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ARES_FREE_DATA

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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AVAILABILITY
SEE ALSO

NAME

ares_free_data - Free data allocated by several c-ares functions

SYNOPSIS

#include <ares.h>

void ares_free_data(void * dataptr )

DESCRIPTION

The ares_free_data(3) function frees one or more data structures allocated and returned by several c-ares functions. Specifically the data returned by the following list of functions must be deallocated using this function.
ares_get_servers(3)

When used to free the data returned by ares_get_servers(3) this will free the whole linked list of ares_addr_node structures returned by ares_get_servers(3) .

ares_parse_srv_reply(3)

When used to free the data returned by ares_parse_srv_reply(3) this will free the whole linked list of ares_srv_reply structures returned by ares_parse_srv_reply(3) , along with any additional storage associated with those structures.

ares_parse_mx_reply(3)

When used to free the data returned by ares_parse_mx_reply(3) this will free the whole linked list of ares_mx_reply structures returned by ares_parse_mx_reply(3) , along with any additional storage associated with those structures.

ares_parse_txt_reply(3)

When used to free the data returned by ares_parse_txt_reply(3) this will free the whole linked list of ares_txt_reply structures returned by ares_parse_txt_reply(3) , along with any additional storage associated with those structures.

ares_parse_soa_reply(3)

When used to free the data returned by ares_parse_soa_reply(3) this will free the ares_soa_reply structure, along with any additional storage associated with those structure. ares_parse_uri_reply(3) When used to free the data returned by ares_parse_uri_reply(3) this will free list of ares_uri_reply structures, along with any additional storage associated with those structure.

RETURN VALUE

The ares_free_data(3) function does not return a value.

AVAILABILITY

This function was first introduced in c-ares version 1.7.0.

SEE ALSO

ares_get_servers (3), ares_parse_srv_reply (3), ares_parse_mx_reply (3), ares_parse_txt_reply (3), ares_parse_soa_reply (3)