to a B<BIGNUM> and stores it in **B<bn>. If *B<bn> is NULL, a new
B<BIGNUM> is created. If B<bn> is NULL, it only computes the number's
length in hexadecimal digits. If the string starts with '-', the
-number is negative. BN_dec2bn() is the same using the decimal system.
+number is negative.
+A "negative zero" is converted to zero.
+BN_dec2bn() is the same using the decimal system.
BN_print() and BN_print_fp() write the hexadecimal encoding of B<a>,
with a leading '-' for negative numbers, to the B<BIO> or B<FILE>
B<fp>.
BN_bn2mpi() and BN_mpi2bn() convert B<BIGNUM>s from and to a format
-that consists of the number's length in bytes represented as a 3-byte
+that consists of the number's length in bytes represented as a 4-byte
big-endian number, and the number itself in big-endian format, where
the most significant bit signals a negative number (the representation
of numbers with the MSB set is prefixed with null byte).
=head1 SEE ALSO
-L<bn(3)|bn(3)>, L<err(3)|err(3)>, L<BN_zero(3)|BN_zero(3)>,
+L<bn(3)|bn(3)>, L<ERR_get_error(3)|ERR_get_error(3)>, L<BN_zero(3)|BN_zero(3)>,
L<ASN1_INTEGER_to_BN(3)|ASN1_INTEGER_to_BN(3)>,
L<BN_num_bytes(3)|BN_num_bytes(3)>