Signed-off-by: Ahelenia ZiemiaƄska --- Range-diff against v6: 1: 4b7971a5e ! 1: 2632fe5c8 regex.3: Desoupify regfree() description @@ man3/regex.3: .SS Error reporting -process, +invalidates the pattern buffer at +.IR *preg , -+which must have been initialized via ++freeing any associated memory; ++.I *preg ++must have been initialized via .BR regcomp (). .SH RETURN VALUE .BR regcomp () man3/regex.3 | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/man3/regex.3 b/man3/regex.3 index 3f1529583..46a4a12b9 100644 --- a/man3/regex.3 +++ b/man3/regex.3 @@ -225,12 +225,12 @@ .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 , +freeing any associated memory; +.I *preg +must have been initialized via .BR regcomp (). .SH RETURN VALUE .BR regcomp () -- 2.30.2