diff --git a/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/ir/implementation/raw/internal/TranslatedElement.qll b/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/ir/implementation/raw/internal/TranslatedElement.qll
index 5311b757caf..3a350ea0e1a 100644
--- a/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/ir/implementation/raw/internal/TranslatedElement.qll
+++ b/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/ir/implementation/raw/internal/TranslatedElement.qll
@@ -469,8 +469,10 @@ private module IRDeclarationEntries {
   /**
    * An entity that represents a declaration entry in the database.
    *
-   * This class exists to work around the fact that `DeclStmt`s in
-   * template instantiations do not have `DeclarationEntry`s.
+   * This class exists to work around the fact that `DeclStmt`s in some cases
+   * do not have `DeclarationEntry`s. Currently, this is the case for:
+   * - `DeclStmt`s in template instantiations.
+   * - `DeclStmt`s that are generated by the desugaring of range-based for-loops.
    *
    * So instead, the IR works with `IRDeclarationEntry`s that synthesize missing
    * `DeclarationEntry`s when there is no result for `DeclStmt::getDeclarationEntry`.