Well, maybe almost nobody noticed this until now because there was no official
binutils release since then.
Actually I consider this to be a problem because for example the msp430-libc
msp430/common.h header defines some constants to setup the watchdog. These
constants are designed to be put together by the OR operator to form a complete
setup.
Actually this change does currently break the jtag code from the mspgcc project
and I suspect a lot of people will start crying if you release the next binutils
package with this change.