1.\" Copyright (c) 2011 The FreeBSD Foundation 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This documentation was written by David Chisnall under sponsorship from 5.\" the FreeBSD Foundation. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" $FreeBSD: head/lib/libc/locale/freelocale.3 303495 2016-07-29 17:18:47Z ed $ 29.Dd November 7, 2016 30.Dt FREELOCALE 3 31.Os 32.Sh NAME 33.Nm freelocale 34.Nd Frees a locale created with 35.Xr duplocale 3 36or 37.Xr newlocale 3 38.Sh LIBRARY 39.Lb libc 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.In locale.h 42.Ft void 43.Fn freelocale "locale_t locale" 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45Frees a 46.Fa locale_t . 47This relinquishes any resources held exclusively by this locale. 48Note that locales share reference-counted components, 49so a call to this function is not guaranteed to free all of the components. 50.Sh SEE ALSO 51.Xr duplocale 3 , 52.Xr localeconv 3 , 53.Xr newlocale 3 , 54.Xr querylocale 3 , 55.Xr uselocale 3 , 56.Xr xlocale 3 57.Sh STANDARDS 58This function conforms to 59.St -p1003.1-2008 . 60