From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 03:24:36 +0000 (+0400)
Subject: Clarify documentation of the gdb.Field.bitpos attribute
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Clarify documentation of the gdb.Field.bitpos attribute

gdb/doc/ChangeLog:

        * gdb.texinfo (Types In Python): Clarify the documentation
        of attribute gdb.Field.bitpos.
---

diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index 0df308ddb0f..a7e1c2f06d3 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-12-30  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
+
+	* gdb.texinfo (Types In Python): Clarify the documentation
+	of attribute gdb.Field.bitpos.
+
 2013-12-28  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
 
 	* gdb.texinfo (Types In Python): Fix the documentation of
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 3fa09999769..a60e6cff93d 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -24338,8 +24338,8 @@ Each field is a @code{gdb.Field} object, with some pre-defined attributes:
 @table @code
 @item bitpos
 This attribute is not available for @code{enum} or @code{static}
-(as in C@t{++} or Java) fields.  The value is the bit position of
-the field.
+(as in C@t{++} or Java) fields.  The value is the position, counting
+in bits, from the start of the containing type.
 
 @item enumval
 This attribute is only available for @code{enum} fields, and its value