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From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
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Subject: Re: PowerPC ISA
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:48:33 +0000
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On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:17:57 +0000, Brian Drummond
<brian_drummond@btconnect.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:58:44 -0700, csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson)
>wrote:
>
>>     Has anyone developed an Ada type that describes the PowerPC
>>instruction set architecture?  Failing that, does anyone know of an
>>available description of how a PowerPC CPU might decode instructions?


>"The PowerPC stack and heap information is available on the IBM Web site at
>http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF77852569970071B0D6/$file/eabi_app.pdf"
>
>That link unfortunately doesn't seem to work any more. Perhaps it serves as a
>proof-of-existence for a useful document; searching ibm.com for eabi_app.pdf
>might be fruitful.

Google "eabi_app.pdf" has
www.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF77852569970071B0D6/$file/eabi_app.pdf
as the first hit; the link seems to work today.

- Brian