Developer Documentation
From Open Watcom
Documentation for developers working on Open Watcom. Some of these documents may also be of interest to application developers. Note that not all of these documents are stored on the Open Watcom server.
Language References
ISO C99 Technical Corrigendum 3 (Latest Draft)
The New C Standard: An Economic and Cultural Commentary (see also book's home page)
Compiler construction references & tutorials
Compiler Construction - By Niklaus Wirth, on paper by Addison-Wesley in 1996, ISBN 0-201-40353-6. Other books by the same author.
Learning to write a compiler - A large collection of compiler writing resources on stackoverflow.
Linkers and Loaders
Linkers and Loaders - By John Levine (draft version online), on paper by Morgan-Kaufman in 1999, ISBN 1-55860-496-0. See the web site of the book.
Processor Architecture Manuals
Alpha AXP
Note: The documents that used to be on ftp.compaq.com can still be found at:
ftp://ftp.uniroma2.it/%7BB/DEC/compaq/products/alphaCPUdocs/archives/
Alpha Architecture Handbook, January 2002
Alpha 21264 Compiler Writer's Guide
Compiler Writer's Guide for the 21264/21364, January 2002
Porting Windows NT programs from x86 to Alpha
Alpha 21264/EV6 Hardware Reference Manual
Alpha 21264/EV67 Microprocessor Hardware Reference Manual
Alpha 21264/EV68A Microprocessor Hardware Reference Manual
Alpha 21264/EV68CB and 21264/EV68DC Microprocessor Hardware Reference Manual
Alpha 21164 Microprocessor Hardware Reference Manual, December 1998
Alpha 21164 Microprocessor Hardware Reference Manual, July 1996
Alpha 21064 and Alpha 21064A Microprocessor Hardware Reference Manual
Alpha 21066 and Alpha 21066A Microprocessor Hardware Reference Manual
Lots of Alpha-related documentation
Lots of Alpha-related stuff through 1999
AMD64
AMD64 General-Purpose and System Instructions
AMD64 128-bit Media Instructions
AMD64 64-bit Media and 80x87 Instructions
Intel IA-32 (x86)
Intel Pentium 4 Optimizations Manual
Intel Optimizations Reference Manual
Intel IA-32 Software Developer's Guide Volume I
Intel IA-32 Software Developer's Guide Volume II
Intel IA-32 Software Developer's Guide Volume III
Obsolete but useful documents
Note: The following four text files use codepage IBM-437; ASCII graphics will not be correct when viewed using a different codepage.
Intel 80286 Programmer's Reference Manual (1987)
Intel 80287 Programmer's Reference Manual (1987)
Intel 80386 Programmer's Reference Manual (1986)
Intel 80387 Programmer's Reference Manual (1987)
Intel Itanium (TM)
Intel Itanium(TM) Architecture Assembly Language Reference Guide
MIPS
MIPS R4000 Microprocessor User's Manual
MIPS R10000 Microprocessor User's Manual
PowerPC
PowerPC Programmer's Reference Guide
PowerPC Programming Environments
PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide
SPARC
Floating-point related documents
IEEE 754 - binary floating-point arithmetic
IEEE 854 - radix-independent floating-point arithmetic
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
Why don’t my numbers add up? An easier explanation to follow than the article above
PC Hardware Documentation
Intel 8959A Programmable Interrupt Controller
Intel 8237A Programmable DMA Controller
Intel 82078 Floppy Disk Controller
Intel 82C54 Programmable Interval Timer
Motorola MC146818A RTC and CMOS RAM
Motorola MC6845 CRT Controller
ABI Documents
Object and Executable File Formats
Solaris Linker and Libraries Guide (good i386/x64/SPARC ELF reference included)
TIS Object Module Format (OMF) Specification
Microsoft New Executable (NE) Specification, Windows 3.0 variety
Microsoft New Executable (NE) Specification, Windows 3.1 variety
IBM Linear Executable (LX) and OMF Specification
Windows Formats (PE and symbols) Specification
Intel HEX Format Specification
Debugging Information Formats
DWARF 2.0 Standard - See also the DWARF FAQ
CodeView Debugging Information
Miscellaneous Documentation
PostScript Language Reference Manual
