PowerPC VLE

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+* Support for the ARMv8-M architecture has been added to the ARM port.  Support
+  for the ARMv8-M Security and DSP Extensions has also been added to the ARM
+  port.
+
+* ARC backend accepts .extInstruction, .extCondCode, .extAuxRegister, and
+  .extCoreRegister pseudo-ops that allow an user to define custom
+  instructions, conditional codes, auxiliary and core registers.
+
+* Add a configure option --enable-elf-stt-common to decide whether ELF
+  assembler should generate common symbols with the STT_COMMON type by
+  default.  Default to no.
+
+* New command line option --elf-stt-common= for ELF targets to control
+  whether to generate common symbols with the STT_COMMON type.
+
 * Add ability to set section flags and types via numeric values for ELF
   based targets.