diff --git a/lib/Bytecode/Writer/Writer.cpp b/lib/Bytecode/Writer/Writer.cpp
index b119c3d7f7d..f3686372303 100644
--- a/lib/Bytecode/Writer/Writer.cpp
+++ b/lib/Bytecode/Writer/Writer.cpp
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // This library implements the functionality defined in llvm/Bytecode/Writer.h
 //
 // Note that this file uses an unusual technique of outputting all the bytecode
-// to a deque of unsigned chare, then copies the deque to an ostream.  The
+// to a deque of unsigned char, then copies the deque to an ostream.  The
 // reason for this is that we must do "seeking" in the stream to do back-
 // patching, and some very important ostreams that we want to support (like
 // pipes) do not support seeking.  :( :( :(