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commit 6787c60df982fe7631c97ca91eff83b5efac017f
Author: Hubert Kario <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Sep 29 15:36:01 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
backport from #4438
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <[email protected]>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4442)
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Summary of changes:
doc/crypto/BN_new.pod | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/crypto/BN_new.pod b/doc/crypto/BN_new.pod
index 36bd00d..08aae5e 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/BN_new.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/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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