ARES_FREE_STRING(3)

✨ ARES_FREE_STRING ✨

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Library Functions Manual and it's called ares_free_string — the little cleanup crew of the ares world 💖

🎀 NAME 🎀

ares_free_string — free strings allocated by ares functions

like, it frees the strings that ares functions gave you. that's the whole job. and she does it flawlessly 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <ares.h>

void ares_free_string(void *str)

look at her. two lines. no notes. iconic 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea 🍓 — the ares_free_string(3) function frees a string that was allocated by an ares function.

that's it. that's the function. you got a string from ares, you're done with it, you hand it back here so it doesn't just vibe in memory forever like a situationship that never ends 😭 no cap, that's the entire plot.

don't be out here freeing random strings with this — she's for ares-allocated strings specifically. iykyk 🫶

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• ares_mkquery(3)
• ares_expand_string(3)

go read those too, bestie, they're the ones handing you the strings in the first place 🌈

mwah 💋 that's the whole page — written up on 4 February 2004 for the Library Functions Manual, and yes she's still serving after all these years ✨💖