branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision

from ftp.gnu.org

branches: 1.1.1.1.6; 1.1.1.1.12;
Import binutils 2.19.1 as requested by matt@

OK'ed by board@

Rebase to HEAD as of a few days ago.

sync with head.

for a reference, the tree before this commit was tagged
as yamt-pagecache-tag8.

this commit was splitted into small chunks to avoid
a limitation of cvs. ("Protocol error: too many arguments")