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author | Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> | 2016-06-25 22:08:21 -0400 |
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committer | Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> | 2016-06-25 22:08:21 -0400 |
commit | c32bdbf171ce6650ef045ec47b5abe0de7c264db (patch) | |
tree | d1db68f2d94d79db0f212fb7bcd2896be542fa8e /doc | |
parent | 82f31fe4dd0dac30229fa8684229b49d2bcef404 (diff) |
Revert "RT2964: Fix it via doc"
This reverts commit 82f31fe4dd0dac30229fa8684229b49d2bcef404.
Reviewed-by: Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/OBJ_nid2obj.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/OBJ_nid2obj.pod b/doc/crypto/OBJ_nid2obj.pod index 01f5c6eec5..9fa9e66425 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/OBJ_nid2obj.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/OBJ_nid2obj.pod @@ -45,12 +45,6 @@ Deprecated: The ASN1 object utility functions process ASN1_OBJECT structures which are a representation of the ASN1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER (OID) type. -For convenience, OID's are usually represented in source code as numeric -identifiers, or B<NID>'s. OpenSSL has an internal table of OID's that -are generated when the library is built, and their corresponding NID's -are available as define'd constants. For the functions below, application -code should treat all returned values -- OID's, NID's, or names -- as -constants. OBJ_nid2obj(), OBJ_nid2ln() and OBJ_nid2sn() convert the NID B<n> to an ASN1_OBJECT structure, its long name and its short name respectively, @@ -145,7 +139,6 @@ Create a new NID and initialize an object from it: int new_nid; ASN1_OBJECT *obj; - new_nid = OBJ_create("1.2.3.4", "NewOID", "New Object Identifier"); obj = OBJ_nid2obj(new_nid); @@ -163,9 +156,6 @@ Instead B<buf> must point to a valid buffer and B<buf_len> should be set to a positive value. A buffer length of 80 should be more than enough to handle any OID encountered in practice. -Many of the functions here should probably be changed to return B<const> -pointers. But the lack of consistency makes that too awkward to do. - =head1 RETURN VALUES OBJ_nid2obj() returns an B<ASN1_OBJECT> structure or B<NULL> is an |