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| author | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2020-12-23 19:33:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Dr. David von Oheimb <dev@ddvo.net> | 2021-02-04 07:28:11 +0100 |
| commit | d53b437f9992f974c1623e9b9b9bdf053aefbcc3 (patch) | |
| tree | 12b15a5d0a6e885be5e9118c5b4542c6234039f0 /doc/man3/DEFINE_STACK_OF.pod | |
| parent | b91a13f429570512bfee290e8ec50096b0667e45 (diff) | |
Allow NULL arg to OPENSSL_sk_{dup,deep_copy} returning empty stack
This simplifies many usages
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/14040)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man3/DEFINE_STACK_OF.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/DEFINE_STACK_OF.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/DEFINE_STACK_OF.pod b/doc/man3/DEFINE_STACK_OF.pod index 9088dc040b..b5908fead5 100644 --- a/doc/man3/DEFINE_STACK_OF.pod +++ b/doc/man3/DEFINE_STACK_OF.pod @@ -182,12 +182,14 @@ B<sk_I<TYPE>_sort>() sorts I<sk> using the supplied comparison function. B<sk_I<TYPE>_is_sorted>() returns B<1> if I<sk> is sorted and B<0> otherwise. -B<sk_I<TYPE>_dup>() returns a copy of I<sk>. Note the pointers in the copy -are identical to the original. +B<sk_I<TYPE>_dup>() returns a shallow copy of I<sk> +or an empty stack if the passed stack is NULL. +Note the pointers in the copy are identical to the original. B<sk_I<TYPE>_deep_copy>() returns a new stack where each element has been -copied. Copying is performed by the supplied copyfunc() and freeing by -freefunc(). The function freefunc() is only called if an error occurs. +copied or an empty stack if the passed stack is NULL. +Copying is performed by the supplied copyfunc() and freeing by freefunc(). +The function freefunc() is only called if an error occurs. =head1 NOTES @@ -258,7 +260,7 @@ B<sk_I<TYPE>_is_sorted>() returns B<1> if the stack is sorted and B<0> if it is not. B<sk_I<TYPE>_dup>() and B<sk_I<TYPE>_deep_copy>() return a pointer to the copy -of the stack. +of the stack or NULL on error. =head1 HISTORY |