diff --git a/src/common/torgzip.c b/src/common/torgzip.c
index ec1b5489cf..1f78089f65 100644
--- a/src/common/torgzip.c
+++ b/src/common/torgzip.c
@@ -204,9 +204,8 @@ tor_gzip_uncompress(char **out, size_t *out_len,
       case Z_STREAM_END:
         if (stream->avail_in == 0)
           goto done;
-#if 0
         /* There may be more compressed data here. */
-        /* But if so, this is not the right way to find it. If
+        /* XXX But if so, this is not the right way to find it. If
          * we call inflateInit2 below, stream->state will get
          * re-zcalloc'ed and we'll leak the old one. -RD */
         if (inflateInit2(stream, method_bits(method)) != Z_OK) {
@@ -214,7 +213,6 @@ tor_gzip_uncompress(char **out, size_t *out_len,
                    stream->msg?stream->msg:"<no message>");
           goto err;
         }
-#endif
         break;
       case Z_OK:
         if (!complete_only && stream->avail_in == 0)