doc update

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7fbeb31..95d76d5 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ GNU Libtasn1 NEWS                                     -*- outline -*-
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 3.7 (unreleased) [stable]
 - asn1_der_decoding_element() is an alias to asn1_der_decoding().
+- optimized asn1_der_decoding_startEnd(). It only performs the decoding
+  step, if it is not already done.
+- Added asn1_copy_node2().
 - Fixes in DER decoding.
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 3.6 (released 2014-05-25) [stable]

diff --git a/lib/decoding.c b/lib/decoding.c
index 510bb67..8f6fe8a 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/decoding.c
+++ b/lib/decoding.c
@@ -880,11 +880,12 @@ static void delete_unneeded_choice_fields(asn1_node p)
  * @errorDescription: null-terminated string contains details when an
  *   error occurred.
  *
- * Fill the structure *@ELEMENT with values of a DER encoding
+ * Fill the structure *@element with values of a DER encoding
  * string. The structure must just be created with function
- * asn1_create_element().  If an error occurs during the decoding
- * procedure, the *@ELEMENT is deleted and set equal to
- * %NULL.
+ * asn1_create_element(). 
+ *
+ * Note that the *@element variable is provided as a pointer for
+ * historical reasons.
  *
  * Returns: %ASN1_SUCCESS if DER encoding OK, %ASN1_ELEMENT_NOT_FOUND
  *   if @ELEMENT is %NULL, and %ASN1_TAG_ERROR or