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| author | Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com> | 2018-09-24 08:43:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2018-09-24 12:09:29 +0200 |
| commit | 7a6d121e9d7bbd3a0db0a7b8020cfa224fe3aaa5 (patch) | |
| tree | 487ea9e47015b6fc450b5c89393ddd9b6b62fc51 | |
| parent | 459b128a2d0382e299b8318979c58cc6ff46fc4a (diff) | |
Document OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT macro
This commit documents the OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT which is currently
missing in the man page.
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7301)
(cherry picked from commit 7c69495712e3dc9aa8db38271f0c3faeb2037165)
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER.pod b/doc/crypto/OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER.pod index f7ca7cb790..02eabd7846 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER.pod @@ -2,12 +2,14 @@ =head1 NAME -OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER, SSLeay, SSLeay_version - get OpenSSL version number +OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER, OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT, SSLeay, SSLeay_version +- get OpenSSL version number =head1 SYNOPSIS #include <openssl/opensslv.h> #define OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER 0xnnnnnnnnnL + #define OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT "OpenSSL x.y.z xx XXX xxxx" #include <openssl/crypto.h> long SSLeay(void); @@ -43,9 +45,12 @@ Version 0.9.5a had an interim interpretation that is like the current one, except the patch level got the highest bit set, to keep continuity. The number was therefore 0x0090581f. - For backward compatibility, SSLEAY_VERSION_NUMBER is also defined. +OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT is the text variant of the version number and the +release date. For example, +"OpenSSL 1.0.1a 15 Oct 2015". + SSLeay() returns this number. The return value can be compared to the macro to make sure that the correct version of the library has been loaded, especially when using DLLs on Windows systems. |