Integrated: 8303689: javac -Xlint could/should report on "dangling" doc comments

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 22:04:30 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <jjg at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review the updates to support a proposed new `-Xlint:dangling-doc-comments` option.
> 
> The work can be thought of as in 3 parts:
> 
> 1. An update to the `javac` internal class `DeferredLintHandler` so that it is possible to specify the appropriately configured `Lint` object when it is time to consider whether to generate the diagnostic or not.
> 
> 2. Updates to the `javac` front end to record "dangling docs comments" found near the beginning of a declaration, and to report them using an instance of `DeferredLintHandler`. This allows the warnings to be enabled or disabled using the standard mechanisms for `-Xlint` and `@SuppressWarnings`.  The procedure for handling dangling doc comments is described in this comment in `JavacParser`.
> 
>      *  Dangling documentation comments are handled as follows.
>      *  1. {@code Scanner} adds all doc comments to a queue of
>      *     recent doc comments. The queue is flushed whenever
>      *     it is known that the recent doc comments should be
>      *     ignored and should not cause any warnings.
>      *  2. The primary documentation comment is the one obtained
>      *     from the first token of any declaration.
>      *     (using {@code token.getDocComment()}.
>      *  3. At the end of the "signature" of the declaration
>      *     (that is, before any initialization or body for the
>      *     declaration) any other "recent" comments are saved
>      *     in a map using the primary comment as a key,
>      *     using this method, {@code saveDanglingComments}.
>      *  4. When the tree node for the declaration is finally
>      *     available, and the primary comment, if any,
>      *     is "attached", (in {@link #attach}) any related
>      *     dangling comments are also attached to the tree node
>      *     by registering them using the {@link #deferredLintHandler}.
>      *  5. (Later) Warnings may be genereated for the dangling
>      *     comments, subject to the {@code -Xlint} and
>      *     {@code @SuppressWarnings}.
> 
> 
> 3.  Updates to the make files to disable the warnings in modules for which the 
> warning is generated.  This is often because of the confusing use of `/**` to
> create box or other standout comments.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: a920af23
Author:    Jonathan Gibbons <jjg at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/a920af233a11592af113f456f7608cb59dd1617e
Stats:     482 lines in 58 files changed: 385 ins; 3 del; 94 mod

8303689: javac -Xlint could/should report on "dangling" doc comments

Reviewed-by: vromero, ihse, prr

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18527