+/*
+ * 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.
+ */