Add AMD SSE5 support

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 -*- text -*-
+* Support for SSE5 has been added to the i386 port.
+
+* Added -p switch to readelf to allow string dumps of sections.
+
+Changes in 2.18:
+* Resolved 37 coding problems in bfd including static array overruns, null
+  pointer dereferences and use of a malloc buffer after it has been freed, as
+  revealed by static analysis donated by Coverity, Inc. (http://scan.coverity.com).
+
+* The binutils sources are now released under version 3 of the GNU General
+  Public License.
+
+* A new tool "windmc" has been added for some targets.  This is a message
+  compiler which attempts to be compatible with the MS version.
+
+* Add codepage support to the windres tool.  It now supports many new
+  resource types (e.g. MANIFEST, TOOLBAR, etc).  The output generation
+  for binary files is done now via bfd itself.  The endianess problems
+  for different hosts are solved.  Dumps of .res files can now be
+  re-compiled by windres without lossing resources or compilation errors.
+  Some problems on dialog resource translations are corrected.
+
+* Add --extract-symbol command line option to objcopy, which will
+  strip everything out of an ordinary object file or executable except
+  for its symbol table.  Files containing just symbols can be useful
+  to some OSes.
+
+Changes in 2.17:
+
+* Add "-x NAME" to readelf in addition to "-x NUMBER".
+
+* Add -i and -t switches to cxxfilt.  -i disables the display of implementation
+  specific extra demangling information (if any) and -t disables the demangling
+  of types.
+
+* Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command lines of all tools, so
+  that extra switches can be read from <file>.
+
+* Add "-W/--dwarf" to objdump to display the contents of the DWARF
+  debug sections.
+
+* Add "-t/--section-details" to readelf to display section details.
+  "-N/--full-section-name" is deprecated.
+
+* powerpc-linux ld now supports a variant form of PLT and GOT for the security
+  conscious.  This form will automatically be chosen when ld detects that all
+  code in regular object files was generated by gcc -msecure-plt.  The old PLT
+  and GOT may be forced by a new ld option, --bss-plt.
+
+* Add "-i/--inlines" to addr2line to print enclosing scope information
+  for inlined function chains, back to first non-inlined function.
+
+* Add "-N/--full-section-name" to readelf to display full section name.
+
+* Add "-M entry:<addr>" switch to objdump to specify a function entry address
+  when disassembling VAX binaries.
+
+* Add "--globalize-symbol <name>" and "--globalize-symbols <filename>" switches
+  to objcopy to convert local symbols into global symbols.
+  
+* gprof now allows input files to have histogram records for
+  several memory ranges, provided those ranges are disjoint.  
+
+Changes in 2.16:
+
+* Add "-g/--section-groups" to readelf to display section groups.
 
 * objcopy recognizes two new options --strip-unneeded-symbol and
   --strip-unneeded-symbols, namely for use together with the wildcard
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 Changes in 2.15:
 
 * objcopy for MIPS targets now accepts "-M no-aliases" as an option to the
-  disassembler to print the "raw" mips instruction mneumonic instead of some
+  disassembler to print the "raw" mips instruction mnemonic instead of some
   pseudo instruction name.  I.E. print "daddu" or "or" instead of "move",
   "sll" instead of "nop", etc.