Commit 681acb31 authored Sep 29, 2017 by Hubert Kario

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

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4438)

parent af3e5e1b

doc/man3/BN_new.pod

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		@@ -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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