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freeing resourcesfreeing resourcesPosted Feb 11, 2008 3:26 UTC (Mon) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)In reply to: It's not a mistake to ban goto... it's not a mistake to keep it... by filipjoelsson Parent article: Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News) Are you looking for RAII? I use it quite often for things like mutexes, but it can be used in many other situations - any time you hold a resource in a function that must be cleaned up when the function exits, including when throwing an exception. It's a fairly common design pattern for C++ these days - I think I started seeing it a year or two ago...
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freeing resources Posted Feb 11, 2008 8:19 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] In C++ it's probably two decades old: I know it was landing in published textbooks ten years ago. I didn't see it in C outside the Linux kernel before about 2004.
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