Make power8 the default cpu when assembling for 64-bit little endian targets.

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 -*- text -*-
 
+* Remove -mold-gcc command-line option for x86 targets.
+
+* Add -O[2|s] command-line options to x86 assembler to enable alternate
+  shorter instruction encoding.
+
+* Add support for .nops directive.  It is currently supported only for
+  x86 targets.
+
+Changes in 2.30:
+
+* Add support for loaction views in DWARF debug line information.
+
+Changes in 2.29:
+
+* Add support for ELF SHF_GNU_MBIND.
+
+* Add support for the WebAssembly file format and wasm32 ELF conversion.
+
 * PowerPC gas now checks that the correct register class is used in
-  instructions.  For instance, "addi %f4,%cr3,%r31" is now rejected
-  rather than silently producing "addi r4,r3,31".
+  instructions.  For instance, "addi %f4,%cr3,%r31" warns three times
+  that the registers are invalid.
 
 * Add support for the Texas Instruments PRU processor.
 
+* Support for the ARMv8-R architecture and Cortex-R52 processor has been
+  added to the ARM port.
+
 Changes in 2.28:
 
 * Add support for the RISC-V architecture.
@@ -707,7 +728,7 @@ Changes in 1.93.01:
   of new CPUs and formats, lots of bugs fixed.
 
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+Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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