[openssl] master update

Dr. Paul Dale pauli at openssl.org
Tue May 4 23:29:31 UTC 2021


The branch master has been updated
       via  355e1f041cde9f1b5e362f834cf4538204f53586 (commit)
      from  79a2bccdb058683f6a43d9f2f5dbc1998f7518e9 (commit)


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commit 355e1f041cde9f1b5e362f834cf4538204f53586
Author: Richard Levitte <levitte at openssl.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 28 18:08:00 2021 +0200

    DOCS: Mention that libcrypto has helper functions for OSSL_PARAMs
    
    Fixes #11165
    
    Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas at openssl.org>
    Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli at openssl.org>
    (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/15073)

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Summary of changes:
 doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod b/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod
index 593bb21ef1..98d75c9fa2 100644
--- a/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod
@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ is NULL.  The usual full terminating template is:
 
 This can also be specified using L<OSSL_PARAM_END(3)>.
 
+=head2 Functional support
+
+Libcrypto offers a limited set of helper functions to handle
+B<OSSL_PARAM> items and arrays, please see L<OSSL_PARAM_get_int(3)>.
+Developers are free to extend or replace those as they see fit.
+
 =head2 B<OSSL_PARAM> fields
 
 =over 4


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