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Diffstat (limited to 'deps/openssl/openssl/doc/crypto/BN_new.pod')
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diff --git a/deps/openssl/openssl/doc/crypto/BN_new.pod b/deps/openssl/openssl/doc/crypto/BN_new.pod index ab7a105e3a..d446603191 100644 --- a/deps/openssl/openssl/doc/crypto/BN_new.pod +++ b/deps/openssl/openssl/doc/crypto/BN_new.pod @@ -30,10 +30,12 @@ to the value 0. BN_free() frees the components of the B<BIGNUM>, and if it was created by BN_new(), also the structure itself. BN_clear_free() additionally overwrites the data before the memory is returned to the system. +If B<a> is NULL, nothing is done. =head1 RETURN VALUES -BN_new() returns a pointer to the B<BIGNUM>. If the allocation fails, +BN_new() returns a pointer to the B<BIGNUM> initialised to the value 0. +If the allocation fails, it returns B<NULL> and sets an error code that can be obtained by L<ERR_get_error(3)|ERR_get_error(3)>. |