Clarify the deprecation warnings in the docs

[thirdparty/openssl.git] / doc / man3 / EC_POINT_add.pod

diff --git a/doc/man3/EC_POINT_add.pod b/doc/man3/EC_POINT_add.pod
index b276be46ed943408b58090c724eb3c01cd331251..10036c9596a273b3e54ebd5e6f5fb3df68de7a24 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/EC_POINT_add.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EC_POINT_add.pod
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ EC_POINT_add, EC_POINT_dbl, EC_POINT_invert, EC_POINT_is_at_infinity, EC_POINT_i
  int EC_POINT_mul(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *r, const BIGNUM *n,
                   const EC_POINT *q, const BIGNUM *m, BN_CTX *ctx);
 
-Deprecated since OpenSSL 3.0:
+The following functions have been deprecated since OpenSSL 3.0, and can be
+hidden entirely by defining B<OPENSSL_API_COMPAT> with a suitable version value,
+see L<openssl_user_macros(7)>:
 
  int EC_POINT_make_affine(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *point, BN_CTX *ctx);
  int EC_POINTs_make_affine(const EC_GROUP *group, size_t num,