This is a pre requesite of CL 21722 and removes a lot of unidiomatic
boilerplate in the linker.

Change-Id: If7491b88212b2be7b0c8c588e9c196839131f8ad
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/21780
Run-TryBot: Dave Cheney <dave@cheney.net>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>