This was used to manage an IA-64 ABI divergence is no longere needed
after the IA-64 removal.
(It should be possible to encode all the required information in
one machine word, so the pointer indirection is really unnecessary.
Technically, none of this is part of the ABI, so perhaps it's
possible to do this retroactively. See bug 27404.)
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>