DOC: Rewrite the section on reporting errors in doc/man3/ERR_put_error.pod

[openssl.git] / doc / man3 / OPENSSL_secure_malloc.pod

diff --git a/doc/man3/OPENSSL_secure_malloc.pod b/doc/man3/OPENSSL_secure_malloc.pod
index e47dfd673a26e64674d02a671cd566765cad1de8..c5d4bb2dbbb8c2c753e34844cbff759e6e515432 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/OPENSSL_secure_malloc.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/OPENSSL_secure_malloc.pod
@@ -53,8 +53,10 @@ put all intermediate values and computations there.
 
 CRYPTO_secure_malloc_init() creates the secure heap, with the specified
 C<size> in bytes. The C<minsize> parameter is the minimum size to
-allocate from the heap. Both C<size> and C<minsize> must be a power
-of two.
+allocate from the heap or zero to use a reasonable default value.
+Both C<size> and, if specified, C<minsize> must be a power of two and
+C<minsize> should generally be small, for example 16 or 32.
+C<minsize> must be less than a quarter of C<size> in any case.
 
 CRYPTO_secure_malloc_initialized() indicates whether or not the secure
 heap as been initialized and is available.
@@ -131,7 +133,7 @@ a B<size_t> in OpenSSL 3.0.
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT
 
-Copyright 2015-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+Copyright 2015-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License").  You may not use
 this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy