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Diffstat (limited to 'secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_new.3')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_new.3 b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_new.3 index 17636a491833a..1eda87c3922b4 100644 --- a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_new.3 +++ b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_new.3 @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "BN_new 3" -.TH BN_new 3 "2017-05-25" "1.0.2l" "OpenSSL" +.TH BN_new 3 "2017-11-02" "1.0.2m" "OpenSSL" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -163,9 +163,11 @@ to the value 0. \&\fIBN_free()\fR frees the components of the \fB\s-1BIGNUM\s0\fR, and if it was created by \fIBN_new()\fR, also the structure itself. \fIBN_clear_free()\fR additionally overwrites the data before the memory is returned to the system. +If \fBa\fR is \s-1NULL,\s0 nothing is done. .SH "RETURN VALUES" .IX Header "RETURN VALUES" -\&\fIBN_new()\fR returns a pointer to the \fB\s-1BIGNUM\s0\fR. If the allocation fails, +\&\fIBN_new()\fR returns a pointer to the \fB\s-1BIGNUM\s0\fR initialised to the value 0. +If the allocation fails, it returns \fB\s-1NULL\s0\fR and sets an error code that can be obtained by \fIERR_get_error\fR\|(3). .PP |