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authorWerner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>2023-04-03 10:21:13 +0200
committerWerner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>2023-04-03 10:22:56 +0200
commit3660935d2d5053584f2c9349c6ff454c51c8bbfc (patch)
treeca426c98de5257fc472cedf38f4fe3548949fec8
parent7edf1abb9a0d892a80cbf7ab42f64b2720671ee9 (diff)
downloadlibgcrypt-3660935d2d5053584f2c9349c6ff454c51c8bbfc.tar.gz
doc: Add remark that leading zeroes are stripped from printed MPIs.
-- GnuPG-bug-id: 6435
-rw-r--r--doc/gcrypt.texi3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/gcrypt.texi b/doc/gcrypt.texi
index 752f64d6..3719cd83 100644
--- a/doc/gcrypt.texi
+++ b/doc/gcrypt.texi
@@ -5245,7 +5245,8 @@ Simple unsigned integer.
@noindent
Note that all of the above formats store the integer in big-endian
-format (MSB first).
+format (MSB first). Leading zeroes are stripped unless they are
+required to keep a value positive.
@end deftypefun