1.1 KiB
1.1 KiB
Supported platforms
IBM POWER and Freescale (nee Motorola) PowerPC processors, in three flavors:
- 32 bits, ELF ABI: Debian's
powerpc - 64 bits big-endian, ELF ABI v1: Debian's
powerpc - 64 bits little-endian, ELF ABI v2: Debian's
ppc64el
No longer supported: AIX and MacOS X.
Reference documents
- Instruction set architecture: PowerPC User Instruction Set Architecture, book 1 of PowerPC Architecture Book (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/systems/library/es-archguide-v2.html).
- ELF ABI 32 bits: System V Application Binary Interface, PowerPC Processor Supplement
- ELF ABI 64 bits version 1: 64-bit PowerPC ELF Application Binary Interface Supplement (http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi.html)
- ELF ABI 64 bits version 2: Power Architecture 64-bit ELF V2 ABI Specification, OpenPOWER ABI for Linux Supplement (http://openpowerfoundation.org/technical/technical-resources/technical-specifications/)
- The PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide, Warthman Associates, 1996. (PDF available from various sources on the Web.)