[openssl-users] OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER representation

[Tomas Mraz]

On Wed, 2018-05-02 at 08:19 -0400, Edward Diener wrote:
> The latest documentation for OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER at 
> https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/crypto/OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER.h
> tml 
> 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 ?

That's because 0x1 and 0x01 are the same numbers.

For example version 1.1.0a: 0x01010001f == 0x1010001f

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