FcBlanksDestroy(3)
π NAME π
okay so bestie, welcome to FcBlanksDestroy β the man page for FcBlanksDestroy, and ngl the original one-liner literally says "Destroy and FcBlanks" and we're keeping that energy fr fr, no edits, it ate π
If you came here looking for lore about destroying an FcBlanks... girl, same. But the summary is: FcBlanksDestroy β Destroy and FcBlanks. that's it. that's the whole thing. π
β¨ SYNOPSIS β¨
#include <fontconfig/fontconfig.h>
void FcBlanksDestroy (FcBlanks *b);
so you include the header, you call the function with your FcBlanks *b pointer, and that's the entire vibe. icon behavior honestly π«Ά
πΈ DESCRIPTION πΈ
okay so here's the tea and it's major: FcBlanks is deprecated. like, fully deprecated, not "deprecated but still kinda works," deprecation with a capital D. π
and because of that, FcBlanksDestroy literally does nothing. no cap. it does not destroy, it does not blank, it does not touch your b, it does not pass go, it does not collect $200. you call it and the universe simply does not respond. it's giving function-shaped void πβ¨
bestie do NOT read this as "oh so I need to call it to clean up" β it does nothing. that's the whole spec. it's a no-op with main character energy and we respect it. π₯
so if you were expecting chaos, explosions, freed memory, anything β nope! nothing. zero. the most low-stakes function in the whole header. π¦
π little sign-off π
this iconic little no-op has been chilling in Fontconfig 2.17.0, dated 27 June 2025, and honestly? she's serving absolutely nothing and doing it beautifully. slay, queen, keep doing nothing ππ π
π¦ where this page comes from
- fedora 43: fontconfig-devel 2.17.0-3.fc43 Β· HPND AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND Unicode-DFS-2016
- fedora 43: fontconfig-devel 2.17.0-3.fc43 Β· HPND AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND Unicode-DFS-2016
- fedora 44: fontconfig-devel 2.17.0-4.fc44 Β· HPND AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND Unicode-DFS-2016
- fedora 44: fontconfig-devel 2.17.0-4.fc44 Β· HPND AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND Unicode-DFS-2016
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms