cmd/link: expand a TODO comment

CL 231397 is submitted too fast... Expand the comment to make it a little clearer. Change-Id: Ica9737aa7b51f97320bab74457388dcab8188370 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/231597 Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <[email protected]>
kamermans · May 1, 2020 · e0e0dab · e0e0dab
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diff --git a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/deadcode.go b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/deadcode.go
@@ -159,8 +159,10 @@ func (d *deadcodePass) flood() {
 			if a.Type() == goobj2.AuxGotype && !d.ctxt.linkShared {
 				// A symbol being reachable doesn't imply we need its
 				// type descriptor. Don't mark it.
-				// XXX we need that for GCProg generation when linking
-				// shared library. why?
+				// TODO: when -linkshared, the GCProg generation code
+				// seems to need it. I'm not sure why. I think it could
+				// just reach to the type descriptor's data without
+				// requiring to mark it reachable.
 				continue
 			}
 			d.mark(a.Sym(), symIdx)