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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.
+
+//go:build darwin || dragonfly || freebsd || linux || netbsd || openbsd
+// +build darwin dragonfly freebsd linux netbsd openbsd
+
+package base
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"reflect"
+	"syscall"
+	"unsafe"
+)
+
+// TODO(mdempsky): Is there a higher-level abstraction that still
+// works well for iimport?
+
+// mapFile returns length bytes from the file starting at the
+// specified offset as a string.
+func MapFile(f *os.File, offset, length int64) (string, error) {
+	// POSIX mmap: "The implementation may require that off is a
+	// multiple of the page size."
+	x := offset & int64(os.Getpagesize()-1)
+	offset -= x
+	length += x
+
+	buf, err := syscall.Mmap(int(f.Fd()), offset, int(length), syscall.PROT_READ, syscall.MAP_SHARED)
+	keepAlive(f)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+
+	buf = buf[x:]
+	pSlice := (*reflect.SliceHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(&buf))
+
+	var res string
+	pString := (*reflect.StringHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(&res))
+
+	pString.Data = pSlice.Data
+	pString.Len = pSlice.Len
+
+	return res, nil
+}
+
+// keepAlive is a reimplementation of runtime.KeepAlive, which wasn't
+// added until Go 1.7, whereas we need to compile with Go 1.4.
+var keepAlive = func(interface{}) {}