Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

Merge binutils 2.17.50 to head. This brings a number of improvements to
x86 CPU support, better support for powerpc64, some new directives, and
many other things. Bump __FreeBSD_version, and add a note to UPDATING.

Thanks to the many people that have helped to test this.

Obtained from: projects/binutils-2.17

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r130561,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.

Import of Binutils from the FSF 2.15 branch (just post-.0 release).
These bits are taken from the FSF anoncvs repo on 23-May-2004 04:41:00 UTC.

Import of Binutils from the FSF 2.13 branch (just pre-.2 release).
These bits are taken from the FSF anoncvs repo on 27-Oct-2002 21:12:00 EST.

Import of Binutils from the FSF 2.13 branch (just pre-.1 release).
These bits are taken from the FSF anoncvs repo on 11-Oct-2002 22:39:35 PDT.

Import of Binutils from the FSF 2.12 branch (just post-.1 release).
These bits are taken from the FSF anoncvs repo on 22-June-2002 23:28:00 EDT.

Import of Binutils from the FSF 2.12 branch.
(this fixes several linker problems and coredumps)
These bits are taken from the FSF anoncvs repo on 10-April-2002 13:24 Zulu

Import of Binutils from the FSF 2.12 branch (pre-.0 release).

These bits are taken from the FSF anoncvs repo on 21-Feburary-2002 20:15 PST.

Enlist the FreeBSD-CURRENT users as testers of what is to become Binutils
version 2.12.0. These bits are taken from the FSF anoncvs repo on
27-January-2002 03:41 PST.

Halloween import of Binutils from the FSF 2.11 branch.
This fixes some IA-64 related bugs.

Import the extra bits needed to target IA-64, PowerPC, and sparc64.
(this is Binutils from the FSF 2.11 branch [checked out 19-July-2001])