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A bytes.Buffer only has one embedded slice these days.

Ian Lance Taylor 2019-07-29 16:32:41 -07:00
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## Copying
To avoid unexpected aliasing, be careful when copying a struct from another package.
For example, the bytes.Buffer type contains a `[]byte` slice and, as an optimization
for small strings, a small byte array to which the slice may refer. If you copy a `Buffer`,
For example, the bytes.Buffer type contains a `[]byte` slice. If you copy a `Buffer`,
the slice in the copy may alias the array in the original, causing subsequent method
calls to have surprising effects.