diff --git a/BUILD b/BUILD
index 27288d9404..ce3bd03449 100644
--- a/BUILD
+++ b/BUILD
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ COPTS = select({
         "-Wno-sign-compare",
         "-Wno-unused-function",
         # Prevents ISO C++ const string assignment warnings for pyext sources.
-	# no-write-strings is the standard GCC flag as of at least v5.
         "-Wno-writable-strings",
         "-Wno-write-strings",
     ],