Revert "[2.22], [2.23] Backport of 4 patches from trunk for enabling merging string literals:"

This reverts commit 4e91a88206ad5dd22d6cdb4b3293b1ab83faff6a.

Conflicts:
	binutils-2.23.2/gold/testsuite/Makefile.am

This breaks something and causes bootloop from libhardware_legacy when
wifi is on.