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authorGustaf Neumann <neumann@wu-wien.ac.at>2020-07-04 21:58:30 +0200
committerDr. Matthias St. Pierre <matthias.st.pierre@ncp-e.com>2020-07-24 21:06:32 +0200
commit6328d3673fabc336e3064368d855c2d1153ef54c (patch)
tree1af1ce13e4be6582ac1a9039881953c378058b61 /doc/man3/ASN1_TYPE_get.pod
parent7a989af7386e97add7c759fda688c5d2e79e812e (diff)
Fix typos and repeated words
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12370)
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diff --git a/doc/man3/ASN1_TYPE_get.pod b/doc/man3/ASN1_TYPE_get.pod
index fb797220a4..f14850b39f 100644
--- a/doc/man3/ASN1_TYPE_get.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/ASN1_TYPE_get.pod
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ up after the call.
ASN1_TYPE_set1() sets the value of B<a> to B<type> a copy of B<value>.
ASN1_TYPE_cmp() compares ASN.1 types B<a> and B<b> and returns 0 if
-they are identical and non-zero otherwise.
+they are identical and nonzero otherwise.
ASN1_TYPE_unpack_sequence() attempts to parse the SEQUENCE present in
B<t> using the ASN.1 structure B<it>. If successful it returns a pointer
@@ -62,12 +62,12 @@ length octets).
ASN1_TYPE_cmp() may not return zero if two types are equivalent but have
different encodings. For example the single content octet of the boolean TRUE
-value under BER can have any non-zero encoding but ASN1_TYPE_cmp() will
+value under BER can have any nonzero encoding but ASN1_TYPE_cmp() will
only return zero if the values are the same.
If either or both of the parameters passed to ASN1_TYPE_cmp() is NULL the
-return value is non-zero. Technically if both parameters are NULL the two
-types could be absent OPTIONAL fields and so should match, however passing
+return value is nonzero. Technically if both parameters are NULL the two
+types could be absent OPTIONAL fields and so should match, however, passing
NULL values could also indicate a programming error (for example an
unparsable type which returns NULL) for types which do B<not> match. So
applications should handle the case of two absent values separately.
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ ASN1_TYPE_set() does not return a value.
ASN1_TYPE_set1() returns 1 for success and 0 for failure.
-ASN1_TYPE_cmp() returns 0 if the types are identical and non-zero otherwise.
+ASN1_TYPE_cmp() returns 0 if the types are identical and nonzero otherwise.
ASN1_TYPE_unpack_sequence() returns a pointer to an ASN.1 structure or
NULL on failure.