regfree.c

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/*
 * regfree - free an RE
 *
 * Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Henry Spencer.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * Development of this software was funded, in part, by Cray Research Inc.,
 * UUNET Communications Services Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., and Scriptics
 * Corporation, none of whom are responsible for the results.  The author
 * thanks all of them.
 *
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms -- with or without
 * modification -- are permitted for any purpose, provided that
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 * indicate the origin and nature of any modifications.
 *
 * I'd appreciate being given credit for this package in the documentation
 * of software which uses it, but that is not a requirement.
 *
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 *
 * src/backend/regex/regfree.c
 *
 *
 * You might think that this could be incorporated into regcomp.c, and
 * that would be a reasonable idea... except that this is a generic
 * function (with a generic name), applicable to all compiled REs
 * regardless of the size of their characters, whereas the stuff in
 * regcomp.c gets compiled once per character size.
 */

#include "regex/regguts.h"


/*
 * pg_regfree - free an RE (generic function, punts to RE-specific function)
 *
 * Ignoring invocation with NULL is a convenience.
 */
void
pg_regfree(regex_t *re)
{
    if (re == NULL)
        return;
    (*((struct fns *) re->re_fns)->free) (re);
}