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BN_ZERO(3ossl) OpenSSL BN_ZERO(3ossl)
NAME
BN_zero, BN_one, BN_value_one, BN_set_word, BN_get_word - BIGNUM
assignment operations
SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/bn.h>
void BN_zero(BIGNUM *a);
int BN_one(BIGNUM *a);
const BIGNUM *BN_value_one(void);
int BN_set_word(BIGNUM *a, BN_ULONG w);
unsigned BN_ULONG BN_get_word(BIGNUM *a);
DESCRIPTION
BN_ULONG is a macro that will be an unsigned integral type optimized
for the most efficient implementation on the local platform.
BN_zero(), BN_one() and BN_set_word() set a to the values 0, 1 and w
respectively. BN_zero() and BN_one() are macros.
BN_value_one() returns a BIGNUM constant of value 1. This constant is
useful for use in comparisons and assignment.
BN_get_word() returns a, if it can be represented as a BN_ULONG.
RETURN VALUES
BN_get_word() returns the value a, or all-bits-set if a cannot be
represented as a single integer.
BN_one() and BN_set_word() return 1 on success, 0 otherwise.
BN_value_one() returns the constant. BN_zero() never fails and returns
no value.
BUGS
If a BIGNUM is equal to the value of all-bits-set, it will collide with
the error condition returned by BN_get_word() which uses that as an
error value.
BN_ULONG should probably be a typedef.
SEE ALSO
BN_bn2bin(3)
HISTORY
In OpenSSL 0.9.8, BN_zero() was changed to not return a value; previous
versions returned an int.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2000-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
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