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authorUlf Möller <ulf@openssl.org>2000-02-27 12:30:07 +0000
committerUlf Möller <ulf@openssl.org>2000-02-27 12:30:07 +0000
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remove obsolete BN_CTX info
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diff --git a/doc/crypto/bn_internal.pod b/doc/crypto/bn_internal.pod
index 4263c18..139bff7 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/bn_internal.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/bn_internal.pod
@@ -92,18 +92,8 @@ Various routines in this library require the use of temporary
B<BIGNUM> variables during their execution. Since dynamic memory
allocation to create B<BIGNUM>s is rather expensive when used in
conjunction with repeated subroutine calls, the B<BN_CTX> structure is
-used. This structure contains B<BN_CTX_NUM> B<BIGNUM>s.
-B<BN_CTX_NUM> is the maximum number of temporary B<BIGNUM>s any
-publicly exported function will use.
-
- #define BN_CTX_NUM 12
- typedef struct bignum_ctx
- {
- int tos; /* top of stack */
- BIGNUM *bn[BN_CTX_NUM]; /* The variables */
- } BN_CTX;
-
-B<tos> is the index of the first unused B<BIGNUM> in the B<bn> array.
+used. This structure contains B<BN_CTX_NUM> B<BIGNUM>s, see
+L<BN_CTX_start(3)|BN_CTX_start(3)>.
=head2 Low-level arithmetic operations