diff --git a/src/frontend/inpcom.c b/src/frontend/inpcom.c
index bad4c6e44..c73b02e29 100644
--- a/src/frontend/inpcom.c
+++ b/src/frontend/inpcom.c
@@ -6076,6 +6076,7 @@ inp_rem_func(struct func_temper **beg_func)
 
 
 /* look for unquoted parameters and quote them */
+/* FIXME, this function seems to be useless and/or buggy and/or naive */
 static void
 inp_quote_params(struct line *c, struct line *end_c, struct dependency *deps, int num_params)
 {