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Creating and destroying a memcached_st
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SYNOPSIS
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#include <libmemcached/memcached.h>

.. c:type:: memcached_st

.. c:function:: memcached_st* memcached_create(memcached_st *ptr)
 
.. c:function:: void memcached_free(memcached_st *ptr)
 
.. c:function:: memcached_st* memcached_clone(memcached_st *destination, memcached_st *source)
 
.. c:function:: void memcached_servers_reset(memcached_st)

Compile and link with -lmemcached


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DESCRIPTION
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:c:func:`memcached_create` is used to create a :c:type:`memcached_st` 
structure that will then be used by other libmemcached(3) functions to 
communicate with the server. You should either pass a statically declared 
:c:type:`memcached_st` to :c:func:`memcached_create` or
a NULL. If a NULL passed in then a structure is allocated for you.

Please note, when you write new application use 
:c:func:`memcached` over :c:func:`memcached_create`.

:c:func:`memcached_clone` is similar to :c:func:`memcached_create` but 
it copies the defaults and list of servers from the source 
:c:type:`memcached_st`. If you pass a null as the argument for the source 
to clone, it is the same as a call to :c:func:`memcached_create`.
If the destination argument is NULL a :c:type:`memcached_st` will be allocated 
for you.

:c:func:`memcached_servers_reset` allows you to zero out the list of 
servers that the :c:type:`memcached_st` has.

To clean up memory associated with a :c:type:`memcached_st` structure you 
should pass it to :c:func:`memcached_free` when you are finished using it. 
:c:func:`memcached_free` is the only way to make sure all memory is 
deallocated when you finish using the structure.

You may wish to avoid using memcached_create(3) or memcached_clone(3) with a
stack based allocation. The most common issues related to ABI safety involve
heap allocated structures.


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RETURN
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:c:func:`memcached_create` returns a pointer to the :c:type:`memcached_st` 
that was created (or initialized). On an allocation failure, it returns NULL.

:c:func:`memcached_clone` returns a pointer to the :c:type:`memcached_st` 
that was created (or initialized). On an allocation failure, it returns NULL.


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HOME
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To find out more information please check:
`http://libmemcached.org/ <http://libmemcached.org/>`_


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SEE ALSO
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:manpage:`memcached(1)` :manpage:`libmemcached(3)` :manpage:`memcached_strerror(3)`