Otherwise, if the output BIGNUM was previously negative, we'd incorrectly give
a negative result. Thanks to Guide Vranken for reporting this issue!
Fortunately, this does not appear to come up in any existing caller. This isn't
all that surprising as negative numbers never really come up in cryptography.
Were it not for OpenSSL historically designing a calculator API, we'd just
delete the bit altogether. :-(
Bug: chromium:865924
Change-Id: I28fdc986dfaba3e38435b14ebf07453d537cc60a
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/29944
Commit-Queue: David Benjamin <davidben@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
CQ-Verified: CQ bot account: commit-bot@chromium.org <commit-bot@chromium.org>
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