* a given entry might not include null. The right fix for the header problems is probably to
     * define a separate MultimapLink interface with a separate "header" implementation, which
     * hopefully could avoid implementing Entry or ValueSetLink at all. (But note that that approach
     * requires us to define extra classes -- unfortunate under Android.) *Then* we could consider

    return requireLinks()[i];
  }

  private void setLink(int i, long value) {
    requireLinks()[i] = value;
  }

  /*
   * We don't define getPredecessor+getSuccessor and setPredecessor+setSuccessor here because
   * they're defined above -- including logic to add and subtract 1 to map between the values stored
   * in the predecessor/successor arrays and the indexes in the elements array that they identify.
   */

      return delegate.create(elements);
    }

    @Override
    public Entry<K, V>[] createArray(int length) {
      return delegate.createArray(length);
    }
  }

  /** Two bounds (from and to) define how to build a subMap. */
  public enum Bound {
    INCLUSIVE,
    EXCLUSIVE,
    NO_BOUND;
  }

  public static class SortedSetSubsetTestSetGenerator<E extends @Nullable Object>

      // catch absolutely everything and fall through to our 'SafeAtomicHelper'
      // The access control checks that ARFU does means the caller class has to be AbstractFuture
      // instead of SafeAtomicHelper, so we annoyingly define these here
      try {
        helper =
            new SafeAtomicHelper(
                newUpdater(Waiter.class, Thread.class, "thread"),
                newUpdater(Waiter.class, Waiter.class, "next"),

   * add(Object)} call will throw a {@code ClassCastException}.
   *
   * <p>The type specification is {@code <E extends Comparable>}, instead of the more specific
   * {@code <E extends Comparable<? super E>>}, to support classes defined without generics.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") // https://github.com/google/guava/issues/989
  public static <E extends Comparable> TreeMultiset<E> create() {
    return new TreeMultiset<>(Ordering.natural());
  }

import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
import junit.framework.AssertionFailedError;
import junit.framework.TestCase;

/**
 * Base class for JSR166 Junit TCK tests. Defines some constants, utility methods and classes, as
 * well as a simple framework for helping to make sure that assertions failing in generated threads

  }

  @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") // TreeBasedTable.create() is defined as such
  @Generates
  static <R extends Comparable, C extends Comparable, V>
      RowSortedTable<R, C, V> generateRowSortedTable(R row, C column, V value) {
    return generateTreeBasedTable(row, column, value);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") // TreeBasedTable.create() is defined as such
  @Generates

   * whose keys and values are the result of applying the provided mapping functions to the input
   * elements.
   *
   * <p>For streams with defined encounter order (as defined in the Ordering section of the {@link
   * java.util.stream} Javadoc), that order is preserved, but entries are <a
   * href="ImmutableMultimap.html#iteration">grouped by key</a>.
   *
   * <p>Example:
   *

   * and {@code distance(end, start) == -3}. As well, {@code distance(a, a)} is always zero.
   *
   * <p>Note that this function is necessarily well-defined for any discrete type.
   *
   * @return the distance as described above, or {@link Long#MIN_VALUE} or {@link Long#MAX_VALUE} if
   *     the distance is too small or too large, respectively.
   */

 * "numbers") into two sections; this can be done below a certain value, above a certain value,
 * below all values or above all values. With this object defined in this way, an interval can
 * always be represented by a pair of {@code Cut} instances.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 */
@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") // https://github.com/google/guava/issues/989
@GwtCompatible