[cfe-dev] cleanup attribute for variables

Alex Regueiro alexreg at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 09:27:23 PDT 2015


GNU (gcc) has the variable attribute 'cleanup' (`__attribute__ ((cleanup(f))`) for freeing memory and cleaning up when a variable goes out of scope. It’s extremely useful, as it enables the use of smart pointers (e.g. http://snaipe.me/c/c-smart-pointers/) and other forms of automatic memory management.

Any chance this could be implemented in clang?



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