rust-lang/rust-clippy

Document `pub` functions in `clippy_utils`

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#15,569 opened on Aug 26, 2025

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Quite a lot of functions in clippy_utils lack documentation. Ideally, the missing_docs lint should be enabled on this crate, except for selected entities such as the static path definitions in the paths module (which might be moved into a submodule).

Note: we are not looking for LLM generated verbose documentation.

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Identify all public functions in the `clippy utils` crate that are missing documentation and add concise, human written doc comments.
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