[PATCH,WWWDOCS] MIPS changes for GCC 5.0

[Matthew Fortune <Matthew dot Fortune at imgtec dot com>]

Hi Catherine,

I've made a first pass at writing up the MIPS changes for GCC 5.0.
Could you take a read and see what needs some more work?

Thanks,
Matthew

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> <h3 id="mips">MIPS</h3>                                                        
>   <ul>                                                                         
>     <li>MIPS Releases 3 and 5 are now directly supported using <code>-mips32r3,
>     -mips64r3, -mips32r5 and -mips64r5</code> instead of relying on the Release
>     2 options.</li>                                                            
>     <li>Support for the Imagination P5600 processor has been added using       
>     <code>-march=p5600</code>.
>     </li>                                                                      
>     <li>Support for the Cavium Networks Octeon3 processor has been added using 
>     <code>-march=octeon3</code>.</li>                                          
>     <li>MIPS Release 6 is now supported using <code>-mips32r6 and -mips64r6    
>     </code>.                                                                   
>     <li>The previous o32 64-bit floating-point register support has been       
>     obsoleted and removed.  This was previously enabled using <code>-mfp64     
>     </code> which has been re-purposed for the new ABI extensions described    
>     below.</li>                                                                
>     <li>New o32 ABI extensions have been added to enable software to transition
>     away from the original layout of double-precision floating-point registers.
>     <ul>                                                                       
>       <li>The first of these extensions is o32 FPXX which places restrictions  
>       on code-generation to never access the upper 32-bits of double-precision 
>       registers via odd-numbered single-precision registers.  By default the   
>       odd-numbered single-precision registers are not used at all with this    
>       extension.  o32 FPXX code is link compatible with all other o32          
>       double-precision ABI variants and will execute correctly in all hardware 
>       FPU modes.  Enable o32 FPXX using <code>-mabi=32 -mfpxx</code> for       
>       MIPS II onwards.</li>                                                    
>       <li>The second extension is o32 FP64A which requires 64-bit              
>       floating-point registers and places a mandatory restriction on the use of
>       odd-numbered single-precision registers.  o32 FP64A is link compatible   
>       with all other o32 double-precision ABI variants.  Enable o32 FP64A      
>       using <code>-mabi=32 -mfp64 -mno-odd-spreg</code> for MIPS32R2 onwards.  
>       </li>                                                                    
>       <li>Finally, the o32 FP64 extension which also requires 64-bit           
>       floating-point registers but permits the use of all single-precision     
>       registers.  Enable o32 FP64 using <code>-mfp64</code> for MIPS32R2       
>       onwards.</li>                                                            
>     </ul>                                                                      
>     All new ABI variants can be enabled by default using configure time        
>     options <code>--with-fp-32=[32|xx|64]</code> and                           
>     <code>--with(out)-odd-sp-reg-32</code>.  It is strongly recommended that
>     all vendors begin to set o32 FPXX as default ABI to be able to run the
>     generated code on MIPSR5 cores alongside future MIPS SIMD (MSA) code and
>     MIPSR6 cores.</li>
>     <li>When using binutils 2.25 GCC will now pass options like
>     <code>-msoft-float</code> and <code>-msingle-float</code> to the assembler.
>     This change can affect inline assembly code that is built as soft-float but
>     contains hard-float instructions.  In such cases the code must be amended
>     to use appropriate <code>.set</code> directives to override the global
>     assembler options.</li>
>   </ul>
>