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diff --git a/osl.c b/osl.c
index 6666196..e31811b 100644
--- a/osl.c
+++ b/osl.c
@@ -13,7 +13,14 @@
 #include "util.h"
 #include "osl_core.h"
 
-/* Taken from Drepper: How to write shared libraries, Appendix B. */
+/*
+ * Taken from Drepper: How to write shared libraries, Appendix B.
+ *
+ * The main reason for this rather fancy implementation of strerror() is to
+ * avoid having an array of pointers. This is desirable because initialized
+ * pointer variables increase the startup time of the library due to the
+ * processing of relocations.
+ */
 #include <stddef.h>
 #define MSGSTRFIELD(line) MSGSTRFIELD1(line)
 #define MSGSTRFIELD1(line) str##line