* identical inputs: This sounds like it ought to be a problem here, since the goals of this class
   * include testing that {@code equals()} is reflexive and is tolerant of {@code null}. However,
   * there's no problem. The reason: {@link EqualsTester} tests {@code null} and identical inputs
   * directly against {@code equals()} rather than through the {@code Equivalence}.
   */

   * identical inputs: This sounds like it ought to be a problem here, since the goals of this class
   * include testing that {@code equals()} is reflexive and is tolerant of {@code null}. However,
   * there's no problem. The reason: {@link EqualsTester} tests {@code null} and identical inputs
   * directly against {@code equals()} rather than through the {@code Equivalence}.
   */

   * all references {@code x}, {@code y}, and {@code z} (any of which may be null):
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>{@code equivalent(x, x)} is true (<i>reflexive</i> property)
   *   <li>{@code equivalent(x, y)} and {@code equivalent(y, x)} each return the same result
   *       (<i>symmetric</i> property)

        try {
          /*
           * We first use reflection to check whether VarHandle exists. If we instead just tried to
           * load our class directly (which would trigger non-reflective loading of VarHandle) from
           * within a `try` block, then an error might be thrown even before we enter the `try`
           * block: https://github.com/google/truth/issues/333#issuecomment-765652454
           *

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    Some tests need reflective access to the internals of these packages. It is only the
    tests themselves and not the code being tested that needs that access, though there's no
    obvious way to ensure that.

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    Some tests need reflective access to the internals of these packages. It is only the
    tests themselves and not the code being tested that needs that access, though there's no
    obvious way to ensure that.