Looks good to me. We've needed this for a while since the crunchgen changes
were done to use objcopy.

James

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>Folks,
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>I'd like to commit the following patches that change crunchgen
>to use symbol renaming instead of symbol hiding.  Symbol hiding
>doesn't work on MIPS due to problems with changing the visibily
>of certain types of relocations and it doesn't appear that it'll
>be fixed anytime soon.
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>Currently objcopy doesn't support reading lists of symbols
>to rename from a file (they way the list of symbols to hide
>is currently done) - to do this, I've included a patch from
>Chris Demetriou that he posted to the binutils mailling list in
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-09/msg00505.html
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>I could have made this change for MIPS only, but didn't think
>it was worth the effort/time/etc to differentiate.  This has
>been tested on MIPS, i386, powerpc, sparc and sparc64.
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>Simon.
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>Simon Burge                                   <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
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