diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 95d16f30de..fbe77593cc 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-01-17  Doug Evans  <dje@google.com>
+
+	* symtab.h (struct symbol_search): Add comment.
+
 2013-01-17  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
 
 	* symtab.c (compare_filenames_for_search): New comment for
diff --git a/gdb/symtab.h b/gdb/symtab.h
index 78af1a2a19..c334a3a28d 100644
--- a/gdb/symtab.h
+++ b/gdb/symtab.h
@@ -1216,6 +1216,8 @@ extern struct symbol *fixup_symbol_section (struct symbol *,
 					    struct objfile *);
 
 /* Symbol searching */
+/* Note: struct symbol_search, search_symbols, et.al. are declared here,
+   instead of making them local to symtab.c, for gdbtk's sake.  */
 
 /* When using search_symbols, a list of the following structs is returned.
    Callers must free the search list using free_search_symbols!  */