* @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();

  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.

   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if any two keys are equal according to their natural ordering
   */
  public static <K, V> ImmutableSortedMap<K, V> copyOf(Map<? extends K, ? extends V> map) {
    // Hack around K not being a subtype of Comparable.
    // Unsafe, see ImmutableSortedSetFauxverideShim.
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    Ordering<K> naturalOrder = (Ordering<K>) NATURAL_ORDER;

   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if any two keys are equal according to their natural ordering
   */
  public static <K, V> ImmutableSortedMap<K, V> copyOf(Map<? extends K, ? extends V> map) {
    // Hack around K not being a subtype of Comparable.
    // Unsafe, see ImmutableSortedSetFauxverideShim.
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    Ordering<K> naturalOrder = (Ordering<K>) NATURAL_ORDER;

   * @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();

          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.

/**
 * A dummy superclass to support GWT serialization of the element type of a {@link Range}. The GWT
 * supersource for this class contains a field of type {@code C}.
 *
 * <p>For details about this hack, see {@code GwtSerializationDependencies}, which takes the same
 * approach but with a subclass rather than a superclass.
 *
 * <p>TODO(cpovirk): Consider applying this subclass approach to our other types.
 */

   * @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();

   * @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();

  // non-null instance of Ordering.natural().
  // (cpovirk: Is sortedDelegate's comparator really ever null?)
  // The comparator will likely also differ because of our nullAccepting hack.
  // See the bottom of the file for more information about it.
  private final transient Comparator<? super K> comparator;

  ImmutableSortedMap(SortedMap<K, V> delegate, Comparator<? super K> comparator) {