*/
  private @interface GwtTransient {}

  /**
   * Compares strings in natural order except that null comes immediately before a given value. This
   * works better than Ordering.natural().nullsFirst() because, if null comes before all other
   * values, it lies outside the submap/submultiset ranges we test, and the variety of tests that
   * exercise null handling fail on those subcollections.
   */

    }

    @CanIgnoreReturnValue
    @Override
    Builder<E> combine(ImmutableSet.Builder<E> builder) {
      copyIfNecessary();
      Builder<E> other = (Builder<E>) builder;
      for (int i = 0; i < other.n; i++) {
        add(other.elements[i]);
      }
      return this;
    }

    /**
     * Returns a newly-created {@code ImmutableSortedSet} based on the contents of the {@code

          "Unexpected key/value pair passed to removalListener",
          notification.getKey(),
          notification.getValue());
    }

    // All of the seed values should have been visible, so we should have gotten removal
    // notifications for all of them.
    for (int i = 0; i < nSeededEntries; i++) {
      assertEquals("b" + i, removalNotifications.get("b" + i));
    }

   * 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;

  /** Constructs a new empty instance of {@code CompactHashSet}. */

   *
   * <p>If {@code expectedSize} is exactly the number of entries added to the builder before {@link
   * Builder#build} is called, the builder is likely to perform better than an unsized {@link
   * #builder()} would have.
   *
   * <p>It is not specified if any performance benefits apply if {@code expectedSize} is close to,
   * but not exactly, the number of entries added to the builder.

   */
  public static int hashCode(float value) {
    // TODO(kevinb): is there a better way, that's still gwt-safe?
    return ((Float) value).hashCode();
  }

  /**
   * Compares the two specified {@code float} values using {@link Float#compare(float, float)}. You
   * may prefer to invoke that method directly; this method exists only for consistency with the
   * other utilities in this package.
   *

      if (newArg == null || Objects.equal(args.get(i), newArg)) {
        if (params.get(i).getType().getRawType().isEnum()) {
          continue; // Nothing better we can do if it's single-value enum
        }
        throw new ParameterHasNoDistinctValueException(params.get(i));
      }
      newArgs.set(i, newArg);
      tester.addEqualityGroup(createInstance(factory, newArgs));

        queue[index] = parentElement;
        queue[parentIndex] = x;
        return parentIndex;
      }
      queue[index] = x;
      return index;
    }

    // About the term "aunt node": it's better to leave gender out of it, but for this the English
    // language has nothing for us. Except for the whimsical neologism "pibling" (!) which we
    // obviously could not expect to increase anyone's understanding of the code.

   * {@link TreeSet} or the {@link Map#keySet} of an {@code IdentityHashMap}.
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> The returned view performs slightly better when {@code set1} is the smaller of
   * the two sets. If you have reason to believe one of your sets will generally be smaller than the
   * other, pass it first. Unfortunately, since this method sets the generic type of the returned

    }

    @Override
    public CharMatcher and(CharMatcher other) {
      return other.matches(match) ? super.and(other) : other;
    }

    @Override
    public CharMatcher or(CharMatcher other) {
      return other.matches(match) ? any() : this;
    }

    @GwtIncompatible // used only from other GwtIncompatible code
    @Override
    void setBits(BitSet table) {