freebsd-skq/lib/libc/locale/freelocale.3
David Chisnall 58912ae7c3 Small changes to locale-related man pages.
Fix a missing .h and change the recommended include for the POSIX2008 functions from xlocale.h to locale.h.  Including xlocale.h is for legacy / Darwin compatibility so should not be encouraged.
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.Dd September 17, 2011
.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 int
.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 RETURN VALUES
Returns 0 on success or -1 on error.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr duplocale 3 ,
.Xr localeconv 3 ,
.Xr newlocale 3 ,
.Xr querylocale 3 ,
.Xr uselocale 3 ,
.Xr xlocale 3
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Fn freelocale
function
differs from
.St -p1003.1-2008
in that its return type is
.Vt int
rather than
.Vt void .