Copy head@r302406 to stable/11 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE cycle.
Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, as nothing has been merged
here.

Additional commits post-branch will follow.

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-.1 release).
These bits are taken from the FSF anoncvs repo on 11-Oct-2002 22:39:35 PDT.

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.

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 the latest version ehopt.c from the Cygnus Sourceware anoncvs
repository (dated 5-3-1999).

This fixes the endless loop the assembler gets in when it is trying to
decide how big part of the exception handling table should be on the Alpha.
This version of this file allows qradiobutton.cpp from qt and widget.cc
from kdelibs11 to be compilable.

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>