@c Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001,
-@c 2002, 2003, 2004
+@c 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c This is part of the GAS manual.
@c For copying conditions, see the file as.texinfo.
* MIPS option stack:: Directives to save and restore options
* MIPS ASE instruction generation overrides:: Directives to control
generation of MIPS ASE instructions
+* MIPS floating-point:: Directives to override floating-point options
@end menu
@node MIPS Opts
@itemx -no-mfix-vr4130
Insert nops to work around the VR4130 @samp{mflo}/@samp{mfhi} errata.
+@item -mfix-24k
+@itemx -no-mfix-24k
+Insert nops to work around the 24K @samp{eret}/@samp{deret} errata.
+
@item -m4010
@itemx -no-m4010
Generate code for the LSI @sc{r4010} chip. This tells the assembler to
rm9000,
10000,
12000,
+14000,
+16000,
4kc,
4km,
4kp,
74kf,
74kf1_1,
74kf3_2,
+1004kc,
+1004kf2_1,
+1004kf,
+1004kf1_1,
5kc,
5kf,
20kc,
25kf,
sb1,
-sb1a
+sb1a,
+loongson2e,
+loongson2f,
+octeon,
+xlr
@end quotation
For compatibility reasons, @samp{@var{n}x} and @samp{@var{b}fx} are
@sc{gnu} @code{@value{AS}}, there is no need for @samp{-nocpp}, because the
@sc{gnu} assembler itself never runs the C preprocessor.
+@item -msoft-float
+@itemx -mhard-float
+Disable or enable floating-point instructions. Note that by default
+floating-point instructions are always allowed even with CPU targets
+that don't have support for these instructions.
+
+@item -msingle-float
+@itemx -mdouble-float
+Disable or enable double-precision floating-point operations. Note
+that by default double-precision floating-point operations are always
+allowed even with CPU targets that don't have support for these
+operations.
+
@item --construct-floats
@itemx --no-construct-floats
-@cindex --construct-floats
-@cindex --no-construct-floats
The @code{--no-construct-floats} option disables the construction of
double width floating point constants by loading the two halves of the
value into the two single width floating point registers that make up
@code{@value{AS}} automatically adds 1 to the value, so that jumping to
the loaded address will do the right thing.
+@kindex @code{.global}
+The @code{.global} and @code{.globl} directives supported by
+@code{@value{AS}} will by default mark the symbol as pointing to a
+region of data not code. This means that, for example, any
+instructions following such a symbol will not be disassembled by
+@code{objdump} as it will regard them as data. To change this
+behaviour an optional section name can be placed after the symbol name
+in the @code{.global} directive. If this section exists and is known
+to be a code section, then the symbol will be marked as poiting at
+code not data. Ie the syntax for the directive is:
+
+ @code{.global @var{symbol}[ @var{section}][, @var{symbol}[ @var{section}]] ...},
+
+Here is a short example:
+
+@example
+ .global foo .text, bar, baz .data
+foo:
+ nop
+bar:
+ .word 0x0
+baz:
+ .word 0x1
+
+@end example
+
@node MIPS option stack
@section Directives to save and restore options
instructions from being accepted.
Traditional @sc{mips} assemblers do not support these directives.
+
+@node MIPS floating-point
+@section Directives to override floating-point options
+
+@cindex Disable floating-point instructions
+@kindex @code{.set softfloat}
+@kindex @code{.set hardfloat}
+The directives @code{.set softfloat} and @code{.set hardfloat} provide
+finer control of disabling and enabling float-point instructions.
+These directives always override the default (that hard-float
+instructions are accepted) or the command-line options
+(@samp{-msoft-float} and @samp{-mhard-float}).
+
+@cindex Disable single-precision floating-point operations
+@kindex @code{.set singlefloat}
+@kindex @code{.set doublefloat}
+The directives @code{.set singlefloat} and @code{.set doublefloat}
+provide finer control of disabling and enabling double-precision
+float-point operations. These directives always override the default
+(that double-precision operations are accepted) or the command-line
+options (@samp{-msingle-float} and @samp{-mdouble-float}).
+
+Traditional @sc{mips} assemblers do not support these directives.