diff --git a/cplusplus/include/vips/vips8 b/cplusplus/include/vips/vips8
index d1c70ffa..98f67926 100644
--- a/cplusplus/include/vips/vips8
+++ b/cplusplus/include/vips/vips8
@@ -34,9 +34,8 @@
 
 #include <glib-object.h>
 
-/*
-    Define VIPS_CPLUSPLUS_EXPORTS to build a DLL using MSVC
-*/
+/* Define VIPS_CPLUSPLUS_EXPORTS to build a DLL using MSVC.
+ */
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
 #  ifdef VIPS_CPLUSPLUS_EXPORTS
 #    define VIPS_CPLUSPLUS_API __declspec(dllexport)