diff --git a/src/tool_main.c b/src/tool_main.c
index b40c8e9a80..23ba6cb200 100644
--- a/src/tool_main.c
+++ b/src/tool_main.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static void memory_tracking_init(void)
     curl_free(env);
     curl_dbg_memdebug(fname);
     /* this weird stuff here is to make curl_free() get called before
-       curl_gdb_memdebug() as otherwise memory tracking will log a free()
+       curl_dbg_memdebug() as otherwise memory tracking will log a free()
        without an alloc! */
   }
   /* if CURL_MEMLIMIT is set, this enables fail-on-alloc-number-N feature */