From: Daniel Arndt <daniel.arndt@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 09:44:02 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Rephrase comment
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Rephrase comment
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diff --git a/cmake/checks/check_02_compiler_features.cmake b/cmake/checks/check_02_compiler_features.cmake
index d826c38119..c544740c28 100644
--- a/cmake/checks/check_02_compiler_features.cmake
+++ b/cmake/checks/check_02_compiler_features.cmake
@@ -290,10 +290,11 @@ ENDIF()
 # - Wolfgang Bangerth, 2012
 #
 
-# some compilers compile the attributes but they do not work
-# so we treat errors as warnings:
+# Some compilers swallow the deprecation attribute, but emit a warning saying
+# that it is actually not supported such as:
 # "warning: use of the 'deprecated' attribute is a C++14 extension" (clang in c++11 mode)
 # "warning #1292: unknown attribute "deprecated"" (icc)
+# Hence, we treat warnings as errors:
 PUSH_CMAKE_REQUIRED("${DEAL_II_CXX_FLAGS}")
 PUSH_CMAKE_REQUIRED("-Werror")
 PUSH_CMAKE_REQUIRED("-Wno-unused-command-line-argument")