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You can do this with GCC/CLang via the cleanup attribute: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/

You can do this with GCC/CLang via the cleanup attribute: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attribute... It would be nice to have this be a part of the standard.

jws 8y ago
It's very useful. I use it for scoping the holding of locks. It replaces the idiom where you make a separate function to hold the 'when locked' code and pass all required state back and forth with nice clean inline blocks of code.