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

Update HEAD with the stock binutils_2_15_20040523 file.

Update HEAD with the stock files.

Try to keep CVS from pissing over the next binutils import by returning
to purely stock files.

Use the stock 2.13.1 snapshot version of this.

Use the stock 2.12.1 snapshot version of this.

Use the stock 2.12 snapshot version of this.

Use the stock 2.12.0_snap version of this.

We use the stock (2.11.2) version of this now.

We use the stock version of this file.

Tweaks for i386, add alpha, ppc, sparc, and strongarm support.

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r60484,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.

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.