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> sometimes that’s actually what you meant — you’re calling it only for its side effect. Back in 2022, Stephan T. Lavavej estimated of unique_ptr::release that

• quuxplusone 10mo ago
  Here's a made-up example, not from any particular codebase: try { f(p.get()); (void)p.release(); } catch (...) { /* f threw; don't release p after all */ }