# HG changeset patch
# User Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
# Date 984575751 0
# Node ID d219e9d346c434ab293f17f58195e26b8ba2d0f5
# Parent  434462b4d49effe39802f2aab2309447cbb18334
Improve comments.

diff -r 434462b4d49e -r d219e9d346c4 src/dispextern.h
--- a/src/dispextern.h	Wed Mar 14 12:54:20 2001 +0000
+++ b/src/dispextern.h	Wed Mar 14 13:15:51 2001 +0000
@@ -242,7 +242,9 @@
   int charpos;
 
   /* Lisp object source of this glyph.  Currently either a buffer or
-     a string, or 0.  */
+     a string, if the glyph was produced from characters which came from 
+     a buffer or a string; or 0 if the glyph was inserted by redisplay
+     for its own purposes such as padding.  */
   Lisp_Object object;
 
   /* Width in pixels.  */
@@ -281,8 +283,9 @@
      padding. */
   unsigned padding_p : 1;
 
-  /* 1 means the actual glyph is not available in the current
-     system.  */
+  /* 1 means the actual glyph is not available, draw a box instead.
+     This can happen when a font couldn't be loaded, or a character
+     doesn't have a glyph in a font.  */
   unsigned glyph_not_available_p : 1;
 
   /* Face of the glyph.  */