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_0_2m~34
X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c0f4a5560548f76cfb00a9bbd85b6649df5754d1;p=oweals%2Fopenssl.git

Tweak wording to be more clear.

Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4234)

(cherry picked from commit a130950df92abf7dd787b000403da02af8f41c2d)
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diff --git a/doc/crypto/BN_bn2bin.pod b/doc/crypto/BN_bn2bin.pod
index 3bed47f8f1..f6bb484f90 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/BN_bn2bin.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/BN_bn2bin.pod
@@ -70,8 +70,9 @@ BN_bn2bin() returns the length of the big-endian number placed at B<to>.
 BN_bin2bn() returns the B<BIGNUM>, NULL on error.
 
 BN_bn2hex() and BN_bn2dec() return a null-terminated string, or NULL
-on error. BN_hex2bn() and BN_dec2bn() return the number's length in
-hexadecimal or decimal digits, and 0 on error.
+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.