}

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // C can only be @Nullable Character or Character
  protected @NonNull C cellValue(Character character) {
    return (C) character;
  }

  // Only safe wrt. ClassCastException. Not null-safe (can be used to test expected Table NPEs)
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  protected C nullableCellValue(@Nullable Character character) {
    return (C) character;
  }

      if (!columnIterator.hasNext()) {
        rowEntry = rowIterator.next();
        columnIterator = rowEntry.getValue().entrySet().iterator();
      }
      /*
       * requireNonNull is safe because:
       *
       * - columnIterator started off pointing to an empty iterator, so we must have entered the
       *   `if` body above at least once. Thus, if we got this far, that `if` body initialized

      switch (balanceFactor()) {
        case -2:
          // requireNonNull is safe because right must exist in order to get a negative factor.
          requireNonNull(right);
          if (right.balanceFactor() > 0) {
            right = right.rotateRight();
          }
          return rotateLeft();
        case 2:
          // requireNonNull is safe because left must exist in order to get a positive factor.

            try {
                // Exponential backoff with overflow protection - ensure safe calculation
                if (retryDelayMs > 0) {
                    // Safe calculation preventing overflow: use Math.max(0, retryCount - 1) and limit shift
                    int safeShift = Math.min(MAX_BACKOFF_SHIFT, Math.max(0, retryCount - 1));

    @WeakOuter
    final class Task implements Runnable {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        lock.lock();
        try {
          /*
           * requireNonNull is safe because Task isn't run (or at least it doesn't succeed in taking
           * the lock) until after it's scheduled and the runningTask field is set.
           */
          if (requireNonNull(runningTask).isCancelled()) {

  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // C can only be @Nullable Character or Character
  protected @NonNull C cellValue(Character character) {
    return (C) character;
  }

  // Only safe wrt. ClassCastException. Not null-safe (can be used to test expected Table NPEs)
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  protected C nullableCellValue(@Nullable Character character) {
    return (C) character;
  }

 * comparator is not consistent with {@code equals}.
 *
 * <p>The {@code standard} methods are not guaranteed to be thread-safe, even when all of the
 * methods that they depend on are thread-safe.
 *
 * @author Mike Bostock
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 * @since 2.0
 */
@GwtCompatible

    @Nullable ImmutableMapEntry<K, V>[] valueTable = createEntryArray(tableSize);
    /*
     * The cast is safe: n==entryArray.length means that we have filled the whole array with Entry
     * instances, in which case it is safe to cast it from an array of nullable entries to an array
     * of non-null entries.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("nullness")
    Entry<K, V>[] entries =

// traverseAndHeal - traverses on-disk data and performs healing
// according to settings. At each "safe" point it also checks if an
// external quit signal has been received and quits if so. Since the
// healing traversal may be mutating on-disk data when an external
// quit signal is received, this routine cannot quit immediately and
// has to wait until a safe point is reached, such as between scanning
// two objects.

 * useForNull} has no effect on the instance it is invoked on! You must store and use the new joiner
 * instance returned by the method. This makes joiners thread-safe, and safe to store as {@code
 * static final} constants.
 *
 * {@snippet :
 * // Bad! Do not do this!
 * Joiner joiner = Joiner.on(',');
 * joiner.skipNulls(); // does nothing!
 * return joiner.join("wrong", null, "wrong");