The behavior was changed unintentionally during the conversion from C to Go.
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2470

This belongs to a series of clean-up changes (see below) for cmd/dist.
This is change (2).

These changes include:
(1)  apply minor fixes
(2)  restore behavior of branchtag
(3)  unleash bootstrap optimization for windows
(4)  use standard generated code header
(5)  remove trivial variables + functions
(6)  move functions for the better
(7)  simplify code segments
(8)  use bytes.Buffer for code generation
(9)  rename variables + functions
(10) remove doc.go

Change-Id: I53373c7211b35ed68da485c55e510871bfb81267
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/61022Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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