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

Merge rev 1.2 (FreeBSD a.out configuration support) into Binutils 2.15.

Merge rev 1.2 (FreeBSD a.out configuration support) into the
Binutils 2.13_20021110 snap.

Merge rev 1.2 (FreeBSD a.out configuration support) into the
Binutils 2.12_20020622 snap.

Merge rev 1.2 (FreeBSD a.out configuration support) into the
Binutils 2.12_20020410 snap.

Merge rev 1.2 (FreeBSD a.out configuration support) into
Binutils 2.12_20020221_snap.

Merge rev 1.2 (FreeBSD a.out configuration support) into Binutils 2.12.0_snap.

This merges in the changes from the FSF 19-July-2001 snapshot to the
2001 Halloween snapshot.

This merges in the changes from the 2.11.2 release to the FSF anoncvs
19-July-2001 snapshot.

Merge rev 1.2 (FreeBSD configuration support) into Binutils 2.11.2.

Merge rev 1.2 (FreeBSD configuration support) into Binutils 2.11[.0].

Merge rev 1.2 (FreeBSD configuration support) into Binutils 2.10.1.

Merge in rev 1.2 (FreeBSD configuration support)

Resolve conflicts from import of binutils-2.9.1.

Submitted by: Doug Rabson <dfr>

Configuration changes to support FreeBSD. The linker only works for
ELF, not a.out. But all the other tools support both. I'm not so
sure about the assembler -- it might need more work.

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r33965,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.

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