1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libcrypto/x509/x509_utl.c b/src/lib/libcrypto/x509/x509_utl.c
index e5e95bfac5..422e89989a 100644
--- a/src/lib/libcrypto/x509/x509_utl.c
+++ b/src/lib/libcrypto/x509/x509_utl.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: x509_utl.c,v 1.18 2024/06/18 08:29:40 tb Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: x509_utl.c,v 1.19 2024/07/08 06:57:37 jca Exp $ */
 /* Written by Dr Stephen N Henson (steve@openssl.org) for the OpenSSL
  * project.
  */
@@ -1325,9 +1325,10 @@ ipv6_from_asc(unsigned char *v6, const char *in)
         v6stat.zero_pos = -1;
         v6stat.zero_cnt = 0;
 
-        /* Treat the IPv6 representation as a list of values
-         * separated by ':'. The presence of a '::' will parse
-         * as one, two or three zero length elements.
+        /*
+         * Treat the IPv6 representation as a list of values separated by ':'.
+         * The presence of a '::' will parse as one (e.g., "2001:db8::1"),
+         * two (e.g., "2001:db8::") or three (e.g., "::") zero length elements.
          */
         if (!CONF_parse_list(in, ':', 0, ipv6_cb, &v6stat))
                 return 0;