Place return values after examples in doc

[openssl.git] / doc / man3 / d2i_X509.pod

diff --git a/doc/man3/d2i_X509.pod b/doc/man3/d2i_X509.pod
index c11da95178d8ef996c90f7c6aa86db77842e162e..23dc73c33622960a75544b766fc93d04bfbd5ff9 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/d2i_X509.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/d2i_X509.pod
@@ -496,6 +496,19 @@ Represents the B<DigestInfo> structure defined in PKCS#1 and PKCS#7.
 
 =back
 
+=head1 RETURN VALUES
+
+d2i_TYPE(), d2i_TYPE_bio() and d2i_TYPE_fp() return a valid B<TYPE> structure
+or B<NULL> if an error occurs.  If the "reuse" capability has been used with
+a valid structure being passed in via B<a>, then the object is not freed in
+the event of error but may be in a potentially invalid or inconsistent state.
+
+i2d_TYPE() returns the number of bytes successfully encoded or a negative
+value if an error occurs.
+
+i2d_TYPE_bio() and i2d_TYPE_fp() return 1 for success and 0 if an error
+occurs.
+
 =head1 EXAMPLES
 
 Allocate and encode the DER encoding of an X509 structure:
@@ -586,19 +599,6 @@ structure has been modified after deserialization or previous
 serialization. This is because some objects cache the encoding for
 efficiency reasons.
 
-=head1 RETURN VALUES
-
-d2i_TYPE(), d2i_TYPE_bio() and d2i_TYPE_fp() return a valid B<TYPE> structure
-or B<NULL> if an error occurs.  If the "reuse" capability has been used with
-a valid structure being passed in via B<a>, then the object is not freed in
-the event of error but may be in a potentially invalid or inconsistent state.
-
-i2d_TYPE() returns the number of bytes successfully encoded or a negative
-value if an error occurs.
-
-i2d_TYPE_bio() and i2d_TYPE_fp() return 1 for success and 0 if an error
-occurs.
-
 =head1 COPYRIGHT
 
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