Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

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

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)

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 r94536,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.

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 a virgin (but trimed) Binutils 2.10 release.

Import an extra source file from binutils 2.8.1 that is included on
alpha.