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+// Copyright 2019 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 cpu
+
+// We're compiling the cpu package for an unknown (software-abstracted) CPU.
+// Make CacheLinePad an empty struct and hope that the usual struct alignment
+// rules are good enough.
+
+const cacheLineSize = 0
+
+func doinit() {}