as: MIPS Floating-Point

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1 9.27.13 Directives to override floating-point options
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1 The directives '.set softfloat' and '.set hardfloat' provide finer
1 control of disabling and enabling float-point instructions.  These
1 directives always override the default (that hard-float instructions are
1 accepted) or the command-line options ('-msoft-float' and
1 '-mhard-float').
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1    The directives '.set singlefloat' and '.set doublefloat' provide
1 finer control of disabling and enabling double-precision float-point
1 operations.  These directives always override the default (that
1 double-precision operations are accepted) or the command-line options
1 ('-msingle-float' and '-mdouble-float').
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1    Traditional MIPS assemblers do not support these directives.
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