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Re: regfree


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: regfree
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:35:34 -0600
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On 07/20/2010 09:29 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Not sure who owns GNU regex (it seems to be be deprecated, e.g. no
> documentation in glibc, but maintained), but I thought the folks here
> among the most likely to have a sensible answer to this question:

It is not deprecated; if glibc lacks proper documentation, then report
that as a bug to glibc.

> 
> How should I free the memory allocated by re_compile? regfree seems to
> work fine, but it's odd to use a POSIX compatibility API when I'm
> otherwise using the GNU API

Odd or not, that is the correct usage pattern.  regfree() is the correct
way to release memory allocated by re_compile.

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