.TH PCRE2_SERIALIZE_FREE 3 "27 June 2018" "PCRE2 10.32" .SH NAME PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API) .SH SYNOPSIS .rs .sp .B #include .PP .nf .B void pcre2_serialize_free(uint8_t *\fIbytes\fP); .fi . .SH DESCRIPTION .rs .sp This function frees the memory that was obtained by \fBpcre2_serialize_encode()\fP 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. .P There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the .\" HREF \fBpcre2api\fP .\" page and a description of the serialization functions in the .\" HREF \fBpcre2serialize\fP .\" page.