diff --git libgomp/Makefile.in libgomp/Makefile.in
[...]
diff --git libgomp/config.h.in libgomp/config.h.in
[...]
diff --git libgomp/configure libgomp/configure
[...]
diff --git libgomp/plugin/configfrag.ac libgomp/plugin/configfrag.ac
index 88b4156..93d3a71 100644
--- libgomp/plugin/configfrag.ac
+++ libgomp/plugin/configfrag.ac
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@
 # see the files COPYING3 and COPYING.RUNTIME respectively.  If not, see
 # <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-offload_targets=
-AC_SUBST(offload_targets)
 plugin_support=yes
 AC_CHECK_LIB(dl, dlsym, , [plugin_support=no])
 if test x"$plugin_support" = xyes; then
@@ -142,7 +140,10 @@ AC_SUBST(PLUGIN_HSA_LIBS)
 
 
 
-# Get offload targets and path to install tree of offloading compiler.
+# Parse offload targets, and figure out libgomp plugin, and configure the
+# corresponding offload compiler.
+offload_plugins=
+AC_SUBST(offload_plugins)
 offload_additional_options=
 offload_additional_lib_paths=
 AC_SUBST(offload_additional_options)
@@ -151,13 +152,13 @@ if test x"$enable_offload_targets" != x; then
   for tgt in `echo $enable_offload_targets | sed -e 's#,# #g'`; do
     tgt_dir=`echo $tgt | grep '=' | sed 's/.*=//'`
     tgt=`echo $tgt | sed 's/=.*//'`
-    tgt_name=
+    tgt_plugin=
     case $tgt in
       *-intelmic-* | *-intelmicemul-*)
-	tgt_name=intelmic
+	tgt_plugin=intelmic
 	;;
       nvptx*)
-        tgt_name=nvptx
+	tgt_plugin=nvptx
 	PLUGIN_NVPTX=$tgt
 	PLUGIN_NVPTX_CPPFLAGS=$CUDA_DRIVER_CPPFLAGS
 	PLUGIN_NVPTX_LDFLAGS=$CUDA_DRIVER_LDFLAGS
@@ -184,7 +185,7 @@ if test x"$enable_offload_targets" != x; then
 	    ;;
 	esac
 	;;
-      hsa*)
+      hsa)
 	case "${target}" in
 	  x86_64-*-*)
 	    case " ${CC} ${CFLAGS} " in
@@ -192,7 +193,7 @@ if test x"$enable_offload_targets" != x; then
 	        PLUGIN_HSA=0
 		;;
 	      *)
-	        tgt_name=hsa
+		tgt_plugin=hsa
 	        PLUGIN_HSA=$tgt
 	        PLUGIN_HSA_CPPFLAGS=$HSA_RUNTIME_CPPFLAGS
 	        PLUGIN_HSA_LDFLAGS="$HSA_RUNTIME_LDFLAGS $HSA_KMT_LDFLAGS"
@@ -214,7 +215,7 @@ if test x"$enable_offload_targets" != x; then
 	        LDFLAGS=$PLUGIN_HSA_save_LDFLAGS
 	        LIBS=$PLUGIN_HSA_save_LIBS
 	        case $PLUGIN_HSA in
-	          hsa*)
+		  hsa)
 	            HSA_PLUGIN=0
 	            AC_MSG_ERROR([HSA run-time package required for HSA support])
 	            ;;
@@ -231,16 +232,17 @@ if test x"$enable_offload_targets" != x; then
 	AC_MSG_ERROR([unknown offload target specified])
 	;;
     esac
-    if test x"$tgt_name" = x; then
+    if test x"$tgt_plugin" = x; then
       # Don't configure libgomp for this offloading target if we don't build
       # the corresponding plugin.
       continue
-    elif test x"$offload_targets" = x; then
-      offload_targets=$tgt_name
+    elif test x"$offload_plugins" = x; then
+      offload_plugins=$tgt_plugin
     else
-      offload_targets=$offload_targets,$tgt_name
+      offload_plugins=$offload_plugins,$tgt_plugin
     fi
-    if test "$tgt_name" = hsa; then
+    # Configure additional search paths.
+    if test "$tgt_plugin" = hsa; then
       # Offloading compilation is all handled by the target compiler.
       :
     elif test x"$tgt_dir" != x; then
@@ -252,8 +254,8 @@ if test x"$enable_offload_targets" != x; then
     fi
   done
 fi
-AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(OFFLOAD_TARGETS, "$offload_targets",
-  [Define to offload targets, separated by commas.])
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(OFFLOAD_PLUGINS, "$offload_plugins",
+  [Define to offload plugins, separated by commas.])
 AM_CONDITIONAL([PLUGIN_NVPTX], [test $PLUGIN_NVPTX = 1])
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([PLUGIN_NVPTX], [$PLUGIN_NVPTX],
   [Define to 1 if the NVIDIA plugin is built, 0 if not.])
diff --git libgomp/target.c libgomp/target.c
index 48b9ab8..2b7e627 100644
--- libgomp/target.c
+++ libgomp/target.c
@@ -2474,9 +2474,9 @@ gomp_target_fini (void)
     }
 }
 
