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.B #include <ares.h>
.PP
-.B const char *ares_strerror(int \fIcode\fP, char **\fImemptr\fP)
+.B const char *ares_strerror(int \fIcode\fP)
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B ares_strerror
function gets the description of the ares library error code
.IR code ,
-returning the result as a NUL-terminated C string. A pointer to
-allocated data necessary to compose the error description may be
-stored in the variable pointed to by
-.IR memptr .
-It is the caller's responsibility to invoke
-.BR ares_free_errmem (3)
-with the value of that variable when the error description is no
-longer needed.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR ares_free_errmem (3)
+returning the result as a NUL-terminated C string.
.SH AUTHOR
Greg Hudson, MIT Information Systems
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