diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Stride.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Stride.h
index 8d7820df9..2832e8014 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Stride.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Stride.h
@@ -40,10 +40,14 @@ namespace Eigen {
   * \include Map_general_stride.cpp
   * Output: \verbinclude Map_general_stride.out
   *
-  * Both strides can be negative, however, a negative stride of -1 cannot be specified at compiletime
+  * Both strides can be negative. However, a negative stride of -1 cannot be specified at compile time
   * because of the ambiguity with Dynamic which is defined to -1 (historically, negative strides were
   * not allowed).
   *
+  * Note that for compile-time vectors (ColsAtCompileTime==1 or RowsAtCompile==1),
+  * the inner stride is the pointer increment between two consecutive elements,
+  * regardless of storage layout.
+  *
   * \sa class InnerStride, class OuterStride, \ref TopicStorageOrders
   */
 template<int OuterStrideAtCompileTime_, int InnerStrideAtCompileTime_>