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doc: demonstrate dangers of buffer.slice()
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PR-URL: #41628
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
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shalvah authored and BethGriggs committed Jan 24, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -3425,6 +3425,14 @@ console.log(copiedBuf.toString());

console.log(buf.toString());
// Prints: buffer

// With buf.slice(), the original buffer is modified.
const notReallyCopiedBuf = buf.slice();
notReallyCopiedBuf[0]++;
console.log(notReallyCopiedBuf.toString());
// Prints: cuffer
console.log(buf.toString());
// Also prints: cuffer (!)
```

```cjs
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console.log(buf.toString());
// Prints: buffer

// With buf.slice(), the original buffer is modified.
const notReallyCopiedBuf = buf.slice();
notReallyCopiedBuf[0]++;
console.log(notReallyCopiedBuf.toString());
// Prints: cuffer
console.log(buf.toString());
// Also prints: cuffer (!)
```

### `buf.swap16()`
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