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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2021-04-28 18:08:00 +0200
committerPauli <pauli@openssl.org>2021-05-05 09:29:08 +1000
commit355e1f041cde9f1b5e362f834cf4538204f53586 (patch)
tree76432c75f8bd4de9bdbf1d9d56dfc595e424fbbf /doc
parent79a2bccdb058683f6a43d9f2f5dbc1998f7518e9 (diff)
DOCS: Mention that libcrypto has helper functions for OSSL_PARAMs
Fixes #11165 Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/15073)
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diff --git a/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod b/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod
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--- a/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod
@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ is NULL. The usual full terminating template is:
This can also be specified using L<OSSL_PARAM_END(3)>.
+=head2 Functional support
+
+Libcrypto offers a limited set of helper functions to handle
+B<OSSL_PARAM> items and arrays, please see L<OSSL_PARAM_get_int(3)>.
+Developers are free to extend or replace those as they see fit.
+
=head2 B<OSSL_PARAM> fields
=over 4