2007-11-09 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>

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+* Support for generating wide character strings has been added via the new
+  pseudo ops: .string16, .string32 and .string64.
+
+* Support for SSE5 has been added to the i386 port.
+
+Changes in 2.18:
+
+* The GAS sources are now released under the GPLv3.
+
+* Support for the National Semiconductor CR16 target has been added.
+
+* Added gas .reloc pseudo.  This is a low-level interface for creating
+  relocations.
+
+* Add support for x86_64 PE+ target.
+
+* Add support for Score target.
+
+Changes in 2.17:
+
+* Support for the Infineon XC16X has been added by KPIT Cummins Infosystems.
+
+* Support for ms2 architecture has been added.
+
+* Support for the Z80 processor family has been added.
+
+* Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command line, so that extra
+  switches can be read from <file>.
+
+* The SH target supports a new command line switch --enable-reg-prefix which,
+  if enabled, will allow register names to be optionally prefixed with a $
+  character.  This allows register names to be distinguished from label names.
+  
+* Macros with a variable number of arguments are now supported. See the
+  documentation for how this works.
 
 * Added --reduce-memory-overheads switch to reduce the size of the hash
   tables used, at the expense of longer assembly times, and