.TH PCRE2_COMPILE_CONTEXT_CREATE 3 "22 October 2014" "PCRE2 10.00"
.SH NAME
PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <pcre2.h>
.PP
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.B pcre2_compile_context *pcre2_compile_context_create(
.B "  pcre2_general_context *\fIgcontext\fP);"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This function creates and initializes a new compile context. If its argument is
NULL, \fBmalloc()\fP is used to get the necessary memory; otherwise the memory
allocation function within the general context is used. The result is NULL if
the memory could not be obtained.
.P
There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the
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\fBpcre2api\fP
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page and a description of the POSIX API in the
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\fBpcre2posix\fP
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page.