ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos);

    out.writeObject(original);

    byte[] handle = toByteArray(baseWireHandle + handleOffset);
    byte[] ref = prepended(TC_REFERENCE, handle);
    bos.write(ref);

    return bos.toByteArray();
  }

  private static byte[] prepended(byte b, byte[] array) {
    byte[] out = new byte[array.length + 1];

       * TODO(cpovirk): Consider removing @CheckForNull here, as we've done with the other methods'
       * errorMessageTemplate parameters: It is unlikely that callers intend for their string
       * template to be null (though we do handle that case gracefully at runtime). I've left this
       * one as it is because one of our users has defined a wrapper API around Preconditions,

    // The SynchronizedObject subclasses don't need a writeObject method since
    // they don't contain any non-transient member variables, while the
    // following writeObject() handles the SynchronizedObject members.

    @GwtIncompatible // java.io.ObjectOutputStream
    @J2ktIncompatible
    private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream stream) throws IOException {
      synchronized (mutex) {

   * an element in the set. For example, {@code contains} returns {@code false} when passed an
   * object that equals a set member, but isn't the same instance. This behavior is similar to the
   * way {@code IdentityHashMap} handles key lookups.
   *
   * @since 8.0
   */
  public static <E extends @Nullable Object> Set<E> newIdentityHashSet() {
    return Collections.newSetFromMap(Maps.<E, Boolean>newIdentityHashMap());
  }

  /**

       * TODO(cpovirk): Consider removing @CheckForNull here, as we've done with the other methods'
       * errorMessageTemplate parameters: It is unlikely that callers intend for their string
       * template to be null (though we do handle that case gracefully at runtime). I've left this
       * one as it is because one of our users has defined a wrapper API around Preconditions,

   * element is found, {@code defaultValue} will be returned from this method and the iterator will
   * be left exhausted: its {@code hasNext()} method will return {@code false}. Note that this can
   * usually be handled more naturally using {@code tryFind(iterator, predicate).or(defaultValue)}.
   *
   * @since 7.0
   */
  // For discussion of this signature, see the corresponding overload of *Iterables*.find.
  @CheckForNull

   * element is found, {@code defaultValue} will be returned from this method and the iterator will
   * be left exhausted: its {@code hasNext()} method will return {@code false}. Note that this can
   * usually be handled more naturally using {@code tryFind(iterator, predicate).or(defaultValue)}.
   *
   * @since 7.0
   */
  // For discussion of this signature, see the corresponding overload of *Iterables*.find.
  @CheckForNull