// You can also arbitrarily assign a more restricted type - not an intended
    // feature, exactly, but unavoidable (I think) and harmless
    Ordering<Integer> unusedL = objects.compound(numbers);

    // This correctly doesn't work:
    // Ordering<Object> unusedM = numbers.compound(objects);

    // Sadly, the following works in javac 1.6, but at least it fails for
    // eclipse, and is *correctly* highlighted red in IDEA.

    }
  }

  /**
   * Creates any necessary but nonexistent parent directories of the specified file. Note that if
   * this operation fails it may have succeeded in creating some (but not all) of the necessary
   * parent directories.
   *
   * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs, or if any necessary but nonexistent parent
   *     directories of the specified file could not be created.

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 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *

   * a robolectric test.
   *
   * The functionality that will fail without a valid Context is primarily Cookies and URL Domain handling, but
   * may expand in the future.
   */
  fun initialize(applicationContext: Context) {
    if (PlatformRegistry.applicationContext == null) {
      // Make sure we aren't using an Activity or Service Context

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    return accessibleObject.getDeclaredAnnotations();
  }

  // We ought to be able to implement GenericDeclaration instead its parent AnnotatedElement.
  // That would give us this method declaration. But for some reason, implementing
  // GenericDeclaration leads to weird errors in Android tests:
  // IncompatibleClassChangeError: interface not implemented

      }
      throw new AssertionError(
          "expected to throw " + expectedThrowable.getSimpleName() + " but threw " + t, t);
    }
    if (userPassedSupplier) {
      throw new AssertionError(
          "expected to throw "
              + expectedThrowable.getSimpleName()
              + " but returned result: "
              + result);
    } else {

    // This class can make no hard guarantees.  The methods in this class are inherently flaky, but
    // we try hard to make them robust in practice.  We could additionally try to add in a system
    // load timeout multiplier.  Or we could try to use a CPU time bound instead of wall clock time
    // bound.  But these ideas are harder to implement.  We do not try to detect or handle a
    // user-specified -XX:+DisableExplicitGC.