RFR: 8280713: Related to comment inheritance jdk.javadoc cleanup and refactoring [v3]

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 20:45:35 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <jjg at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Commit: Remove ImplementedMethods::removeOverriddenMethod
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> I'm not convinced by this one. I'd like to see more investigation. I read your description and follow that, but I still think there may be an issue of what the code does, vs. what it was intended to do in a complex inheritance hierarchy.

Looking (together) at the code in detail, and all its historical forms, it seems that the code never worked as intended, that maybe better phrased as, "it worked anyway", perhaps because of the effective definition of `getAllInterfaces`

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7233