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-// Copyright 2018 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
-// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
-// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-// This file is here just to make the go tool happy. It allows
-// empty function declarations (no function body).
-// It is used with "go:linkname".