freelocale(3) [freebsd man page]

FREELOCALE(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					     FREELOCALE(3)

NAME

     freelocale -- Frees a locale created with duplocale(3) or newlocale(3)

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <xlocale.h>

     int
     freelocale(locale_t locale);

DESCRIPTION

     Frees a locale_t.	This relinquishes any resources held exclusively by this locale.  Note that locales share reference-counted components, so
     a call to this function is not guaranteed to free all of the components.

RETURN VALUES

     Returns 0 on success or -1 on error.

SEE ALSO

     duplocale(3), localeconv(3), newlocale(3), querylocale(3), uselocale(3), xlocale(3)

STANDARDS

     The freelocale() function differs from IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (``POSIX.1'') in that its return type is int rather than void.

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FREELOCALE(3P)						     POSIX Programmer's Manual						    FREELOCALE(3P)

PROLOG

       This  manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the correspond-
       ing Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME

       freelocale -- free resources allocated for a locale object

SYNOPSIS

       #include <locale.h>

       void freelocale(locale_t locobj);

DESCRIPTION

       The freelocale() function shall cause the resources allocated for a locale object returned by a call  to  the  newlocale()  or  duplocale()
       functions to be released.

       The behavior is undefined if the locobj argument is the special locale object LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE or is not a valid locale object handle.

       Any use of a locale object that has been freed results in undefined behavior.

RETURN VALUE

       None.

ERRORS

       None.

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

   Freeing Up a Locale Object
       The following example shows a code fragment to free a locale object created by newlocale():

	   #include <locale.h>
	   ...

	   /* Every locale object allocated with newlocale() should be
	    * freed using freelocale():
	    */

	   locale_t loc;

	   /* Get the locale. */

	   loc = newlocale (LC_CTYPE_MASK | LC_TIME_MASK, "locname", NULL);

	   /* ... Use the locale object ... */
	   ...

	   /* Free the locale object resources. */
	   freelocale (loc);

APPLICATION USAGE

       None.

RATIONALE

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

       None.

SEE ALSO

       duplocale(), newlocale(), uselocale()

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2008, <locale.h>

COPYRIGHT

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
       ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C)  2013  by	the  Institute	of
       Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.  (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the
       event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Stan-
       dard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .

       Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source
       files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

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/The Open Group						       2013							    FREELOCALE(3P)