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commit 355e1f041cde9f1b5e362f834cf4538204f53586
Author: Richard Levitte <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <[email protected]>
(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
