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| author | T.Yanagisawa <52776010+mogisawa@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-08-27 04:11:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2020-08-28 11:25:08 +0200 |
| commit | b6ef3c7089e887427cde8c550e28211dc0c22dd1 (patch) | |
| tree | 25b3420a671cbd39288851b0a5584bf0c6898cfa /doc | |
| parent | conf: add diagnostic option (diff) | |
| download | openssl-b6ef3c7089e887427cde8c550e28211dc0c22dd1.tar.xz openssl-b6ef3c7089e887427cde8c550e28211dc0c22dd1.zip | |
Correct description of BN_mask_bits
CLA: trivial
Correct right shift to left shift.
Pseudo code `a&=~((~0)>>n)` means "get higher n-bits of a", but actually crypto lib gives lower n-bits.
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12727)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/BN_set_bit.pod | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/BN_set_bit.pod b/doc/man3/BN_set_bit.pod index c2bed68d91..349ef9e056 100644 --- a/doc/man3/BN_set_bit.pod +++ b/doc/man3/BN_set_bit.pod @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ error occurs if B<a> is shorter than B<n> bits. BN_is_bit_set() tests if bit B<n> in B<a> is set. BN_mask_bits() truncates B<a> to an B<n> bit number -(C<a&=~((~0)E<gt>E<gt>n)>). An error occurs if B<a> already is +(C<a&=~((~0)E<lt>E<lt>n)>). An error occurs if B<a> already is shorter than B<n> bits. BN_lshift() shifts B<a> left by B<n> bits and places the result in |