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author | Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> | 2016-10-26 13:56:48 -0400 |
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committer | Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> | 2016-10-26 13:59:52 -0400 |
commit | 99d63d4662e16afbeff49f29b48f1c87d5558ed0 (patch) | |
tree | 6512ff02cd93985526080f05ab2b5408235b19a9 /doc/man3/BN_copy.pod | |
parent | 4f3015bb30b7d95bb97408776b70e6a35fb91e8a (diff) |
Move manpages to man[1357] structure.
Move manpages to manX directories
Add Windows/VMS install fix from Richard Levitte
Update README
Fix typo's
Remove some duplicates
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
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diff --git a/doc/man3/BN_copy.pod b/doc/man3/BN_copy.pod new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b044b98a0b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/man3/BN_copy.pod @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +=pod + +=head1 NAME + +BN_copy, BN_dup, BN_with_flags - copy BIGNUMs + +=head1 SYNOPSIS + + #include <openssl/bn.h> + + BIGNUM *BN_copy(BIGNUM *to, const BIGNUM *from); + + BIGNUM *BN_dup(const BIGNUM *from); + + void BN_with_flags(BIGNUM *dest, const BIGNUM *b, int flags); + +=head1 DESCRIPTION + +BN_copy() copies B<from> to B<to>. BN_dup() creates a new B<BIGNUM> +containing the value B<from>. + +BN_with_flags creates a B<temporary> shallow copy of B<b> in B<dest>. It places +significant restrictions on the copied data. Applications that do no adhere to +these restrictions may encounter unexpected side effects or crashes. For that +reason use of this function is discouraged. Any flags provided in B<flags> will +be set in B<dest> in addition to any flags already set in B<b>. For example this +might commonly be used to create a temporary copy of a BIGNUM with the +B<BN_FLG_CONSTTIME> flag set for constant time operations. The temporary copy in +B<dest> will share some internal state with B<b>. For this reason the following +restrictions apply to the use of B<dest>: + +=over 4 + +=item * + +B<dest> should be a newly allocated BIGNUM obtained via a call to BN_new(). It +should not have been used for other purposes or initialised in any way. + +=item * + +B<dest> must only be used in "read-only" operations, i.e. typically those +functions where the relevant parameter is declared "const". + +=item * + +B<dest> must be used and freed before any further subsequent use of B<b> + +=back + +=head1 RETURN VALUES + +BN_copy() returns B<to> on success, NULL on error. BN_dup() returns +the new B<BIGNUM>, and NULL on error. The error codes can be obtained +by L<ERR_get_error(3)>. + +=head1 SEE ALSO + +L<bn(3)>, L<ERR_get_error(3)> + +=head1 COPYRIGHT + +Copyright 2000-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. + +Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use +this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy +in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at +L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>. + +=cut |