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@@ -18,18 +18,17 @@ ERR_GET_LIB, ERR_GET_REASON, ERR_FATAL_ERROR
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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The error code returned by ERR_get_error() consists of a library
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-number, function code and reason code. ERR_GET_LIB()
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+number and reason code. ERR_GET_LIB()
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and ERR_GET_REASON() can be used to extract these.
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ERR_FATAL_ERROR() indicates whether a given error code is a fatal error.
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-The library number and function code describe where the error
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+The library number describes where the error
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occurred, the reason code is the information about what went wrong.
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-Each sub-library of OpenSSL has a unique library number; function and
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-reason codes are unique within each sub-library. Note that different
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-libraries may use the same value to signal different functions and
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-reasons.
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+Each sub-library of OpenSSL has a unique library number; the
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+reason code is unique within each sub-library. Note that different
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+libraries may use the same value to signal different reasons.
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B<ERR_R_...> reason codes such as B<ERR_R_MALLOC_FAILURE> are globally
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unique. However, when checking for sub-library specific reason codes,
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@@ -39,7 +38,7 @@ ERR_GET_LIB(), ERR_GET_REASON(), and ERR_FATAL_ERROR() are macros.
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=head1 RETURN VALUES
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-The library number, function code, reason code, and whether the error
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+The library number, reason code, and whether the error
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is fatal, respectively.
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Starting with OpenSSL 3.0.0, the function code is always set to zero.
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