Demystifying GCC
Under the Hood of the GNU Compiler Collection
(An OOPSLA 2006 Tutorial)

• Main handout for the tutorial
• Extra slides on RTL/machine descriptions that didn't make it into the handouts
• Code used in the exercises
• GNU FTP Mirror List for downloading GCC sources (external link)

• GCC home page
• Wikipedia entry for GCC, containing historical and overview information etc.
• The GCC wiki, containing lots of good technical information about GCC, plans for the future, etc.
• Steven Muchnick's book on compiler design and implementation, with a lot of great stuff about optimization and other advanced topics. Buy it. Read it. Love it. (Though if you get the same printing I have, I recommend you check out the errata.)
• Speaking of textbooks, you may also want to check out Engineering a Compiler by Cooper and Torczon if you need to brush up on your parsing theory and other compiler topics. I've heard great things about it, but I don't have it myself. (Errata.)
• Static single assignment (SSA) paper: Cytron et al. Efficiently computing static single assignment form and the control dependence graph.
• McCAT paper (using SIMPLE, on which GIMPLE is based): Hendren et al. Designing the McCAT Compiler Based on a Family of Structured Intermediate Representations.
• Paper on GCC IR: Merrill. GENERIC and GIMPLE: A New Tree Representation for Entire Functions.
• Paper on retargettable YC compiler and its use of RTL, machine descriptions, and instruction matching: Davidson and Fraser. Code selection through object code optimization.
• Bowen Alpern et al. Efficient Implementation of Java Interfaces: Invokeinterface Considered Harmless
• (Old) paper by Hans-J. Boehm describing various aspects of the Boehm collector: Hans-Juergen Boehm. Space-efficient conservative garbage collection. Even older paper: Hans-Juergen Boehm and Mark Weiser. Garbage collection in an uncooperative environment.
• ELF: Executable and Linkable Format
• The GCC Tree Browser
• Pentium 4 reference
• PowerPC reference