links = null;
    return result;
  }

  /*
   * For discussion of the safety of the following methods for operating on predecessors and
   * successors, see the comments near the end of CompactHashMap, noting that the methods here call
   * link(), which is defined at the end of this file.
   */

  private int getPredecessor(int entry) {
    return ((int) (link(entry) >>> 32)) - 1;
  }

 *
 * <p>This class is not intended as a direct analogue of any existing "option" or "maybe" construct
 * from other programming environments, though it may bear some similarities.
 *
 * <p>An instance of this class is serializable if its reference is absent or is a serializable
 * object.
 *

 *
 * <p>This class is not intended as a direct analogue of any existing "option" or "maybe" construct
 * from other programming environments, though it may bear some similarities.
 *
 * <p>An instance of this class is serializable if its reference is absent or is a serializable
 * object.
 *

    links = null;
    return result;
  }

  /*
   * For discussion of the safety of the following methods for operating on predecessors and
   * successors, see the comments near the end of CompactHashMap, noting that the methods here call
   * link(), which is defined at the end of this file.
   */

  private int getPredecessor(int entry) {
    return ((int) (link(entry) >>> 32)) - 1;
  }