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.

Fix the 'nm' -> segfault bug (on the vendor branch). This has been fixed
the same way in the cygnus base source. The problem was that bfd was
writing to memory obtained from malloc(0). The next import will update
this if necessary. I'm not sure of the origins of this patch.

Discussed with: obrien

Import of GNU Binutils version 2.11.2.

Import of GNU Binutils version 2.11.0.
Believe it or not, this is heavily stripped down.

Import of Binutils 2.10 snapshot.

Import GNU binutils-2.9.1. This will break things for a few minutes
until I've made the commits to resolve the conflicts.

Submitted by: Doug Rabson <dfr>

Initial import of GNU binutils version 2.8.1. Believe it or not,
this is heavily stripped down.