doc: note that the BN_new() initialises the BIGNUM
authorHubert Kario <hkario@redhat.com>
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:10:34 +0000 (13:10 +0200)
committerHubert Kario <hkario@redhat.com>
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:10:34 +0000 (13:10 +0200)
commit681acb311bb7c68c9310d2e96bf2cf0e35443a22
treed4047d65128d59008f2b75d19c132089fb30195c
parentaf3e5e1bda6fa59b5637ca31c0c80a17b29a3787
doc: note that the BN_new() initialises the BIGNUM

BN_new() and BN_secure_new() not only allocate memory, but also
initialise it to deterministic value - 0.

Document that behaviour to make it explicit

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4438)
doc/man3/BN_new.pod