diff --git a/src/liballoc/rc.rs b/src/liballoc/rc.rs
index 835df66d55c4..fccdfa0dca92 100644
--- a/src/liballoc/rc.rs
+++ b/src/liballoc/rc.rs
@@ -1641,6 +1641,7 @@ pub struct Weak<T: ?Sized> {
     // `Weak::new` sets this to `usize::MAX` so that it doesn’t need
     // to allocate space on the heap.  That's not a value a real pointer
     // will ever have because RcBox has alignment at least 2.
+    // This is only possible when `T: Sized`; unsized `T` never dangle.
     ptr: NonNull<RcBox<T>>,
 }
 
diff --git a/src/liballoc/sync.rs b/src/liballoc/sync.rs
index 875bec5b2037..ac3ce2255c89 100644
--- a/src/liballoc/sync.rs
+++ b/src/liballoc/sync.rs
@@ -267,6 +267,7 @@ pub struct Weak<T: ?Sized> {
     // `Weak::new` sets this to `usize::MAX` so that it doesn’t need
     // to allocate space on the heap.  That's not a value a real pointer
     // will ever have because RcBox has alignment at least 2.
+    // This is only possible when `T: Sized`; unsized `T` never dangle.
     ptr: NonNull<ArcInner<T>>,
 }