DC_CONTEXT_FREE(3)

💖 DC_CONTEXT_FREE(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Library Functions Manual — it's a whole libdivecomputer moment and honestly it's giving "short but essential." let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

dc_context_free — free a device-handling context 💅

like, you made a context, now let it go. closure era.

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🌸 LIBRARY 🌸

library “libdivecomputer” — that's the one, no cap 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <libdivecomputer/context.h>

dc_status_t
dc_context_free(dc_context_t *context);

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

So here's the whole vibe: this function frees a context — and specifically, a context that was created by dc_context_new(3) ✨

that's it. that's the function. it's the clean-up bestie, the "we're leaving the party, grab your coat" of the library 🧚

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🔥 RETURN VALUES 🔥

• This returns DC_STATUS_OK on success — or if the pointer is NULL, which lowkey also counts as fine 🙈
• Otherwise, it returns an error code. so like, if something goes sideways, you get a code back. main character behavior: always tells you what's up 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• dc_context_new(3) — the origin story, the prequel, the one you should read first fr fr 🌈

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

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

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

absolute icons, both of them, we stan 🫶

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Debian 🌺 January 5, 2017 🌺 DC_CONTEXT_FREE(3)

and that's the page bestie!! go forth and free your contexts responsibly 💖✨🎀