* handleException() at all.
     */
    if (throwable instanceof Error) {
      /*
       * TODO(cpovirk): Do we really want to log this if we called setException(throwable) and it
       * returned true? This was intentional (CL 46470009), but it seems odd compared to how we
       * normally handle Error.
       *

   * structure (to make it possible to throw ConcurrentModificationException in the iterator). Note
   * that we choose not to make this volatile, so we do less of a "best effort" to track such
   * errors, for better performance.
   */
  private transient int metadata;

  /** The number of elements contained in the set. */
  private transient int size;

      throw new AssertionError();
    }
  }

  private static void wrapAndThrowUnchecked(Throwable cause) {
    if (cause instanceof Error) {
      throw new ExecutionError((Error) cause);
    }
    /*
     * It's an Exception. (Or it's a non-Error, non-Exception Throwable. From my survey of such
     * classes, I believe that most users intended to extend Exception, so we'll treat it like an
     * Exception.)

    Ordering<Integer> d = numbers.compound(integers);
    Ordering<Integer> e = integers.compound(numbers);

    // This works with three levels too (IDEA falsely reports errors as noted
    // below. Both javac and eclipse handle these cases correctly.)

    Ordering<Number> f = numbers.compound(objects).compound(objects); // bad IDEA

   * structure (to make it possible to throw ConcurrentModificationException in the iterator). Note
   * that we choose not to make this volatile, so we do less of a "best effort" to track such
   * errors, for better performance.
   *
   * <p>For a new instance, where the arrays above have not yet been allocated, the value of {@code
   * metadata} is the size that the arrays should be allocated with. Once the arrays have been

  }

  /**
   * Returns an {@code InputStream} that decodes base-encoded input from the specified {@code
   * Reader}. The returned stream throws a {@link DecodingException} upon decoding-specific errors.
   */
  @J2ktIncompatible
  @GwtIncompatible // Reader,InputStream
  public abstract InputStream decodingStream(Reader reader);

  /**

   * decade that assumes that they can use checkNotNull for non-precondition checks. I had hoped to
   * take a principled stand on this, but the amount of such code is simply overwhelming. To avoid
   * creating a lot of compile errors that users would not find to be informative, we're giving in
   * and allowing callers to pass arguments that a nullness checker believes could be null.
   *