The 2.40 branch has been created

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Alan,

> Would you like me to apply the copyright year update to the branch?

Yes please.  (I should have thought of this and delayed branching until
after the start of the new year.  Doh).

> Also, the libiberty update should have merged gcc's config/picflag.m4
> with ours, in order for libiberty/configure to regen without
> differences on the branch.  I'm going to apply the following mainline,
> and will backport to the branch if that's OK?

Totally OK, please do.

Aside - keeping our version of libiberty in sync with gcc, but with
local tweaks is becoming burdensome...

Cheers
   Nick