diff --git a/src/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/Constructor.java b/src/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/Constructor.java
index 6515eb282d9e72022cd1ed18beb343926977b738..e4b808e41bf290be3c05fd08f1da9cdba4572cfe 100644
--- a/src/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/Constructor.java
+++ b/src/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/Constructor.java
@@ -166,8 +166,7 @@ public final
 
     /**
      * Returns the name of this constructor, as a string.  This is
-     * always the same as the simple name of the constructor's declaring
-     * class.
+     * the binary name of the constructor's declaring class.
      */
     public String getName() {
         return getDeclaringClass().getName();