Dangling class-level javadoc comments in JDK

[Jonathan Gibbons]

IIRC, the one in javadoc CommentUtils has recently been fixed.

It might be worth a javac -Xlint option to detect/report such dangling 
comments.

-- Jon

On 8/23/21 11:50 PM, Andrey Turbanov wrote:
> Hello.
> I found a few internal classes in the JDK codebase which don't have
> proper javadoc, but have dangling javadoc-like comments.
> Dangling Javadoc comments are ignored by the javadoc tool and IDE.
> Perhaps it was intentional to not add proper javadoc to them?
> I believe it's better to convert them to proper javadoc to make
> developing JDK a bit more friendly within IDE.
> What do you think?
>
> List of classes:
>
> com.sun.beans.editors.BooleanEditor
> com.sun.beans.editors.ByteEditor
> com.sun.beans.editors.DoubleEditor
> com.sun.beans.editors.FloatEditor
> com.sun.beans.editors.IntegerEditor
> com.sun.beans.editors.LongEditor
> com.sun.beans.editors.NumberEditor
> com.sun.beans.editors.ShortEditor
> com.sun.jndi.toolkit.dir.ContainmentFilter
> com.sun.jndi.toolkit.dir.LazySearchEnumerationImpl
> com.sun.security.auth.module.Crypt
> java.math.MutableBigInteger
> java.net.DefaultInterface
> javax.swing.GraphicsWrapper
> jdk.internal.access.JavaAWTFontAccess
> jdk.javadoc.internal.doclets.toolkit.CommentUtils
> sun.awt.X11.XAtom
> sun.awt.X11.XAwtState
> sun.java2d.xr.XRBackend
> sun.java2d.xr.XRDrawLine
> sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.PageCache
> sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime.JavaThreadFactory
> sun.jvm.hotspot.utilities.Interval
> sun.jvm.hotspot.utilities.MessageQueueBackend
> sun.jvm.hotspot.utilities.RBTree
> sun.launcher.LauncherHelper
> sun.net.www.content.text.plain
> sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection
> sun.nio.ch.Interruptible
> sun.security.pkcs.ParsingException
> sun.security.provider.SeedGenerator
> sun.security.util.ByteArrayTagOrder
> sun.security.util.IOUtils
>
>
> Andrey Turbanov