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-rw-r--r--src/tools/miri/src/shims/foreign_items.rs6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/tools/miri/src/shims/foreign_items.rs b/src/tools/miri/src/shims/foreign_items.rs
index d52582ce901..f4e91c30d9f 100644
--- a/src/tools/miri/src/shims/foreign_items.rs
+++ b/src/tools/miri/src/shims/foreign_items.rs
@@ -417,8 +417,10 @@ pub trait EvalContextExt<'mir, 'tcx: 'mir>: crate::MiriInterpCxExt<'mir, 'tcx> {
         //     // First thing: load all the arguments. Details depend on the shim.
         //     let arg1 = this.read_scalar(arg1)?.to_u32()?;
         //     let arg2 = this.read_pointer(arg2)?; // when you need to work with the pointer directly
-        //     let arg3 = this.deref_operand(arg3)?; // when you want to load/store through the pointer
-        //     let arg4 = this.deref_operand_as(arg4, this.libc_ty_layout("some_libc_struct")?)
+        //     let arg3 = this.deref_operand_as(arg3, this.libc_ty_layout("some_libc_struct"))?; // when you want to load/store
+        //         // through the pointer and supply the type information yourself
+        //     let arg4 = this.deref_operand(arg4)?; // when you want to load/store through the pointer and trust
+        //         // the user-given type (which you shouldn't usually do)
         //
         //     // ...
         //