-/* This function initializes the runtime needed for offloading.
-   It parses the list of offload targets and tries to load the plugins for
-   these targets.  On return, the variables NUM_DEVICES and NUM_DEVICES_OPENMP
+/* This function initializes the runtime for offloading.
+   It parses the list of offload plugins, and tries to load these.
+   On return, the variables NUM_DEVICES and NUM_DEVICES_OPENMP
    will be set, and the array DEVICES initialized, containing descriptors for
    corresponding devices, first the GOMP_OFFLOAD_CAP_OPENMP_400 ones, follows
    by the others.  */
@@ -2493,7 +2493,7 @@ gomp_target_init (void)
   num_devices = 0;
   devices = NULL;
 
-  cur = OFFLOAD_TARGETS;
+  cur = OFFLOAD_PLUGINS;
   if (*cur)
     do
       {
diff --git libgomp/testsuite/Makefile.in libgomp/testsuite/Makefile.in
[...]
diff --git libgomp/testsuite/lib/libgomp.exp libgomp/testsuite/lib/libgomp.exp
index 1cb4991..ae65e68 100644
--- libgomp/testsuite/lib/libgomp.exp
+++ libgomp/testsuite/lib/libgomp.exp
@@ -36,12 +36,11 @@ load_gcc_lib fortran-modules.exp
 # Try to load a test support file, built during libgomp configuration.
 load_file libgomp-test-support.exp
 
-# Populate offload_targets_s (offloading targets separated by a space), and
-# offload_targets_s_openacc (the same, but with OpenACC names; OpenACC spells
-# some of them a little differently).
-set offload_targets_s [split $offload_targets ","]
+# Populate offload_plugins_s (offloading plugins separated by a space), and
+# offload_targets_s_openacc (offload targets with OpenACC device type names).
+set offload_plugins_s [split $offload_plugins ","]
 set offload_targets_s_openacc {}
-foreach offload_target_openacc $offload_targets_s {
+foreach offload_target_openacc $offload_plugins_s {
     # Translate to OpenACC names, or skip if not yet supported.
     switch $offload_target_openacc {
 	intelmic {
@@ -135,9 +134,9 @@ proc libgomp_init { args } {
     set always_ld_library_path ".:${blddir}/.libs"
 
     # Add liboffloadmic build directory in LD_LIBRARY_PATH to support
-    # non-fallback testing for Intel MIC targets
-    global offload_targets
-    if { [string match "*,intelmic,*" ",$offload_targets,"] } {
+    # Intel MIC offloading testing.
+    global offload_plugins
+    if { [string match "*,intelmic,*" ",$offload_plugins,"] } {
 	append always_ld_library_path ":${blddir}/../liboffloadmic/.libs"
 	append always_ld_library_path ":${blddir}/../liboffloadmic/plugin/.libs"
 	# libstdc++ is required by liboffloadmic
@@ -245,8 +244,7 @@ proc libgomp_init { args } {
     # Disable color diagnostics
     lappend ALWAYS_CFLAGS "additional_flags=-fdiagnostics-color=never"
 
-    # Used for support non-fallback offloading.
-    # Help GCC to find target mkoffload.
+    # Help GCC to find offload compilers' mkoffload.
     global offload_additional_options
     if { $offload_additional_options != "" } {
 	lappend ALWAYS_CFLAGS "additional_flags=${offload_additional_options}"
@@ -373,9 +371,8 @@ proc check_effective_target_openacc_nvidia_accel_present { } {
     } "" ]
 }
 
-# Return 1 if at least one nvidia board is present, and the nvidia device type
-# is selected by default by means of setting the environment variable
-# ACC_DEVICE_TYPE.
+# Return 1 if at least one nvidia board is present, and the OpenACC "nvidia"
+# device type is selected.
 
 proc check_effective_target_openacc_nvidia_accel_selected { } {
     if { ![check_effective_target_openacc_nvidia_accel_present] } {
@@ -388,7 +385,7 @@ proc check_effective_target_openacc_nvidia_accel_selected { } {
     return 0;
 }
 
-# Return 1 if the host target is selected for offloaded
+# Return 1 if the OpenACC "host" device type is selected.
 
 proc check_effective_target_openacc_host_selected { } {
     global offload_target_openacc
diff --git libgomp/testsuite/libgomp-test-support.exp.in libgomp/testsuite/libgomp-test-support.exp.in
index 5a724fb..1068483 100644
--- libgomp/testsuite/libgomp-test-support.exp.in
+++ libgomp/testsuite/libgomp-test-support.exp.in
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ set cuda_driver_lib "@CUDA_DRIVER_LIB@"
 set hsa_runtime_lib "@HSA_RUNTIME_LIB@"
 set hsa_kmt_lib "@HSA_KMT_LIB@"
 
-set offload_targets "@offload_targets@"
+set offload_plugins "@offload_plugins@"
