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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