From cf6e77f2110c651f1e6f9493da259b4179d5085c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Jahns <jahns@dkrz.de>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 03:10:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify documentation.

---
 src/pio_rpc.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pio_rpc.c b/src/pio_rpc.c
index 0bf297492..c8dde1944 100644
--- a/src/pio_rpc.c
+++ b/src/pio_rpc.c
@@ -45,8 +45,9 @@ computeClientStreamBufSize(int streamID, const struct collSpec *collector)
   if (collector->partDesc)
     {
       /* the distribution of data is fully prescribed in this case,
-       * i.e. memory needed can be computed exactly for the double
-       * precision case */
+       * i.e. memory needed can be computed exactly if the clients
+       * also specified the element type as float or double, otherwise
+       * plan for the double precision case */
       const Xt_idxlist *partDesc = collector->partDesc;
       const int *conversion = collector->conversion;
       for (size_t varID = 0; varID < nvars; ++varID)
-- 
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