Branching this weekend

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

Hi Nick,

> >   I'm blocked on having correct authorship attribution provided for:
> > <https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/20230616072536.1805704-1-yunqiang.su@cipunited.com/>,
> > which I have a fixed version of ready to push, and which I want to see in
> > 2.43.  I guess this probably is not something that should prevent you from
> > branching unless you want to cut the release right away (which I gather is
> > not the case)
> 
> Correct - I will be evaluating the branch for at least 2 weeks.

 Great!

> > as I can just push it to master and backport instead in the
> > stability period.
> 
> Please do this when you are ready.

 My sources have confirmed that the change was not actually developed at 
ImgTec/MIPS so I have committed it now and backported to 2.43 with the 
author set to YunQiang Su and myself as a co-author for the multitude of 
clean-ups made.  Thank you for the pre-approval for 2.43.

 I have a couple of follow-up clean-ups and improvements ready for master, 
but I'll wait with them for the release so as not to make master diverge 
from 2.43 unnecessarily.

  Maciej