Technical Information

This page contains links to technical information that may be beneficial to those working on compilers, programming languages, or operating systems. Specifications, manuals, and links to places to search for information are provided.

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Academic Searches

• Citeseer : Search for Academic Citations and Papers
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Programming Languages

• Java Language Specification
• Java Virtual Machine Specification
• Java 2 Enterprise Edition Platform Specification


• C# Language Specification (ECMA-334)
• Common Language Infastructure (ECMA-335)


• Itanium C++ Application Binary Interface (ABI)

Hardware

• Intel
  • IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volumes 1-3
  • Intel Itanium Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volumes 1-3
  • Intel XScale(tm) Microarchitecture Programmers Reference Manual


• IBM
  • Programming Environments Manual For 32-Bit Implementations of the PowerPC Architecture


• MIPS Technologies
  • MIPS Documentation (Registration Required)


• Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  • Sparc Architecture Reference Manual, Version 8
  • Sparc Architecture Reference Manual, Version 9
  • Sparc Assembly Language Reference Manual
  • UltraSPARC User's Manuals


• ARM


• IEEE 754

Research Papers

• Shared Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial
  This is what you want to read if you need a basic understanding of memory consistency models and their corresponding issues.


• LLVM Publications
  This page contains a list of publications that either about or use the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure.