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Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/openssl/doc/crypto/BN_CTX_start.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/openssl/doc/crypto/BN_CTX_start.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/openssl/doc/crypto/BN_CTX_start.pod b/crypto/openssl/doc/crypto/BN_CTX_start.pod index c30552b..dfcefe1 100644 --- a/crypto/openssl/doc/crypto/BN_CTX_start.pod +++ b/crypto/openssl/doc/crypto/BN_CTX_start.pod @@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ BN_CTX_start, BN_CTX_get, BN_CTX_end - use temporary BIGNUM variables =head1 DESCRIPTION These functions are used to obtain temporary B<BIGNUM> variables from -a B<BN_CTX> in order to save the overhead of repeatedly creating and +a B<BN_CTX> (which can been created by using L<BN_CTX_new(3)|BN_CTX_new(3)>) +in order to save the overhead of repeatedly creating and freeing B<BIGNUM>s in functions that are called from inside a loop. A function must call BN_CTX_start() first. Then, BN_CTX_get() may be |
