diff --git a/src/stralloc.c b/src/stralloc.c
index 71d0aa4048592653350372cb3587441c98343b35..7cd709ca9ee23464b9fd271cbe6472231832c7ef 100644
--- a/src/stralloc.c
+++ b/src/stralloc.c
@@ -1518,10 +1518,6 @@ ptrdiff_t generic_quick_binary_strcmp(const char *a,
   if(!asize && !bsize)
   {
     int tmp;
-    /* FIXME: Does MEMCMP() guarantee that the characters
-     *        are compared as unsigned?
-     *	/grubba 2006-03-11
-     */
     if(alen > blen)
     {
       tmp=MEMCMP(a, b, blen);