Equal (bytes/bytes.go)

Standard Go package providing byte slice manipulation functions.

// Source: https://github.com/golang/go | License: BSD-3-Clause | Copyright 2009 The Go Authors
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// Package bytes implements functions for the manipulation of byte slices.
// It is analogous to the facilities of the [strings] package.
package bytes

import (
	"internal/bytealg"
	"internal/stringslite"
	"math/bits"
	"unicode"
	"unicode/utf8"
	_ "unsafe" // for linkname
)

// Equal reports whether a and b
// are the same length and contain the same bytes.
// A nil argument is equivalent to an empty slice.
func Equal(a, b []byte) bool {
	// Neither cmd/compile nor gccgo al

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