*
   * <p><b>Note:</b> this method is now unnecessary and should be treated as deprecated. Use {@link
   * Math#toIntExact(long)} instead, but be aware that that method throws {@link
   * ArithmeticException} rather than {@link IllegalArgumentException}.
   *
   * @param value any value in the range of the {@code int} type
   * @return the {@code int} value that equals {@code value}

      this.name = checkNotNull(name);
      this.chars = checkNotNull(chars);
      try {
        this.bitsPerChar = log2(chars.length, UNNECESSARY);
      } catch (ArithmeticException e) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal alphabet length " + chars.length, e);
      }

      // Compute how input bytes are chunked. For example, with base64 we chunk every 3 bytes into