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

Change compiler setting to make default visibility of the symbols for
rtld on x86 to be hidden. This is a micro-optimization, which allows
intrinsic references inside rtld to be handled without indirection
through PLT. The visibility of rtld symbols for other objects in the
symbol namespace is controlled by a version script.

Reviewed by: kan, jilles
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks

- change "is is" to "is" or "it is"
- change "the the" to "the"

Approved by: lstewart
Approved by: sahil (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days

Add section .note.GNU-stack for assembly files used by 386 and amd64.

Align the stack to a 16 byte boundary before calling _rtld so that we can
safely initialise shared libraries that use SSE in their init sections.

MFC After: 1 week

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

Add alpha support.

Submitted by: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> (with extra hacks by me)
Obtained from: Probably NetBSD

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r34192,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.

Import the ELF dynamic linker. This is the ElfKit version with
quite a few enhancements and bug fixes. There are still some known
deficiencies, but it should be adequate to get us started with ELF.

Submitted by: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>