2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/lisp.h b/src/lisp.h
index 9710dbef8d2..56f24d82810 100644
--- a/src/lisp.h
+++ b/src/lisp.h
@@ -1575,10 +1575,15 @@ struct Lisp_String
   {
     struct
     {
-      ptrdiff_t size;           /* MSB is used as the markbit.  */
-      ptrdiff_t size_byte;      /* Set to -1 for unibyte strings,
-                                   -2 for data in rodata,
-                                   -3 for immovable unibyte strings.  */
+      /* Number of characters in string; MSB is used as the mark bit.  */
+      ptrdiff_t size;
+      /* If nonnegative, number of bytes in the string (which is multibyte).
+         If negative, the string is unibyte:
+         -1 for data normally allocated
+         -2 for data in rodata (C string constants)
+         -3 for data that must be immovable (used for bytecode)  */
+      ptrdiff_t size_byte;
+
       INTERVAL intervals;       /* Text properties in this string.  */
       unsigned char *data;
     } s;
diff --git a/src/pdumper.c b/src/pdumper.c
index 903298f17d2..5e6ccd9bd88 100644
--- a/src/pdumper.c
+++ b/src/pdumper.c
@@ -2067,7 +2067,7 @@ dump_interval_tree (struct dump_context *ctx,
 static dump_off
 dump_string (struct dump_context *ctx, const struct Lisp_String *string)
 {
-#if CHECK_STRUCTS && !defined (HASH_Lisp_String_C2CAF90352)
+#if CHECK_STRUCTS && !defined (HASH_Lisp_String_03B2DF1C8E)
 # error "Lisp_String changed. See CHECK_STRUCTS comment in config.h."
 #endif
   /* If we have text properties, write them _after_ the string so that