* Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code
 *       ImmutableList.get} returns {@code E}, but that value is never {@code null}. (Accordingly,

      // permitted not to throw because it would be a no-op
    }
    expectUnchanged();
  }

  @MapFeature.Require(value = SUPPORTS_PUT, absent = ALLOWS_NULL_KEY_QUERIES)
  public void testReplace_absentNullKeyUnsupported() {
    try {
      getMap().replace(null, v3());
    } catch (NullPointerException tolerated) {
      // permitted not to throw because it would be a no-op
    }
    expectUnchanged();
  }

 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code
 *       ImmutableList.get} returns {@code E}, but that value is never {@code null}. (Accordingly,

 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code
 *       ImmutableList.get} returns {@code E}, but that value is never {@code null}. (Accordingly,

   * have the provided key, an empty collection is returned.
   *
   * <p>Changes to the returned collection will update the underlying multimap, and vice versa.
   *
   * <p>Because a {@code SortedSetMultimap} has unique sorted values for a given key, this method
   * returns a {@link SortedSet}, instead of the {@link java.util.Collection} specified in the
   * {@link Multimap} interface.
   */
  @Override

  private transient volatile @Nullable CacheEntry<K, V> cacheEntry2;

  MapRetrievalCache(Map<K, V> backingMap) {
    super(backingMap);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // Safe because we only cast if key is found in map.
  @Override
  @Nullable V get(Object key) {
    checkNotNull(key);
    V value = getIfCached(key);
    if (value != null) {
      return value;
    }

 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code
 *       ImmutableList.get} returns {@code E}, but that value is never {@code null}. (Accordingly,

 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code
 *       ImmutableList.get} returns {@code E}, but that value is never {@code null}. (Accordingly,

 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code
 *       ImmutableList.get} returns {@code E}, but that value is never {@code null}. (Accordingly,

 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code
 *       ImmutableList.get} returns {@code E}, but that value is never {@code null}. (Accordingly,