diff --git a/reference/misc/functions/eval.xml b/reference/misc/functions/eval.xml
index 2311ddac20..099bb3ba67 100644
--- a/reference/misc/functions/eval.xml
+++ b/reference/misc/functions/eval.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.11 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.12 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/misc.xml, last change in rev 1.58 -->
   <refentry id="function.eval">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
      code, in which case the value passed to <literal>return</literal> is
      returned. In case of a parse error in the evaluated code,
      <function>eval</function> returns &false;.
+     In case of a fatal error in the evaluated code, the whole script exits.
      In PHP 3, <function>eval</function> does not return a value.
     </simpara>
     <para>