RFR: 8330178: Clean up non-standard use of /** comments in `java.base`

[Mark Powers]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:44:00 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <jjg at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review a set of updates to clean up use of `/**` comments in the vicinity of declarations.
> 
> There are various categories of update:
> 
> * "Box comments" beginning with `/**`
> * Misplaced doc comments before package or import statements
> * Misplaced doc comments after the annotations for a declaration
> * Dangling `/**` comments relating to a group of declarations, separate from the doc comments for each of those declarations
> * Use of `/**` for the legal header at or near the top of the file
> 
> In one case, two doc comments before a declaration were merged, which fixes a bug/omission in the documented serialized form.

Should the copyright be updated?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18846#issuecomment-2065339389