diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 339100b..46184e6 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ PP = $(addprefix $(PREPROCESSED)/, $(_PP))
 # the awks below will remove all includes, pragmas and blank lines from the top of the file
 # until they hit something else
 #
+# that something else could be an awk marker comment which saves part of the includes
+# from being eaten by awk - ones useful when debugging the output of these godforsaken macros
+#
 # doing that makes clang-format considerably faster (c++ std moment)
 # but also removes my own headers which makes some of the macros not evaluate
 #