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		RhysU on March 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C for All I have often wanted c99 with destructors for RAII purposes.

enriquto on March 24, 2018 [–]

you do not need destructors if you put your stuff on the stack

jcelerier on March 24, 2018 | [–]

just putting stuff on the stack in C won't magically call `fclose` or `pthread_mutex_unlock`, unlike destructors

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