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17 <p>Note: This document is a work-in-progress. Additions and clarifications
22 <li><a href=
"#hw">Hardware
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24 <li><a href=
"#alpha">Alpha
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25 <li><a href=
"#arm">ARM
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26 <li><a href=
"#ia64">Itanium
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27 <li><a href=
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28 <li><a href=
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29 <li><a href=
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30 <li><a href=
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31 <li><a href=
"#other">Other lists
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33 <li><a href=
"#abi">Application Binary Interface (ABI)
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35 <li><a href=
"#linux">Linux
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36 <li><a href=
"#osx">OS X
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38 <li><a href=
"#misc">Miscellaneous resources
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42 <p>Compiled by
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46 <h2><a name=
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52 <h3><a name=
"alpha">Alpha
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57 href=
"http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/info/semiconductor/literature/dsc-library.html">Alpha manuals
</a>
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63 <h3><a name=
"arm">ARM
</a></h3>
67 <li><a href=
"http://www.arm.com/documentation/">ARM documentation
</a>
68 (
<a href=
"http://www.arm.com/documentation/ARMProcessor_Cores/">Processor
70 <li><a href=
"http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/ABI.html">ABI
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75 <h3><a name=
"ia64">Itanium (ia64)
</a></h3>
80 href=
"http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium2/documentation.htm">Itanium documentation
</a>
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86 <h3><a name=
"mips">MIPS
</a></h3>
91 href=
"http://mips.com/content/Documentation/MIPSDocumentation/ProcessorArchitecture/doclibrary">MIPS
92 Processor Architecture
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97 <h3><a name=
"ppc">PowerPC
</a></h3>
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102 <h4>IBM - Official manuals and docs
</h4>
108 href=
"http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/archguide.html">PowerPC
109 Architecture Book
</a>
112 href=
"http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/pdfs/archpub1.pdf">PowerPC
113 User Instruction Set Architecture
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115 href=
"http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/pdfs/archpub2.pdf">PowerPC
116 Virtual Environment Architecture
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118 href=
"http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/pdfs/archpub3.pdf">PowerPC
119 Operating Environment Architecture
</a></li>
122 href=
"http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF7785256996007558C6">PowerPC
123 Compiler Writer's Guide
</a></li>
125 href=
"http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/PowerPC">PowerPC
126 Processor Manuals
</a></li>
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>
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136 <h4>Other documents, collections, notes
</h4>
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>
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153 <h3><a name=
"sparc">SPARC
</a></h3>
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>
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165 <h3><a name=
"x86">X86
</a></h3>
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170 <h4>AMD - Official manuals and docs
</h4>
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>
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181 <h4>Intel - Official manuals and docs
</h4>
186 href=
"http://developer.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/index_new.htm">IA-
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189 href=
"http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/documentation.htm?iid=ipp_srvr_proc_itanium2+techdocs">Intel
190 Itanium documentation
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195 <h4>Other x86-specific information
</h4>
199 <li><a href=
"http://www.agner.org/assem/calling_conventions.pdf">Calling
200 conventions for different C++ compilers and operating systems
</a></li>
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207 <h3><a name=
"other">Other relevant lists
</a></h3>
212 <li><a href=
"http://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html">GCC reading list
</a></li>
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220 <h2><a name=
"abi">ABI
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226 <h3><a name=
"linux">Linux
</a></h3>
230 <li><a href=
"http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/">PowerPC
64-bit ELF ABI
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236 <h3><a name=
"osx">OS X
</a></h3>
241 href=
"http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/RuntimeArchitecture-date.html">Mach-O
242 Runtime Architecture
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243 <li><a href=
"http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000044.php">Notes on Mach-O
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252 <h2><a name=
"misc">Miscellaneous resources
</a></h2>
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257 href=
"http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles/ExecutableFileFormats/">Executable
258 File Format library
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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
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