EC_NODE_FREE(3)

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🎀 EC_NODE_FREE 🎀

okay so hi bestie, welcome to the Libecoli Programmer's Manual 💖 this page is about one lil function that does one lil job and honestly? it eats. it's giving "clean up after yourself" energy and we respect it. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ec_node_free — decrements the node's reference counter, and frees the node if that was the last reference. that's the whole plot. no plot twists. 💅

so like, if other people are still holding a reference to that node, it just quietly drops the count and walks away. but if you were the last one holding it? boom. freed. main character exit. 👑

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

#include <ecoli/node.h>

void ec_node_free(
    struct ec_node   *node   /* The grammar node to free. */
);

so yeah, you gotta pull in <ecoli/node.h> first, no cap — that's where the whole thing lives. 🦋

and then you hand it exactly one thing: node, which is the grammar node you want to free. that's your girl. she's a struct ec_node *. send her off. 😭

heads up bestie: the return type is void. it does not hand you back a status, a code, a little note, nothing. it just does the thing. silence. iconic behaviour, honestly. ✨

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

like, go read her friends too, they're all part of the same squad 💜:

iykyk, that's a whole friend group right there 🧚

Copyright (C) 2010-2026 Olivier Matz, Robin Jarry.

and that's the page bestie, we're done here 🍓 thanks for coming to my ted talk — this was libecoli, dated 2026-06-11, and she ate every single time 💖✨🎀

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