I would like opinions on whether this is a good idea for 1.1.
On the one hand it's a moderately important issue.  On the
other hand this introduces at least the possibility of
external linker errors due to the additional relocations and
it may be better to wait.

I'm fairly confident that the behaviour is unchanged when not
using an external linker.

Update #5221

This CL is tested lightly on 386 and amd64 and fixes the cases
I tested.  I have not tested it on Darwin or Windows.

R=golang-dev, dave, daniel.morsing, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/8858047