Fix for --as-needed taken from the following upstream commit. Note: the patch doesn't contain any of the testsuite changes.

  https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils.git;a=commit;h=ea12435a79d5c61859a3513783a4d268a5b1ecfd

Fix by Gregory Fong (s. https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2013-05/msg00328.html)

--- bfd/elfxx-mips.c
+++ bfd/elfxx-mips.c
@@ -4906,6 +4906,7 @@ mips_elf_create_got_section (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *info)
   h->non_elf = 0;
   h->def_regular = 1;
   h->type = STT_OBJECT;
+  h->other = (h->other & ~ELF_ST_VISIBILITY (-1)) | STV_HIDDEN;
   elf_hash_table (info)->hgot = h;
 
   if (info->shared