* @throws NullPointerException if any of {@code elements} is null
   */
  public static <E> ImmutableSortedSet<E> copyOf(Iterable<? extends E> elements) {
    // Hack around E not being a subtype of Comparable.
    // Unsafe, see ImmutableSortedSetFauxverideShim.
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    Ordering<E> naturalOrder = (Ordering<E>) Ordering.<Comparable<?>>natural();

   * @throws NullPointerException if any of {@code elements} is null
   */
  public static <E> ImmutableSortedSet<E> copyOf(Iterable<? extends E> elements) {
    // Hack around E not being a subtype of Comparable.
    // Unsafe, see ImmutableSortedSetFauxverideShim.
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    Ordering<E> naturalOrder = (Ordering<E>) Ordering.<Comparable<?>>natural();

   * @throws NullPointerException if any of {@code elements} is null
   */
  public static <E> ImmutableSortedMultiset<E> copyOf(Iterable<? extends E> elements) {
    // Hack around E not being a subtype of Comparable.
    // Unsafe, see ImmutableSortedMultisetFauxverideShim.
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    Ordering<E> naturalOrder = (Ordering<E>) Ordering.<Comparable<?>>natural();

          return false;
        }
      }
      return true;
    }
    return false;
  }

  /**
   * Coerces an IPv6 address into an IPv4 address.
   *
   * <p>HACK: As long as applications continue to use IPv4 addresses for indexing into tables,
   * accounting, et cetera, it may be necessary to <b>coerce</b> IPv6 addresses into IPv4 addresses.

            alternatingKeysAndValues[previousKeyIndex ^ 1] = value;
            continue entries;
          }
        }
        if (outI < i) { // if outI == i don't bother writing the values back where they came from
          alternatingKeysAndValues[outKeyIndex] = key;
          alternatingKeysAndValues[outKeyIndex ^ 1] = value;
        }
        outI++;
      }

   * throwable.getStackTrace()}. Note, however, that this method's special implementation is not
   * available for all platforms and configurations. If that implementation is unavailable, this
   * method falls back to {@code getStackTrace}. Callers that require the special implementation can
   * check its availability with {@link #lazyStackTraceIsLazy()}.
   *

  static Class<?> getArrayClass(Class<?> componentType) {
    // TODO(user): This is not the most efficient way to handle generic
    // arrays, but is there another way to extract the array class in a
    // non-hacky way (i.e. using String value class names- "[L...")?
    return Array.newInstance(componentType, 0).getClass();
  }

  // TODO(benyu): Once behavior is the same for all Java versions we support, delete this.

   * throwable.getStackTrace()}. Note, however, that this method's special implementation is not
   * available for all platforms and configurations. If that implementation is unavailable, this
   * method falls back to {@code getStackTrace}. Callers that require the special implementation can
   * check its availability with {@link #lazyStackTraceIsLazy()}.
   *

 * {@code asMap} has a few subtleties. As long as the set of keys remains unchanged, adding or
 * removing mappings does not affect the key iteration order. However, if you remove all values
 * associated with a key and then add the key back to the multimap, that key will come last in the
 * key iteration order.
 *
 * <p>The multimap does not store duplicate key-value pairs. Adding a new key-value pair equal to an
 * existing key-value pair has no effect.
 *

       * up to give roundArbitrarily equal to 2^63, so the conversion back to long overflows and
       * roundArbitrarilyAsLong is Long.MAX_VALUE. (This is the only way this condition can occur as
       * otherwise the conversion back to long pads with zero bits.) In this case we know that
       * roundArbitrarily > x. (This is important when x == Long.MAX_VALUE ==