[svn r2291] comment

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branch : trunk

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/update-error-constants.py b/update-error-constants.py
index a38bd439..60117646 100644
--- a/update-error-constants.py
+++ b/update-error-constants.py
@@ -92,7 +92,9 @@ append_pxd('cdef extern from "libxml/xmlerror.h":')
 append_pxi('''\
 # Constants are stored in tuples of strings, for which Pyrex generates very
 # efficient setup code.  To parse them, iterate over the tuples and parse each
-# line in each string independently.
+# line in each string independently.  Tuples of strings (instead of a plain
+# string) are required as some C-compilers of a certain well-known OS vendor
+# cannot handle strings that are a few thousand bytes in length.
 ''')
 
 ctypedef_indent = ' '*4