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 * Copyright (c) 2012-2017 The ANTLR Project. All rights reserved.
 * Use of this file is governed by the BSD 3-clause license that
 * can be found in the LICENSE.txt file in the project root.
 */
package org.antlr.v4.runtime.misc;

This default implementation of EqualityComparator uses object equality for comparisons by calling Object.hashCode and Object.equals. 
Author:
Sam Harwell/**
 * This default implementation of {@link EqualityComparator} uses object equality
 * for comparisons by calling {@link Object#hashCode} and {@link Object#equals}.
 *
 * @author Sam Harwell
 */
public final class ObjectEqualityComparator extends AbstractEqualityComparator<Object> {
	public static final ObjectEqualityComparator INSTANCE = new ObjectEqualityComparator();

	
{@inheritDoc}
This implementation returns obj.hashCode().
/**
	 * {@inheritDoc}
	 *
	 * <p>This implementation returns
	 * {@code obj.}{@link Object#hashCode hashCode()}.</p>
	 */
	@Override
	public int hashCode(Object obj) {
		if (obj == null) {
			return 0;
		}

		return obj.hashCode();
	}

	
{@inheritDoc}
This implementation relies on object equality. If both objects are null, this method returns true. Otherwise if only a is null, this method returns false. Otherwise, this method returns the result of a.equals(b).
/**
	 * {@inheritDoc}
	 *
	 * <p>This implementation relies on object equality. If both objects are
	 * {@code null}, this method returns {@code true}. Otherwise if only
	 * {@code a} is {@code null}, this method returns {@code false}. Otherwise,
	 * this method returns the result of
	 * {@code a.}{@link Object#equals equals}{@code (b)}.</p>
	 */
	@Override
	public boolean equals(Object a, Object b) {
		if (a == null) {
			return b == null;
		}

		return a.equals(b);
	}

}