diff --git a/src/runtime/HalideBuffer.h b/src/runtime/HalideBuffer.h
index 3f4f93ee34f1..7dca3022cd3e 100644
--- a/src/runtime/HalideBuffer.h
+++ b/src/runtime/HalideBuffer.h
@@ -1328,9 +1328,12 @@ class Buffer {
 
     /** Make a new image which is a deep copy of this image. Use crop
      * or slice followed by copy to make a copy of only a portion of
-     * the image. The new image uses the same memory layout as the
-     * original, with holes compacted away. Note that the returned
-     * Buffer is always of a non-const type T (ie:
+     * the image. The new image has the same nesting order of dimensions
+     * (e.g. channels innermost), but resets the strides to the default
+     * (each stride is the product of the extents of the inner dimensions).
+     * Note that this means any strides of zero get broadcast into a non-zero stride.
+     *
+     * Note that the returned Buffer is always of a non-const type T (ie:
      *
      *     Buffer<const T>.copy() -> Buffer<T> rather than Buffer<const T>
      *