EVP_MD_CTX_free documentation
Matt Caswell
matt at openssl.org
Fri Jul 30 19:03:03 UTC 2021
All our _free functions will accept NULL. We rely on this extensively
*everywhere*. We perhaps could be better at documenting it, but you can
rely on it.
Matt
On 30/07/2021 17:55, Ken Goldman wrote:
> It would be nice if the documentation would guarantee that
> this function is a no-op when the parameter is NULL - like
> the standard free() call.
>
> This would save coding (if not NULL) all the time.
>
> Same comment for all the _free functions.
>
> I know I can look at the code, but that doesn't
> provide an API guarantee.
>
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