1.\" Copyright (c) 2011 The FreeBSD Foundation 2.\" 3.\" This documentation was written by David Chisnall under sponsorship from 4.\" the FreeBSD Foundation. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 16.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 17.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 18.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 19.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 20.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 21.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 22.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 23.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 24.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 25.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.\" $FreeBSD$ 28.Dd July 26, 2016 29.Dt FREELOCALE 3 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm freelocale 33.Nd Frees a locale created with 34.Xr duplocale 3 35or 36.Xr newlocale 3 37.Sh LIBRARY 38.Lb libc 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40.In locale.h 41.Ft void 42.Fn freelocale "locale_t locale" 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44Frees a 45.Fa locale_t . 46This relinquishes any resources held exclusively by this locale. 47Note that locales share reference-counted components, 48so a call to this function is not guaranteed to free all of the components. 49.Sh SEE ALSO 50.Xr duplocale 3 , 51.Xr localeconv 3 , 52.Xr newlocale 3 , 53.Xr querylocale 3 , 54.Xr uselocale 3 , 55.Xr xlocale 3 56.Sh STANDARDS 57This function conforms to 58.St -p1003.1-2008 . 59