}

    return empty
        ? new EmptyContiguousSet<C>(domain)
        : new RegularContiguousSet<C>(effectiveRange, domain);
  }

  /**
   * Returns a nonempty contiguous set containing all {@code int} values from {@code lower}
   * (inclusive) to {@code upper} (inclusive). (These are the same values contained in {@code
   * Range.closed(lower, upper)}.)
   *

  public static int compare(byte a, byte b) {
    return a - b; // safe due to restricted range
  }

  /**
   * Returns the least value present in {@code array}.
   *
   * @param array a <i>nonempty</i> array of {@code byte} values
   * @return the value present in {@code array} that is less than or equal to every other value in
   *     the array
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code array} is empty
   */

    return Platform.nullToEmpty(string);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the given string if it is nonempty; {@code null} otherwise.
   *
   * @param string the string to test and possibly return
   * @return {@code string} itself if it is nonempty; {@code null} if it is empty or null
   */
  @CheckForNull
  public static String emptyToNull(@CheckForNull String string) {

    return Platform.nullToEmpty(string);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the given string if it is nonempty; {@code null} otherwise.
   *
   * @param string the string to test and possibly return
   * @return {@code string} itself if it is nonempty; {@code null} if it is empty or null
   */
  @CheckForNull
  public static String emptyToNull(@CheckForNull String string) {

      return -1;
    } else {
      return (int) value;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Returns the least value present in {@code array}, treating values as unsigned.
   *
   * @param array a <i>nonempty</i> array of unsigned {@code int} values
   * @return the value present in {@code array} that is less than or equal to every other value in
   *     the array according to {@link #compare}

  public static int compare(byte a, byte b) {
    return toInt(a) - toInt(b);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the least value present in {@code array}, treating values as unsigned.
   *
   * @param array a <i>nonempty</i> array of {@code byte} values
   * @return the value present in {@code array} that is less than or equal to every other value in
   *     the array according to {@link #compare}

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;

/**
 * A mapping from disjoint nonempty ranges to non-null values. Queries look up the value associated
 * with the range (if any) that contains a specified key.
 *
 * <p>In contrast to {@link RangeSet}, no "coalescing" is done of {@linkplain

  @Override
  public boolean putAll(@ParametricNullness K key, Iterable<? extends V> values) {
    checkNotNull(values);
    // make sure we only call values.iterator() once
    // and we only call get(key) if values is nonempty
    if (values instanceof Collection) {
      Collection<? extends V> valueCollection = (Collection<? extends V>) values;
      return !valueCollection.isEmpty() && get(key).addAll(valueCollection);
    } else {

/**
 * A collection that maps keys to values, similar to {@link Map}, but in which each key may be
 * associated with <i>multiple</i> values. You can visualize the contents of a multimap either as a
 * map from keys to <i>nonempty</i> collections of values:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>a → 1, 2
 *   <li>b → 3
 * </ul>
 *
 * ... or as a single "flattened" collection of key-value pairs:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>a → 1
 *   <li>a → 2

     * in O(n) time stepping through the two collections.
     */
    Iterator<E> thisIterator = iterator();

    Iterator<?> thatIterator = targets.iterator();
    // known nonempty since we checked targets.size() > 1

    if (!thisIterator.hasNext()) {
      return false;
    }

    Object target = thatIterator.next();
    E current = thisIterator.next();
    try {