GCC/Clang have an extension _cleanup_<foo>_ which allows function <foo> to be called on a variable when you leave scope. This is really handy for marking pointers such that their memory is guaranteed to be freed, eg.:
Is there an analagous feature in MSVC?
1 2 | #define _cleanup_free_ __attribute__((cleanup(freep)))
static inline void freep(void *p) { free(*(void **)p); }
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Is there an analagous feature in MSVC?
There's no way to do that in C with MSVC. Microsoft wants you to use C++ instead for this.
Edited by Mārtiņš Možeiko
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