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60 .Nd BIGNUM assignment operations
91 to the values 0, 1 and
103 This constant is useful for use in comparisons and assignment.
108 if it can be represented as an
116 cannot be represented as an
123 return 1 on success, 0 otherwise.
125 returns the constant.
130 .Xr BN_set_negative 3
136 are available in all versions of SSLeay and OpenSSL.
140 were added in SSLeay 0.8.
143 was changed to return a true
147 Someone might change the constant.
151 is equal to 0xffffffffL; it can be represented as an
153 but this value is also returned on error.