From: Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 13:11:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: clarify comment
X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_1_1_1-pre1~2755
X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=568b9cdc646904f0966767467d6a28adaa5c8f68;hp=52ad523c0e7bc159fcc84549bece61bb5c3e44a8

clarify comment

Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/2177)
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diff --git a/crypto/asn1/standard_methods.h b/crypto/asn1/standard_methods.h
index 51b0e81f68..322ba9787f 100644
--- a/crypto/asn1/standard_methods.h
+++ b/crypto/asn1/standard_methods.h
@@ -7,7 +7,11 @@
  * https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
  */
 
-/* Keep this sorted in type order !! */
+/*
+ * This table MUST be kept in ascening order of the NID each method
+ * represents (corresponding to the pkey_id field) as OBJ_bsearch
+ * is used to search it.
+ */
 static const EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD *standard_methods[] = {
 #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_RSA
     &rsa_asn1_meths[0],