From: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:06:41 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Tweak wording to be more clear.
X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_1_1_1-pre1~781
X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=a130950df92abf7dd787b000403da02af8f41c2d

Tweak wording to be more clear.

Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4234)
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diff --git a/doc/man3/BN_bn2bin.pod b/doc/man3/BN_bn2bin.pod
index 367fa2e493..ac46948477 100644
--- a/doc/man3/BN_bn2bin.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/BN_bn2bin.pod
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ BN_bn2binpad() returns the number of bytes written or -1 if the supplied
 buffer is too small.
 
 BN_bn2hex() and BN_bn2dec() return a null-terminated string, or NULL
-on error. BN_hex2bn() and BN_dec2bn() return the length of valid
-representation in hexadecimal or decimal digits, and 0 on error, in which
+on error. BN_hex2bn() and BN_dec2bn() return the number of characters
+used in parsing, or 0 on error, in which
 case no new B<BIGNUM> will be created.
 
 BN_print_fp() and BN_print() return 1 on success, 0 on write errors.