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| author | Bodo Möller <bodo@openssl.org> | 2000-07-11 20:35:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Bodo Möller <bodo@openssl.org> | 2000-07-11 20:35:45 +0000 |
| commit | 16ece03a2e46850dd5089ff1c820d125f82a53b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ed4a3cbfc8ad9f056fdb7ec6d23046503a11b6c /doc/crypto/BN_CTX_start.pod | |
| parent | 094fe66d9fdb70bb424de822bbed1eddb8f0194a (diff) | |
Add an early reference to BN_CTX_new so that the usage of BN_CTX_start
is easier to grasp.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/crypto/BN_CTX_start.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/BN_CTX_start.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/BN_CTX_start.pod b/doc/crypto/BN_CTX_start.pod index c30552b122..dfcefe1a88 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/BN_CTX_start.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/BN_CTX_start.pod @@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ BN_CTX_start, BN_CTX_get, BN_CTX_end - use temporary BIGNUM variables =head1 DESCRIPTION These functions are used to obtain temporary B<BIGNUM> variables from -a B<BN_CTX> in order to save the overhead of repeatedly creating and +a B<BN_CTX> (which can been created by using L<BN_CTX_new(3)|BN_CTX_new(3)>) +in order to save the overhead of repeatedly creating and freeing B<BIGNUM>s in functions that are called from inside a loop. A function must call BN_CTX_start() first. Then, BN_CTX_get() may be |