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diff --git a/absl/container/node_hash_map.h b/absl/container/node_hash_map.h
index 174b971e..9852ff7f 100644
--- a/absl/container/node_hash_map.h
+++ b/absl/container/node_hash_map.h
@@ -374,6 +374,11 @@ class node_hash_map
// key value and returns a node handle owning that extracted data. If the
// `node_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;
// node_hash_map::merge()