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.Dd July 26, 2016
.Dt FREELOCALE 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm freelocale
.Nd Frees a locale created with
.Xr duplocale 3
or
.Xr newlocale 3
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In locale.h
.Ft void
.Fn freelocale "locale_t locale"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Frees a
.Fa locale_t .
This relinquishes any resources held exclusively by this locale.
Note that locales share reference-counted components,
so a call to this function is not guaranteed to free all of the components.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr duplocale 3 ,
.Xr localeconv 3 ,
.Xr newlocale 3 ,
.Xr querylocale 3 ,
.Xr uselocale 3 ,
.Xr xlocale 3
.Sh STANDARDS
This function conforms to
.St -p1003.1-2008 .