FREELOCALE(3POSIX)

💖 FREELOCALE(3POSIX) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the POSIX Programmer's Manual entry for freelocale — yes it's a whole real man page, and yes we're gonna make it cute. 🎀

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🌸 PROLOG 🌸

so like, heads up: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, go peek at the corresponding Linux manual page for the actual tea. or honestly, the interface might not even be implemented on Linux at all. it's giving "check your own system, queen." 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

freelocale — free resources allocated for a locale object. it's the cleanup era, and we're obsessed. 🧹✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <locale.h>

void freelocale(locale_t locobj);

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

The freelocale() function shall cause the resources allocated for a locale object returned by a call to the newlocale() or duplocale() functions to be released. basically: you made a locale object, now you're letting it go. releasing it back into the wild. main character exit. 🌈

⚠️ okay but fr fr: the behavior is undefined if the locobj argument is the special locale object LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE, or if it's not a valid locale object handle. like, don't do that. not the vibe.

💀 and ALSO — any use of a locale object that has been freed results in undefined behavior. it's gone, bestie. it's not coming back. don't text it. don't call it. don't dereference it.

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🌟 RETURN VALUE 🌟

None. nothing. void. it returns the silence of a job well done. 😌

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🍓 ERRORS 🍓

None. no errors, no drama, no notes. periodt.

The following sections are informative.

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🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

🧚 Freeing Up a Locale Object

The following example shows a code fragment to free a locale object created by newlocale():

#include <locale.h>
...

/* Every locale object allocated with newlocale() should be
 * freed using freelocale():
 */

locale_t loc;

/* Get the locale. */

loc = newlocale (LC_CTYPE_MASK | LC_TIME_MASK, "locname", NULL);

/* ... Use the locale object ... */
...

/* Free the locale object resources. */
freelocale (loc);

see how the comment literally says every locale object allocated with newlocale() should be freed using freelocale()? that's the rule. that's the whole assignment. no leaks in this household. 🔥

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💅 APPLICATION USAGE 💅

None. nothing to add. it's giving minimalism.

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👑 RATIONALE 👑

None. the reasoning is between you and the standard.

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⭐ FUTURE DIRECTIONS ⭐

None. the future is unspecified, as usual. we'll see. 🙈

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• duplocale()
• newlocale()
• uselocale()

The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, <locale.h>

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

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IEEE/The Open Group · 2017 · FREELOCALE(3POSIX) — and that's the whole page bestie, ty for coming to my ted talk, go free your locales and hydrate 💧💖✨