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
us up to version 2.17.50.20070703, at the last GPLv2 commit.
Amongst others, this added upstream support for some FreeBSD-specific
things that we previously had to manually hack in, such as the OSABI
label support, and so on.
There are also quite a number of new files, some for cpu's (e.g. SPU)
that we may or may not be interested in, but those can be cleaned up
later on, if needed.
The change made to bfd/elf.c in upstream revision 1.217.4.3 (which was a
revert of an earlier change), caused objcopy on powerpc to fail to copy
debug info from kernel modules. This had to be fixed by applying the
diff from upstream revision 1.243 on top of it.
Binutils has a "contrib" subdirectory - thus flattening cannot happen
without renaming the upper level contrib directory in a first pass.
Also, don't record this move and remove any keyword expansion.
non-shared object, do not reserve space in .plt and .rela.plt
for regular symbols neither defined nor referenced in shared objects.
This is a backport of rev. 1.101 (sourceware.org repository) to
Binutils 2.15 which fixes the creation of bogus relocations in the
PLT of Firefox and Thunderbird binaries and which in turn caused
them to segfault in rtld(1). This is committed to the vendor branch
as it doesn't represent a local change but the original vendor fix
is from after elf_link_hash_flags was replaced with bitfields.
PR: sparc64/89486
Approved by: maintainer timeout
Obtained from: NetBSD
MFC after: 1 week
