* <p>If you are using Java 8+, this class is now obsolete. Most of its functionality is now
 * provided by {@link java.util.stream.Stream Stream} and by {@link Comparator} itself, and the rest
 * can now be found as static methods in our new {@link Comparators} class. See each method below
 * for further instructions. Whenever possible, you should change any references of type {@code

             * A word about communicating header info to andx smbs
             *
             * This is where we recursively invoke the provided andx smb
             * object to write it's parameter words and bytes to our outgoing
             * array. Incedentally when these andx smbs are created they are not
             * necessarily populated with header data because they're not writing

      /*
       * requireNonNull is safe because propertyNames contains only non-null elements.
       *
       * Accordingly, we have it annotated as returning `Enumeration<? extends Object>` in our
       * prototype checker's JDK. However, the checker still sees the return type as plain
       * `Enumeration<?>`, probably because of one of the following two bugs (and maybe those two

      /*
       * requireNonNull is safe because propertyNames contains only non-null elements.
       *
       * Accordingly, we have it annotated as returning `Enumeration<? extends Object>` in our
       * prototype checker's JDK. However, the checker still sees the return type as plain
       * `Enumeration<?>`, probably because of one of the following two bugs (and maybe those two

  //    There is currently nothing that enforces that the write to inputFuture in the constructor is
  //    visible to done(). This is because there is no happens before edge between the write and a
  //    (hypothetical) unsafe read by our caller. Note: adding 'volatile' does not fix this issue,
  //    it would just add an edge such that if done() observed non-null, then it would also

    // Serial form:
    // 1 signed byte for the strategy
    // 1 unsigned byte for the number of hash functions
    // 1 big endian int, the number of longs in our bitset
    // N big endian longs of our bitset
    DataOutputStream dout = new DataOutputStream(out);
    dout.writeByte(SignedBytes.checkedCast(strategy.ordinal()));

    a.set(0, 1.0);
    Thread t =
        newStartedThread(
            new CheckedRunnable() {
              @Override
              @SuppressWarnings("ThreadPriorityCheck") // doing our best to test for races
              public void realRun() {
                while (!a.compareAndSet(0, 2.0, 3.0)) {
                  Thread.yield();
                }
              }
            });

		return "", fmt.Errorf("cannot create revision tag %q: found existing control plane revision with same name", opts.Tag)
	}

	// find canonical revision webhook to base our tag webhook off of
	revWebhooks, err := GetWebhooksWithRevision(ctx, client.Kube(), opts.Revision)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}
	if len(revWebhooks) == 0 {

     */
    @SuppressWarnings("nullness")
    Object[] result = ObjectArrays.toArrayImpl(this);
    return result;
  }

  @Override
  @SuppressWarnings("nullness") // b/192354773 in our checker affects toArray declarations
  public <T extends @Nullable Object> T[] toArray(T[] other) {
    return ObjectArrays.toArrayImpl(this, other);
  }

  @Override

      case 1:
        /*
         * requireNonNull is safe because the callers promise to put non-null objects in the first
         * `length` array elements.
         */
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // our callers put only E instances into the array
        E onlyElement = (E) requireNonNull(elements[0]);
        return of(onlyElement);
      default:
        /*