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Re:Defer Available in GCC and Clang by uecker on Friday February 20, 2026 @04:08AM (#47085519)
It is not clear to me that defer helps here. The issue is management of state (the return value) not control flow.
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Re:Defer Available in GCC and Clang by dapperdrake on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:36PM (#47093565)
The return value depends on control flow ("obvious", please bear with me):

With "goto" the cleanup-up can jump anywhere. With "defer" the cleanup cannot really jump anywhere. It is easier to mentally stick to simply cleaning up in a common sense way. And taking care of multiple "unrelated" clean-up steps is "handled for you."

(Attacks on this sometimes approach complaints about lack of "common sense".)

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