This patch contains the remnants of CL (122482), which was intended to
reduce memory allocation in 'relocsym'. Another CL (113637) went in
first that included pretty much all of the code changes in 122482,
however there are some changes to comments that are worth preserving.

Change-Id: Iacdbd2bfe3b7ca2656596570f06ce9a646211913
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/122482
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>