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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
 * redistributions in source form retain this entire copyright notice and
 * 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.
 * 
 * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
 * INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
 * AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
 * HENRY SPENCER BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
 * EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
 * PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS;
 * OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
 * WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
 * OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
 * ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 *
 *
 *
 * 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 "regguts.h"

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