[openssl-users] OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER representation

[Edward Diener]

The latest documentation for OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER at 
https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/crypto/OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER.html 
says that it is 9 hex digits, with the last nibble being a status 
identifier, while every use I have seen of it in header files treats it 
as 8 hex digits. Can anybody straighten me out on this ?

Also the latest documentation give it as

MNNFFPPS: major minor fix patch status

where the examples in that documentation clearly show it as

MMNNFFPPS: major minor fix patch status

Can anybody straighten me out on this ?

I would like to use the OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER at compile time to choose 
between functionality for version 1.1.0 and version 1.0.x but the 
confusion in my mind of how OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER actually is specified 
is making that impossible.