PCRE2_SERIALIZE_FREE(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, this is the PCRE2_SERIALIZE_FREE(3) page from the Library Functions Manual, and it's all about PCRE2 — PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API). iconic, honestly. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <pcre2.h>

void pcre2_serialize_free(uint8_t *bytes);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this function frees the memory that was obtained by pcre2_serialize_encode() to hold a serialized byte stream. literally its whole job. 🎀

the argument must point to such a byte stream, or be NULL — and if it's NULL, the function just returns without doing anything. no drama, no cleanup, just vibes. 🫶

there is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the pcre2api page, and a description of the serialization functions in the pcre2serialize page. iykyk. 💖

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mwah 😭💖 this page is from PCRE2 10.47, dated 13 August 2018 — and that's the whole PCRE2_SERIALIZE_FREE(3) Library Functions Manual moment. periodt. 🌈