.compare(
                                left.getValue(), right.getValue(), Ordering.natural().nullsFirst())
                            .result();
                      }
                    }.sortedCopy(insertionOrder);
                  }
                })
            .named("TreeMultimap nullsFirst")
            .withFeatures(

   *
   * <p><b>Java 8+ users:</b> Use {@code Comparator.nullsFirst(thisComparator)} instead.
   */
  // type parameter <S> lets us avoid the extra <String> in statements like:
  // Ordering<String> o = Ordering.<String>natural().nullsFirst();
  @GwtCompatible(serializable = true)
  public <S extends T> Ordering<@Nullable S> nullsFirst() {
    return new NullsFirstOrdering<S>(this);
  }

  /**

    Ordering<@Nullable Integer> ordering = Ordering.<Integer>natural().<Integer>nullsFirst();
    Helpers.<@Nullable Integer>testComparator(ordering, null, Integer.MIN_VALUE, 0, 1);

    new EqualsTester()
        .addEqualityGroup(ordering, Ordering.natural().nullsFirst())
        .addEqualityGroup(numberOrdering.nullsFirst())
        .addEqualityGroup(Ordering.natural())
        .testEquals();
  }

    Ordering<@Nullable Integer> ordering = Ordering.<Integer>natural().<Integer>nullsFirst();
    Helpers.<@Nullable Integer>testComparator(ordering, null, Integer.MIN_VALUE, 0, 1);

    new EqualsTester()
        .addEqualityGroup(ordering, Ordering.natural().nullsFirst())
        .addEqualityGroup(numberOrdering.nullsFirst())
        .addEqualityGroup(Ordering.natural())
        .testEquals();
  }

   *
   * <p><b>Java 8+ users:</b> Use {@code Comparator.nullsFirst(thisComparator)} instead.
   */
  // type parameter <S> lets us avoid the extra <String> in statements like:
  // Ordering<String> o = Ordering.<String>natural().nullsFirst();
  @GwtCompatible(serializable = true)
  public <S extends T> Ordering<@Nullable S> nullsFirst() {
    return new NullsFirstOrdering<S>(this);
  }

  /**

  @Override
  protected <K, V> NavigableMap<K, V> create() {
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    NavigableMap<K, V> innermost =
        new SafeTreeMap<>((Comparator<? super K>) Ordering.natural().nullsFirst());
    TestMap<K, V> inner = new TestMap<>(innermost, mutex);
    NavigableMap<K, V> outer = Synchronized.navigableMap(inner, mutex);
    return outer;
  }

      SortedMap<K, V> delegate, Comparator<? super K> comparator) {
    return new ImmutableSortedMap<K, V>(delegate, comparator);
  }

  /*
   * We don't permit nulls, but we wrap every comparator with nullsFirst().
   * Why? We want for queries like containsKey(null) to return false, but the
   * GWT SortedMap implementation that we delegate to throws
   * NullPointerException if the comparator does. Since our construction

    assertEquals(comparator, elementSet.comparator());
  }

  public void testNullAcceptingComparator() throws Exception {
    Comparator<@Nullable String> comparator = Ordering.<String>natural().<String>nullsFirst();
    TreeMultiset<@Nullable String> ms = TreeMultiset.create(comparator);

    ms.add("b");
    ms.add(null);
    ms.add("a");
    ms.add("b");
    ms.add(null, 2);

   */
  private @interface GwtTransient {}

  /**
   * Compares strings in natural order except that null comes immediately before a given value. This
   * works better than Ordering.natural().nullsFirst() because, if null comes before all other
   * values, it lies outside the submap/submultiset ranges we test, and the variety of tests that
   * exercise null handling fail on those subcollections.
   */

    assertEquals(comparator, elementSet.comparator());
  }

  public void testNullAcceptingComparator() throws Exception {
    Comparator<@Nullable String> comparator = Ordering.<String>natural().<String>nullsFirst();
    TreeMultiset<@Nullable String> ms = TreeMultiset.create(comparator);

    ms.add("b");
    ms.add(null);
    ms.add("a");
    ms.add("b");
    ms.add(null, 2);