document BN_zero_ex(3)

diff --git a/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_zero.3 b/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_zero.3
index 1e1d2fc..aa3e8a0 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_zero.3
+++ b/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_zero.3
@@ -1,9 +1,26 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: BN_zero.3,v 1.10 2021/11/30 18:34:35 tb Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: BN_zero.3,v 1.11 2021/12/19 16:18:34 schwarze Exp $
 .\" full merge up to: OpenSSL a528d4f0 Oct 27 13:40:11 2015 -0400
 .\" selective merge up to: OpenSSL b713c4ff Jan 22 14:41:09 2018 -0500
 .\"
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-.\" Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2018 The OpenSSL Project.
+.\" This file is a derived work.
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+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2021 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
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@@ -50,10 +67,11 @@
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 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 30 2021 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 19 2021 $
 .Dt BN_ZERO 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
+.Nm BN_zero_ex ,
 .Nm BN_zero ,
 .Nm BN_one ,
 .Nm BN_value_one ,
@@ -62,6 +80,10 @@
 .Nd BIGNUM assignment operations
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .In openssl/bn.h
+.Ft void
+.Fo BN_zero_ex
+.Fa "BIGNUM *a"
+.Fc
 .Ft int
 .Fo BN_zero
 .Fa "BIGNUM *a"
@@ -88,7 +110,7 @@
 is a macro that expands to an unsigned integral type optimized
 for the most efficient implementation on the local platform.
 .Pp
-.Fn BN_zero ,
+.Fn BN_zero_ex ,
 .Fn BN_one ,
 and
 .Fn BN_set_word
@@ -98,6 +120,12 @@ to the values 0, 1 and
 .Fa w
 respectively.
 .Fn BN_zero
+is a deprecated version of
+.Fn BN_zero_ex
+that may attempt to allocate memory; consequently, and in contrast to
+.Fn BN_zero_ex ,
+it may fail.
+.Fn BN_zero
 and
 .Fn BN_one
 are macros.
@@ -137,8 +165,12 @@ and
 first appeared in SSLeay 0.5.1.
 .Fn BN_get_word
 first appeared in SSLeay 0.6.0.
-All these functions have been available since
+These functions have been available since
 .Ox 2.4 .
+.Pp
+.Fn BN_zero_ex
+first appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.8 and has been available since
+.Ox 4.5 .
 .Sh BUGS
 Someone might change the constant.
 .Pp