*/
  public static int compare(float a, float b) {
    return Float.compare(a, b);
  }

  /**
   * Returns {@code true} if {@code value} represents a real number. This is equivalent to, but not
   * necessarily implemented as, {@code !(Float.isInfinite(value) || Float.isNaN(value))}.
   *
   * <p><b>Java 8+ users:</b> use {@link Float#isFinite(float)} instead.
   *

 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package com.google.common.util.concurrent;

import static org.mockito.Answers.CALLS_REAL_METHODS;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.doReturn;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;

import com.google.common.base.Function;
import com.google.common.collect.ForwardingObject;

    List<T> list = Arrays.asList(strictlyOrderedElements);

    // for use calling Collection.toArray later
    T[] emptyArray = Platform.newArray(strictlyOrderedElements, 0);

    // shoot me, but I didn't want to deal with wildcards through the whole test
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    Scenario<T> starter = new Scenario<>((Ordering<T>) ordering, list, emptyArray);
    verifyScenario(starter, 0);
  }

    List<T> list = Arrays.asList(strictlyOrderedElements);

    // for use calling Collection.toArray later
    T[] emptyArray = Platform.newArray(strictlyOrderedElements, 0);

    // shoot me, but I didn't want to deal with wildcards through the whole test
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    Scenario<T> starter = new Scenario<>((Ordering<T>) ordering, list, emptyArray);
    verifyScenario(starter, 0);
  }

      // It's a weird formula, but tests prove it works.
      int adjust = size() - 1;
      for (int i = 0; i < axes.size(); i++) {
        adjust *= 31;
        adjust = ~~adjust;
        // in GWT, we have to deal with integer overflow carefully
      }
      int hash = 1;
      for (Set<E> axis : axes) {
        hash = 31 * hash + (size() / axis.size() * axis.hashCode());

        hash = ~~hash;
      }

    T[] castBuffer = (T[]) buffer;
    Arrays.sort(castBuffer, 0, bufferSize, comparator);
    if (bufferSize > k) {
      Arrays.fill(buffer, k, buffer.length, null);
      bufferSize = k;
      threshold = buffer[k - 1];
    }
    // Up to bufferSize, all elements of buffer are real Ts (not null unless T includes null)

import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;

/**
 * Implementation of {@link Multisets#unmodifiableSortedMultiset(SortedMultiset)}, split out into
 * its own file so it can be GWT emulated (to deal with the differing elementSet() types in GWT and
 * non-GWT).
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtCompatible(emulated = true)
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault

    future2 = null;

    /*
     * Futures should be collected even if combiner never runs. This is kind of a silly test, since
     * the combiner is almost certain to hold its own reference to the futures, and a real app would
     * hold a reference to the executor and thus to the combiner. What we really care about is that
     * the futures are released once the combiner is done running. But we happen to provide this

     * Windows under Java 8, at least as of this writing.
     *
     * Under Windows in particular, we want to test that:
     *
     * - Under Java 9+, createTempDir() succeeds because it can look up the *real* username, rather
     * than relying on the one from the system property.
     *
     * - Under Java 8, createTempDir() fails because it falls back to the bogus username from the
     * system property.
     */

   * next} field is lazily initialized. The type of that field would be {@code @Nullable T}, and the
   * code would be responsible for populating a "real" {@code T} (which might still be the value
   * {@code null}!) before returning it to callers. Depending on how the code is structured, a
   * nullness analysis might not understand that the field has been populated. To avoid that problem