Clarify the deprecation warnings in the docs

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

diff --git a/doc/man3/ERR_get_error.pod b/doc/man3/ERR_get_error.pod
index fb02a3ca073d9906982f00173f77089108ba17c8..b5374e7652d312d5fb5d78f515317090e404dce9 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/ERR_get_error.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/ERR_get_error.pod
@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ ERR_get_error_line_data, ERR_peek_error_line_data, ERR_peek_last_error_line_data
                                        const char *func,
                                        const char **data, int *flags);
 
-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)>:
 
  unsigned long ERR_get_error_line(const char **file, int *line);
  unsigned long ERR_get_error_line_data(const char **file, int *line,