cmd/dist: use bytes.Buffer for code generation

This belongs to a series of clean-up changes (see below) for cmd/dist.
This is change (8).

These changes include:
(1)  apply minor fixes
(2)  restore behavior of branchtag
(3)  unleash bootstrap optimization for windows
(4)  use standard generated code header
(5)  remove trivial variables + functions
(6)  move functions for the better
(7)  simplify code segments
(8)  use bytes.Buffer for code generation
(9)  rename variables + functions
(10) remove doc.go

Change-Id: I2d5a071eb8e14690325612271432fdc5f43b108b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/61014
Run-TryBot: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
2 files changed
tree: 990d84baca62f5a7971e8a5a061fb7e1a8d73b4e
  1. .github/
  2. api/
  3. doc/
  4. lib/
  5. misc/
  6. src/
  7. test/
  8. .gitattributes
  9. .gitignore
  10. AUTHORS
  11. CONTRIBUTING.md
  12. CONTRIBUTORS
  13. favicon.ico
  14. LICENSE
  15. PATENTS
  16. README.md
  17. robots.txt
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