diff --git a/libjava/ChangeLog b/libjava/ChangeLog
index f9b458add70..58530b0e816 100644
--- a/libjava/ChangeLog
+++ b/libjava/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2000-04-03  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>
 
+	* include/jvm.h (_Jv_GetArrayElementFromElementType): More
+	commentary from Alex.
+
 	* Makefile.in: Rebuilt.
 	* Makefile.am ($(javao_files)): Depend on libgcj.zip.
 	From H.J. Lu.
diff --git a/libjava/include/jvm.h b/libjava/include/jvm.h
index 19b03fbc9c6..625a11e2148 100644
--- a/libjava/include/jvm.h
+++ b/libjava/include/jvm.h
@@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ _Jv_HashCode (jobject obj)
 // Return a raw pointer to the elements of an array given the array
 // and its element type.  You might think we could just pick a single
 // array type and use elements() on it, but we can't because we must
-// account for alignment of the element type.
+// account for alignment of the element type.  When ARRAY is null, we
+// obtain the number of bytes taken by the base part of the array.
 inline char *
 _Jv_GetArrayElementFromElementType (jobject array,
 				    jclass element_type)