Architecture & Platform Information for Compiler Writers¶

Note

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

Hardware ¶

AArch64 & ARM ¶

ARMv8-A Architecture Reference Manual (authentication required, free sign-up). This document covers both AArch64 and ARM instructions
ARMv7-M Architecture Reference Manual (authentication required, free sign-up). This covers the Thumb2-only microcontrollers
ARMv6-M Architecture Reference Manual (authentication required, free sign-up). This covers the Thumb1-only microcontrollers
ARM C Language Extensions
AArch32 ABI Addenda and Errata

Itanium (ia64)¶

Itanium documentation

Lanai ¶

Lanai Instruction Set Architecture

MIPS ¶

PowerPC ¶

IBM - Official manuals and docs ¶

Other documents, collections, notes ¶

AMDGPU ¶

Refer to User Guide for AMDGPU Backend for additional documentation.

RISC-V ¶

RISC-V User-Level ISA Specification

SPARC ¶

SystemZ ¶

z/Architecture Principles of Operation (registration required, free sign-up)

X86 ¶

XCore ¶

Hexagon ¶

Hexagon Programmer’s Reference Manuals and Hexagon ABI Specification (registration required, free sign-up)

Other relevant lists ¶

GCC reading list

ABI ¶

Linux ¶

OS X ¶

Windows ¶

Microsoft PE/COFF Specification

NVPTX ¶

CUDA Documentation includes the PTX ISA and Driver API documentation

Miscellaneous Resources ¶

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