[patch] Altera Nios II support

[Chris Johns]

Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> The attached patch adds minimal support for building newlib for Altera
> Nios II ELF (nios2-elf). Altera did the initial toolchain port for this
> processor some years ago and now Mentor Graphics is helping to update
> the patches and get them in the upstream repositories. The binutils
> patches were committed a couple of months ago and the gcc port has just
> been posted. gdb will be posted soon and glibc (for nios2-linux-gnu
> target) will follow in due course.

Many thanks to you, Mentor Graphics and Altera for getting this work 
pushed upstream.

Chris