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+/*
+ * Copyright 2010-2024 JetBrains s.r.o. and Kotlin Programming Language contributors.
+ * Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0 license that can be found in the LICENSE.txt file.
+ */
+
+package kotlinx.io.bytestring
+
+// Incremental compilation doesn't work smoothly with OptionalExpectation (see KT-66317),
+// so we have to explicitly actualize the annotation.
+@Target(AnnotationTarget.FIELD)
+internal actual annotation class BenignDataRace actual constructor()
+