diff --git a/ompi/mpi/c/attr_fn.c b/ompi/mpi/c/attr_fn.c
index 21e30ef209..b2b0dbef45 100644
--- a/ompi/mpi/c/attr_fn.c
+++ b/ompi/mpi/c/attr_fn.c
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@
 #include "communicator/communicator.h"
 #include "win/win.h"
 
+/*
+ * Comment to circumvent error-msg of weak-check:
+ *   We do not need #pragma weak in here, as these functions
+ *   do not have a function for the profiling interface.
+ */
+
 /*
  * Note that these are the back-end functions for MPI_DUP_FN (and
  * friends).  They have an OMPI_C_* prefix because of weird reasons