Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
---
 man3/regex.3 | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man3/regex.3 b/man3/regex.3
index 3f1529583..e3dd72a74 100644
--- a/man3/regex.3
+++ b/man3/regex.3
@@ -225,12 +225,10 @@ .SS Error reporting
 .IR errbuf ;
 the error string is always null-terminated, and truncated to fit.
 .SS Freeing
-Supplying
 .BR regfree ()
-with a precompiled pattern buffer,
-.IR preg ,
-will free the memory allocated to the pattern buffer by the compiling
-process,
+invalidates the pattern buffer at
+.IR *preg ,
+which must have been initialized via
 .BR regcomp ().
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 .BR regcomp ()
-- 
2.30.2