boxaDestroyboxa

boxaDestroyboxa is not a widely documented standard function in major image-processing libraries. It does not appear as an official API name in common repositories. In practice, the identifier may reflect a codebase-specific wrapper, a macro, or simply a misspelling of related functions such as boxaDestroy or boxaDestroyBoxa. For those studying Leptonica-like data structures, BOXA refers to a dynamically managed array of bounding boxes used in OCR and image analysis.

In Leptonica, a BOXA structure holds coordinates of multiple boxes. The typical destructor is boxaDestroy, which frees the memory allocated for the BOXA and sets the pointer to NULL. A function named something like "boxaDestroyboxa" would theoretically perform the same task, possibly with a different naming convention or additional behavior in a wrapper.

Signature and behavior (typical): void boxaDestroy(BOXA **pboxa); It accepts the address of a BOXA pointer, frees internal boxes and the BOXA object, and then sets *pboxa to NULL. It is safe to call with NULL pointers in Leptonica-style implementations.

Usage notes: Call boxaDestroy when the BOXA is no longer needed; after destruction, avoid dereferencing the original pointer, which should now be NULL. If a project uses a function named boxaDestroyboxa, consult the local codebase or documentation to confirm its exact signature and side effects.

See also: BOXA, boxaCreate, boxaDestroy, and other memory-management utilities in Leptonica.