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diff --git a/lib/CodeGen/CGBlocks.cpp b/lib/CodeGen/CGBlocks.cpp
index 7915c37175..3e126f8505 100644
--- a/lib/CodeGen/CGBlocks.cpp
+++ b/lib/CodeGen/CGBlocks.cpp
@@ -56,7 +56,18 @@ static llvm::Constant *buildDisposeHelper(CodeGenModule &CGM,
return CodeGenFunction(CGM).GenerateDestroyHelperFunction(blockInfo);
}
-/// Build the block descriptor constant for a block.
+/// buildBlockDescriptor - Build the block descriptor meta-data for a block.
+/// buildBlockDescriptor is accessed from 5th field of the Block_literal
+/// meta-data and contains stationary information about the block literal.
+/// Its definition will have 4 (or optinally 6) words.
+/// struct Block_descriptor {
+/// unsigned long reserved;
+/// unsigned long size; // size of Block_literal metadata in bytes.
+/// void *copy_func_helper_decl; // optional copy helper.
+/// void *destroy_func_decl; // optioanl destructor helper.
+/// void *block_method_encoding_address;//@encode for block literal signature.
+/// void *block_layout_info; // encoding of captured block variables.
+/// };
static llvm::Constant *buildBlockDescriptor(CodeGenModule &CGM,
const CGBlockInfo &blockInfo) {
ASTContext &C = CGM.getContext();