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// Copyright 2012 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.
package flate
// forwardCopy is like the built-in copy function except that it always goes
// forward from the start, even if the dst and src overlap.
// It is equivalent to:
// for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
// mem[dst+i] = mem[src+i]
// }
func forwardCopy(mem []byte, dst, src, n int) {
if dst <= src {
copy(mem[dst:dst+n], mem[src:src+n])
return
}
for {
if dst >= src+n {
copy(mem[dst:dst+n], mem[src:src+n])
return
}
// There is some forward overlap. The destination
// will be filled with a repeated pattern of mem[src:src+k].
// We copy one instance of the pattern here, then repeat.
// Each time around this loop k will double.
k := dst - src
copy(mem[dst:dst+k], mem[src:src+k])
n -= k
dst += k
}
}