Commit 30ea570f authored by Dr. Stephen Henson's avatar Dr. Stephen Henson
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Clarify docs. 

Remove reference to ERR_TXT_MALLOCED in the error library as that is
only used internally. Indicate that returned error data must not be
freed.
(cherry picked from commit f2d678e6e89b6508147086610e985d4e8416e867)
parent cb218267

doc/crypto/ERR_get_error.pod

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@@ -52,8 +52,11 @@ ERR_get_error_line_data(), ERR_peek_error_line_data() and 
ERR_get_last_error_line_data() store additional data and flags

associated with the error code in *B<data>

and *B<flags>, unless these are B<NULL>. *B<data> contains a string

if *B<flags>&B<ERR_TXT_STRING>. If it has been allocated by OPENSSL_malloc(),

*B<flags>&B<ERR_TXT_MALLOCED> is true.

if *B<flags>&B<ERR_TXT_STRING> is true. 



An application B<MUST NOT> free the *B<data> pointer (or any other pointers

returned by these functions) with OPENSSL_free() as freeing is handled

automatically by the error library.



=head1 RETURN VALUES