} else {
      return unsafeDoBackward(b);
    }
  }

  /*
   * LegacyConverter violates the contract of Converter by allowing its doForward and doBackward
   * methods to accept null. We could avoid having unchecked casts in Converter.java itself if we
   * could perform a cast to LegacyConverter, but we can't because it's an internal-only class.
   *

    } else {
      return unsafeDoBackward(b);
    }
  }

  /*
   * LegacyConverter violates the contract of Converter by allowing its doForward and doBackward
   * methods to accept null. We could avoid having unchecked casts in Converter.java itself if we
   * could perform a cast to LegacyConverter, but we can't because it's an internal-only class.
   *