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diff --git a/absl/container/flat_hash_map.h b/absl/container/flat_hash_map.h
index fcb70d86..dbd37d3c 100644
--- a/absl/container/flat_hash_map.h
+++ b/absl/container/flat_hash_map.h
@@ -383,6 +383,11 @@ class flat_hash_map : public absl::container_internal::raw_hash_map<
// key value and returns a node handle owning that extracted data. If the
// `flat_hash_map` does not contain an element with a matching key, this
// function returns an empty node handle.
+ //
+ // NOTE: when compiled in an earlier version of C++ than C++17,
+ // `node_type::key()` returns a const reference to the key instead of a
+ // mutable reference. We cannot safely return a mutable reference without
+ // std::launder (which is not available before C++17).
using Base::extract;
// flat_hash_map::merge()