Based on my cursory reading of the code, it appear...

# announcements

[ean5533]

Based on my cursory reading of the code, it appears that the answer is yes:

https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/d646afabb24685729d51a23bcee74434a2742ee6/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/collections/Maps.kt#L66
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/d646afabb24685729d51a23bcee74434a2742ee6/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/collections/Maps.kt#L259

But I'm far from an expert on the subject