for different C++ compilers and operating systems</a></li>
 201 </ul>
 202 </div>
 203
 204 </div>
 205
 206 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
 207 <h3><a name="other">Other relevant lists</a></h3>
 208
 209 <div>
 210
 211 <ul>
 212 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html">GCC reading list</a></li>
 213 </ul>
 214
 215 </div>
 216
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 220 <h2><a name="abi">ABI</a></h2>
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 226 <h3><a name="linux">Linux</a></h3>
 227
 228 <div>
 229 <ol>
 230 <li><a href="http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/">PowerPC 64-bit ELF ABI
 231 Supplement</a></li>
 232 </ol>
 233 </div>
 234
 235 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
 236 <h3><a name="osx">OS X</a></h3>
 237
 238 <div>
 239 <ol>
 240 <li><a
 241 href="http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/RuntimeArchitecture-date.html">Mach-O
 242 Runtime Architecture</a></li>
 243 <li><a href="http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000044.php">Notes on Mach-O
 244 ABI</a></li>
 245 </ol>
 246
 247 </div>
 248
 249 </div>
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 252 <h2><a name="misc">Miscellaneous resources</a></h2>
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 254
 255 <ul>
 256 <li><a
 257 href="http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles/ExecutableFileFormats/">Executable
 258 File Format library</a></li>
 259 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/prefetch.html">GCC prefetch project</a>
 260 page has a good survey of the prefetching capabilities of a variety of modern
 261 processors.</li>
 262 </ul>
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