diff --git a/tools/src/h5dump/h5dump.c b/tools/src/h5dump/h5dump.c
index 8fce1cadae..d6a2148597 100644
--- a/tools/src/h5dump/h5dump.c
+++ b/tools/src/h5dump/h5dump.c
@@ -1357,7 +1357,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
         goto done;
     }
 
-    /* enable error reporting if command line option */
+    /* Enable error reporting if --enable-error-stack command line option is specified */
     h5tools_error_report();
 
     /* Initialize indexing options */