pcre2_serialize_free(3)

pcre2_serialize_free3

Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised api)

Usage

#include <pcre2.h>

void pcre2_serialize_free(uint8_t *bytes);

Overview

This function frees the memory that was obtained by pcre2_serialize_encode() to hold a serialized byte stream. The argument must point to such a byte stream or be NULL, in which case the function returns without doing anything.

There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the pcre2api page and a description of the serialization functions in the pcre2serialize page.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10–12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

From pcre2 10.49-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.