DC_BUFFER_FREE(3)

💖 DC_BUFFER_FREE(3) 💖

okay so bestie, this one's from the Library Functions Manual, and it's literally the shortest little cleanup queen you'll ever meet 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

dc_buffer_free — free a resizable binary buffer 🫶

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📚 LIBRARY 📚

library “libdivecomputer” — that's the one, the dive computer girlies' fave 💅

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🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

#include <libdivecomputer/buffer.h>

void
dc_buffer_free(dc_buffer_t *buffer);

like, that's the whole signature. no cap, that's it 💜

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So picture this: you made a resizable binary buffer with dc_buffer_new(3), right? iconic. main character energy. but now you're done with it and you gotta let it go 😭

dc_buffer_free frees that resizable binary buffer. that's the job. that's the whole job. slay 💅

and here's the bestie-approved part: it's safe to pass NULL to this function. fr fr. no crash, no drama, no "not me segfaulting at 3am" moment. you can just hand it NULL and it's like okay cool, nothing to do, byeee ✨

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• dc_buffer_new(3) — the one that makes the buffer in the first place, the origin story 💫

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

The library “libdivecomputer” library was written by Jef Driesen, jef@libdivecomputer.org. 🧚‍♀️

The manpages were written by Kristaps Dzonsons, kristaps@bsd.lv. 🌈

give them their flowers, they ate 🔥

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ngl, this page is tiny but it's giving "small but mighty" and honestly? obsessed 🍓

okay that's the whole page, ily, go free your buffers responsibly 💖

this masterpiece dropped from Debian on January 5, 2017 — yes it's a 2017 babe and it's still serving ✨ mwah 💋