diff --git a/library/alloc/src/collections/vec_deque/mod.rs b/library/alloc/src/collections/vec_deque/mod.rs
index 86d77182bccee..ee8032ad6f0f7 100644
--- a/library/alloc/src/collections/vec_deque/mod.rs
+++ b/library/alloc/src/collections/vec_deque/mod.rs
@@ -566,10 +566,9 @@ impl<T, A: Allocator> VecDeque<T, A> {
     ///
     /// let deque: VecDeque<u32> = VecDeque::new();
     /// ```
-    // FIXME: This should probably be const
     #[inline]
     #[unstable(feature = "allocator_api", issue = "32838")]
-    pub fn new_in(alloc: A) -> VecDeque<T, A> {
+    pub const fn new_in(alloc: A) -> VecDeque<T, A> {
         VecDeque { head: 0, len: 0, buf: RawVec::new_in(alloc) }
     }
 
@@ -2152,7 +2151,7 @@ impl<T, A: Allocator> VecDeque<T, A> {
 
             self.head = tail;
         } else {
-            // ´free` is smaller than both `head_len` and `tail_len`.
+            // `free` is smaller than both `head_len` and `tail_len`.
             // the general algorithm for this first moves the slices
             // right next to each other and then uses `slice::rotate`
             // to rotate them into place: