Consider the following source:

/**  * Here is some documentation.  */ export const f = () => {}; /**  * Here is some documentation  */ export function g() {}

Commit d1be956 changed how this is handled. If I checkout the commit before it e30ed7a, run npm ci && npm build and then run typedoc on this file, the rendering of f and g are indistinguishable:

On d1be956 the output changed so that the comment is above f. The output for g is unchanged: