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| author | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2021-12-02 11:33:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2021-12-06 11:23:34 +0000 |
| commit | 3dbf82438004b31258627f324841476c4f586c19 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a78a660e58a6277ae78f2872552d09491774d23 /doc/man3/EC_GROUP_copy.pod | |
| parent | c87a4dd7a728288da943cb4e2e51150df5dfd1b8 (diff) | |
| download | openssl-3dbf82438004b31258627f324841476c4f586c19.tar.gz | |
Clarify the deprecation warnings in the docs
There was recently an instance where a user was confused by the
deprecation warnings in the docs. They believed the warning applied to
the immediately preceding function declarations, when it fact it applied
to the following function declarations.
https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-users/2021-December/014665.html
We clarify the wording to make it clear that the warning applies to the
following functions.
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/17180)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man3/EC_GROUP_copy.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/EC_GROUP_copy.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/EC_GROUP_copy.pod b/doc/man3/EC_GROUP_copy.pod index c74e70edf5..3702f7368c 100644 --- a/doc/man3/EC_GROUP_copy.pod +++ b/doc/man3/EC_GROUP_copy.pod @@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ EC_GROUP_get_field_type int EC_GROUP_get_field_type(const EC_GROUP *group); -Deprecated since OpenSSL 3.0: +The following function has been deprecated since OpenSSL 3.0, and can be +hidden entirely by defining B<OPENSSL_API_COMPAT> with a suitable version value, +see L<openssl_user_macros(7)>: const EC_METHOD *EC_GROUP_method_of(const EC_GROUP *group); |