hx509_misc(3)

💖 hx509_misc — hx509 misc functions 💖

okay bestie, welcome to hx509_misc, straight out of the Heimdal x509 library manual, section 3 (library calls, for the uninitiated 💅). it's giving "short but essential". it's giving "two little cleanup functions that will absolutely save your whole entire program from leaking memory like a broken boba straw". no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

🎀 Functions 🎀

here's the whole roster, bestie, every single one:

void hx509_free_octet_string_list (hx509_octet_string_list *list)
void hx509_xfree (void *ptr)

that's it. that's the list. two icons. two little legends. 🔥

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🌸 Detailed Description 🌸

hx509 misc functions — that's the whole vibe of the description, girl. it's the miscellaneous drawer of the library, and honestly? the miscellaneous drawer is always where the good stuff lives. 🫶

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👑 Function Documentation 👑

🧚 void hx509_free_octet_string_list (hx509_octet_string_list * list)

free a list of octet strings returned by another hx509 library function.

so like — when some other hx509 function hands you back a list of octet strings, this is the girl you call to release it. it doesn't do anything fancy, it just cleans up after the function that gave you the list in the first place. it's the "you brought it into this world, now help it leave" energy. 😭

Parameters

• list — list to be freed. that's the list, bestie. the one you want gone. 💀

🦋 void hx509_xfree (void * ptr)

free a data element allocated in the library.

if the library allocated some data for you, and you're done with it, this is how you let it go. it's the generic free for library-allocated stuff — one pointer in, peace out. ✨

Parameters

• ptr — data to be freed. yes, exactly that data. the data you're freeing. iykyk. 🎀

⚠️ real talk though, bestie: these are freeing functions. don't go double-freeing and don't free stuff the library didn't allocate, because that is not the slay you think it is. it's giving undefined behaviour. periodt.

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💜 Author 💜

Generated automatically by Doxygen for Heimdal x509 library from the source code. so like, credit where credit is due — the docs wrote themselves and honestly? self-made king behaviour. 👑

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and that's the whole page, bestie. Version 7.8.0, dated Tue Nov 15 2022 — that's the source/version and date energy, and yes we are shouting them out at the end like the icons they are. go forth, free your pointers, and stay leak-free. 🫶💖✨🌸