diff --git a/libavutil/internal.h b/libavutil/internal.h
index 9150074b19..221c2ed2b4 100644
--- a/libavutil/internal.h
+++ b/libavutil/internal.h
@@ -204,12 +204,21 @@
 
 
 /**
- * Create a non default alias for a function with specified version.
- * This is needed when symbols are moved from a lib to a dependancy of the lib
- * because the gnu linker as of 2010 is buggy and fails to dynamicaly link if a symbol
- * is not found in the lib in which it was during link time with enabled versioning
- * even if a correctly versioned and matching symbol exists in another lib and
- * even if it did find that would it not contain an explicit check to fail
+ * Define a function with only the non-default version specified.
+ *
+ * On systems with ELF shared libraries, all symbols exported from
+ * FFmpeg libraries are tagged with the name and major version of the
+ * library to which they belong.  If a function is moved from one
+ * library to another, a wrapper must be retained in the original
+ * location to preserve binary compatibility.
+ *
+ * Functions defined with this macro will never be used to resolve
+ * symbols by the build-time linker.
+ *
+ * @param type return type of function
+ * @param name name of function
+ * @param args argument list of function
+ * @param ver  version tag to assign function
  */
 #if HAVE_SYMVER_ASM_LABEL
 #   define FF_SYMVER(type, name, args, ver)                     \