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+/* Frees the dynamically allocated storage from an earlier call to glob.
+   Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+   The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+   Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+   <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#ifndef _LIBC
+# include <config.h>
+#endif
+
+#include <glob.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+/* Free storage allocated in PGLOB by a previous `glob' call.  */
+void
+globfree (glob_t *pglob)
+{
+  if (pglob->gl_pathv != NULL)
+    {
+      size_t i;
+      for (i = 0; i < pglob->gl_pathc; ++i)
+        free (pglob->gl_pathv[pglob->gl_offs + i]);
+      free (pglob->gl_pathv);
+      pglob->gl_pathv = NULL;
+    }
+}
+#ifndef globfree
+libc_hidden_def (globfree)
+#endif