Clarify local static scope

[ctf.git] / common-trace-format-specification.txt

diff --git a/common-trace-format-specification.txt b/common-trace-format-specification.txt
index d0636cfba4dc7987e6cccd6a7847d798d309cc79..1400952f94d2cf2872e1ec83a529df35e3a4bdfd 100644 (file)
--- a/common-trace-format-specification.txt
+++ b/common-trace-format-specification.txt
@@ -1026,8 +1026,9 @@ event context to define a variant referring to the "id" field of the
 event header as selector.
 
 The target dynamic scope must be specified explicitly when referring to
 event header as selector.
 
 The target dynamic scope must be specified explicitly when referring to

-a field outside of the local static scope. The dynamic scope prefixes
-are thus:
+a field outside of the local static scope (a local static scope contains
+all fields present within the same scope, at the same nesting level).
+The dynamic scope prefixes are thus:

 
  - Trace Packet Header: <trace.packet.header. >,
  - Stream Packet Context: <stream.packet.context. >,
 
  - Trace Packet Header: <trace.packet.header. >,
  - Stream Packet Context: <stream.packet.context. >,