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

Merge ^vendor/binutils/dist@214082 into contrib/binutils.

Import the binutils-2_17-branch from the sourceware CVS repository,
exactly as it was on Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:00:13 +0000.

Corresponds to git commit b458c361f01f7a257f897d0961d0a379ee999aaa.

This is currently (and most likely forever :) the last commit on this
branch.