1) 2018 2) I recently discovered the implementation of free_on_exit won't work if called directly from main if gcc aligns the stack. In this case, main adds pa

1) 2018 2) I recently discovered the implementation of free_on_exit won't work if called directly from main if gcc aligns the stack. In this case, main adds padding between the saved eip and the saved ebp, (example). I think this can be fixed some tweaking, and will update this article when it is fixed. I do not believe the article was updated, suggesting that the "tweaking" was far more complex than the author expected... ...which doesn't surprise me, because the overall tone is one of a clever but far-less-experienced-than-they-think programmer having what they think is a flash of insight and realizing thereby they can solve simply a problem that has plagued the industry and community for decades.