BigNumInit

Initializes context and partitions allocated buffer.

Syntax

IppStatus ippsBigNumInit(int length, IppsBigNumState *b);

Parameters

length	Size of the big number for the context initialization.
b	Pointer to the supplied buffer used to store the initialized context IppsBigNumState.

Description

This function is declared in the ippcp.h file. The function initializes the context IppsBigNumState using the specified buffer space and partitions the given buffer to store and execute arithmetic operations on an integer big number of the length size.

Return Values

ippStsNoErr	Indicates no error. Any other value indicates an error or warning.
ippStsNullPtrErr	Indicates an error condition if any of the specified pointers is NULL.
ippStsLengthErr	Indicates an error condition if length is less than or equal to 0.