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diff --git a/epan/wmem/wmem_core.h b/epan/wmem/wmem_core.h
index df263d2516..fc04524de8 100644
--- a/epan/wmem/wmem_core.h
+++ b/epan/wmem/wmem_core.h
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ extern "C" {
* many other functions are available (see the "Modules" list at the top of
* the generated doxygen HTML).
*
+ * Any wmem functions which allocate memory are guaranteed to either succeed or
+ * abort the program. However, they *can* still legally return NULL when the
+ * amount of requested memory is zero.
+ *
* @{
*/