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diff --git a/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_add_word.3 b/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_add_word.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..930aae4d320 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_add_word.3 @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 23 2015 $ +.Dt BN_ADD_WORD 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm BN_add_word , +.Nm BN_sub_word , +.Nm BN_mul_word , +.Nm BN_div_word , +.Nm BN_mod_word +.Nd arithmetic functions on BIGNUMs with integers +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In openssl/bn.h +.Ft int +.Fo BN_add_word +.Fa "BIGNUM *a" +.Fa "BN_ULONG w" +.Fc +.Ft int +.Fo BN_sub_word +.Fa "BIGNUM *a" +.Fa "BN_ULONG w" +.Fc +.Ft int +.Fo BN_mul_word +.Fa "BIGNUM *a" +.Fa "BN_ULONG w" +.Fc +.Ft BN_ULONG +.Fo BN_div_word +.Fa "BIGNUM *a" +.Fa "BN_ULONG w" +.Fc +.Ft BN_ULONG +.Fo BN_mod_word +.Fa "const BIGNUM *a" +.Fa "BN_ULONG w" +.Fc +.Sh DESCRIPTION +These functions perform arithmetic operations on BIGNUMs with unsigned +integers. +They are much more efficient than the normal BIGNUM arithmetic +operations. +.Pp +.Fn BN_add_word +adds +.Fa w +to +.Fa a +.Pq Li a+=w . +.Pp +.Fn BN_sub_word +subtracts +.Fa w +from +.Fa a +.Pq Li a-=w . +.Pp +.Fn BN_mul_word +multiplies +.Fa a +and +.Fa w +.Pq Li a*=w . +.Pp +.Fn BN_div_word +divides +.Fa a +by +.Fa w +.Pq Li a/=w +and returns the remainder. +.Pp +.Fn BN_mod_word +returns the remainder of +.Fa a +divided by +.Fa w +.Pq Li a%w . +.Pp +For +.Fn BN_div_word +and +.Fn BN_mod_word , +.Fa w +must not be 0. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +.Fn BN_add_word , +.Fn BN_sub_word , +and +.Fn BN_mul_word +return 1 for success, 0 on error. +The error codes can be obtained by +.Xr ERR_get_error 3 . +.Pp +.Fn BN_mod_word +and +.Fn BN_div_word +return +.Fa a Ns % Ns Fa w +on success and +.Pq Vt BN_ULONG Ns -1 +if an error occurred. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr bn 3 , +.Xr BN_add 3 , +.Xr ERR_get_error 3 +.Sh HISTORY +.Fn BN_add_word +and +.Fn BN_mod_word +are available in all versions of SSLeay and OpenSSL. +.Fn BN_div_word +was added in SSLeay 0.8, and +.Fn BN_sub_word +and +.Fn BN_mul_word +in SSLeay 0.9.0. +.Pp +Before 0.9.8a, the return value for +.Fn BN_div_word +and +.Fn BN_mod_word +in case of an error was 0. |