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26.Dd July 26, 2016
27.Dt FREELOCALE 3
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm freelocale
31.Nd Frees a locale created with
32.Xr duplocale 3
33or
34.Xr newlocale 3
35.Sh LIBRARY
36.Lb libc
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In locale.h
39.Ft void
40.Fn freelocale "locale_t locale"
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42Frees a
43.Fa locale_t .
44This relinquishes any resources held exclusively by this locale.
45Note that locales share reference-counted components,
46so a call to this function is not guaranteed to free all of the components.
47.Sh SEE ALSO
48.Xr duplocale 3 ,
49.Xr localeconv 3 ,
50.Xr newlocale 3 ,
51.Xr querylocale 3 ,
52.Xr uselocale 3 ,
53.Xr xlocale 3
54.Sh STANDARDS
55This function conforms to
56.St -p1003.1-2008 .
57