="../man3/OSSL_ALGORITHM.html">OSSL_ALGORITHM(3)</a> arrays that are returned by the provider&#39;s provider_query_operation() function (see <a href="../man7/provider-base.html">&quot;Provider Functions&quot; in provider-base(7)</a>).</p>

<p>All these &quot;functions&quot; have a corresponding function type definition named <b>OSSL_FUNC_{name}_fn</b>, and a helper function to retrieve the function pointer from an <a href="../man3/OSSL_DISPATCH.html">OSSL_DISPATCH(3)</a> element named <b>OSSL_FUNC_{name}</b