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commit 780bd905ed8684a62b0c3be90c904dac405780fb
Author: Tomas Mraz <to...@openssl.org>
Date: Wed Jan 5 11:18:27 2022 +0100
doc: Add hint to use EVP_PKEY_get_bn_param to retrieve big integers
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pa...@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/17423)
(cherry picked from commit f6f4d1cc00a557232955867b6c04f767e8b5a12e)
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Summary of changes:
doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_gettable_params.pod | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_gettable_params.pod
b/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_gettable_params.pod
index 29b8ec822b..3a2a59c36a 100644
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_gettable_params.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_gettable_params.pod
@@ -47,10 +47,12 @@ value that is negative or does not fit into a native C
B<size_t> type using
EVP_PKEY_get_size_t_param() will also fail.
EVP_PKEY_get_int_param() retrieves a key I<pkey> integer value I<*out>
-associated with a name of I<key_name>.
+associated with a name of I<key_name> if it fits into C<int> type. For
+parameters that do not fit into C<int> use EVP_PKEY_get_bn_param().
EVP_PKEY_get_size_t_param() retrieves a key I<pkey> size_t value I<*out>
-associated with a name of I<key_name>.
+associated with a name of I<key_name> if it fits into C<size_t> type. For
+parameters that do not fit into C<size_t> use EVP_PKEY_get_bn_param().
EVP_PKEY_get_bn_param() retrieves a key I<pkey> BIGNUM value I<**bn>
associated with a name of I<key_name>. If I<*bn> is NULL then the BIGNUM
