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Thanks! In fact, the standard reflects what is happening in the field. So, use `defer` where this is already possible and ping your compiler vendor for those that do not have it ye…

That may be true in your bubble, but I don't think this is true in general. There are still a lot C compilers out there, compared to 3 or 4 that do C++.

Randomly introduced translation errors from markdown to wordpress-internal should be fixed, now. Sorry for the incovenience!

The problem is that wordpress changes these things once you edit in some part. I will probably regenerate the whole.

Thanks for the pointer! Definitively, on the long run these things should go into compilers directly, yes. BTW, the break continue stuff now works in the development branch. I noti…

This would be much more restrictive that what is proposed, because usually you would add `defer` statements as you go in a block, when you allocate more resources for example. Also…

That's not very practical if you have several operations to perform, you'd have to create a specialized function each time. So no, that extension is not an alternative to designing…

Yes, the visibility rules for variables remain exactly the same. The dependent statement of a defer lives in the same scope as the defer is placed.

Yes, `nullptr` will also be in C23.

Only that here we are talking about C. But yes, most C compilers already seem to have this as builtins.

Besides C not having exceptions (that you could catch), the point was and is to have a way such that such a call has defined behaviour under any circumstances. The return value of …

Unfortunately there are several error conventions in the C standard. Here, the committee just standardized existing practice, namely the gcc builtins. We just adjusted the call seq…

In the current proposal, the whole function body can act as a guarded block. So for simple cleanup strategies that are bound to functions, you wouldn't need this.

No, actually none of that. That code has a constraint violation: it uses the variable i outside of its scope. Even if i would be declared on the same level as the guard, this seque…

That is effectively one of the options that is under discussion. One of the advantage of the approach with defer is really that everything happens in the open and all uses that one…

IIRC in C++ this is only so if there is a try/catch underneath.

In the contrary, I find it really weird to bind all cleanup code to some kind of object with constructors and destructors. People seem to have gotten so used to this ... I think th…

Just use the reference implementation that is linked in the post. We would much appreciate feedback from users at this point.