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# Note: We intentionally don't add the flags we'd need to make Flags and Enums
# work. That's because the Proguard configuration required to make them work on
# optimized code would preclude lots of optimization, like converting enums
# into ints.

# Throwables uses internal APIs for lazy stack trace resolution
-dontnote sun.misc.SharedSecrets
-keep class sun.misc.SharedSecrets {
  *** getJavaLangAccess(...);
}
-dontnote sun.misc.JavaLangAccess

    }

    @Override
    public ArtifactRepository getRepository() {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public void setRepository(ArtifactRepository remoteRepository) {
        // intentionally blank
    }

 * An implementation of {@link DataOutput} that uses little-endian byte ordering for writing {@code
 * char}, {@code short}, {@code int}, {@code float}, {@code double}, and {@code long} values.
 *
 * <p><b>Note:</b> This class intentionally violates the specification of its supertype {@code
 * DataOutput}, which explicitly requires big-endian byte order.
 *
 * @author Chris Nokleberg
 * @author Keith Bottner
 * @since 8.0
 */
@J2ktIncompatible

{* ../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial011_an_py39.py hl[22] *}

/// tip

All this might seem contrived. And it might not be very clear how is it useful yet.

These examples are intentionally simple, but show how it all works.

In the chapters about security, there are utility functions that are implemented in this same way.

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@GwtCompatible
final class AllEqualOrdering extends Ordering<@Nullable Object> implements Serializable {
  static final AllEqualOrdering INSTANCE = new AllEqualOrdering();

  @Override
  @SuppressWarnings("UnusedVariable") // intentionally weird Comparator
  public int compare(@Nullable Object left, @Nullable Object right) {
    return 0;
  }

  @Override
  public <E extends @Nullable Object> List<E> sortedCopy(Iterable<E> iterable) {