1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Title: curl_free 5Section: 3 6Source: libcurl 7See-also: 8 - curl_easy_escape (3) 9 - curl_easy_unescape (3) 10Protocol: 11 - All 12Added-in: 7.1 13--- 14 15# NAME 16 17curl_free - reclaim memory that has been obtained through a libcurl call 18 19# SYNOPSIS 20 21~~~c 22#include <curl/curl.h> 23 24void curl_free(void *ptr); 25~~~ 26 27# DESCRIPTION 28 29curl_free reclaims memory that has been obtained through a libcurl call. Use 30curl_free(3) instead of free() to avoid anomalies that can result from 31differences in memory management between your application and libcurl. 32 33Passing in a NULL pointer in *ptr* makes this function return immediately 34with no action. 35 36# %PROTOCOLS% 37 38# EXAMPLE 39 40~~~c 41int main(void) 42{ 43 char *width = curl_getenv("COLUMNS"); 44 if(width) { 45 /* it was set! */ 46 curl_free(width); 47 } 48} 49~~~ 50 51# %AVAILABILITY% 52 53# RETURN VALUE 54 55None 56
