diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/codegen_attrs.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/codegen_attrs.rs
index 94df5e8b361d7..8d1973058b0ae 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/codegen_attrs.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/codegen_attrs.rs
@@ -430,7 +430,9 @@ fn codegen_fn_attrs(tcx: TyCtxt<'_>, did: LocalDefId) -> CodegenFnAttrs {
         }
     }
 
-    // Apply the minimum function alignment here, so that individual backends don't have to.
+    // Apply the minimum function alignment here. This ensures that a function's alignment is
+    // determined by the `-C` flags of the crate it is defined in, not the `-C` flags of the crate
+    // it happens to be codegen'd (or const-eval'd) in.
     codegen_fn_attrs.alignment =
         Ord::max(codegen_fn_attrs.alignment, tcx.sess.opts.unstable_opts.min_function_alignment);