[openssl-commits] [openssl] master update
Rich Salz
rsalz at openssl.org
Fri Sep 29 16:51:40 UTC 2017
The branch master has been updated
via 681acb311bb7c68c9310d2e96bf2cf0e35443a22 (commit)
from af3e5e1bda6fa59b5637ca31c0c80a17b29a3787 (commit)
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commit 681acb311bb7c68c9310d2e96bf2cf0e35443a22
Author: Hubert Kario <hkario at redhat.com>
Date: Fri Sep 29 13:10:34 2017 +0200
doc: note that the BN_new() initialises the BIGNUM
BN_new() and BN_secure_new() not only allocate memory, but also
initialise it to deterministic value - 0.
Document that behaviour to make it explicit
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte at openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz at openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4438)
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Summary of changes:
doc/man3/BN_new.pod | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/man3/BN_new.pod b/doc/man3/BN_new.pod
index 36bd00d..08aae5e 100644
--- a/doc/man3/BN_new.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/BN_new.pod
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ If B<a> is NULL, nothing is done.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
BN_new() and BN_secure_new()
-return a pointer to the B<BIGNUM>. If the allocation fails,
+return a pointer to the B<BIGNUM> initialised to the value 0.
+If the allocation fails,
they return B<NULL> and set an error code that can be obtained
by L<ERR_get_error(3)>.
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