Re: RFC: glocal - automatically freeing memory when it goes out of scope

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup canonical com>]

On 04/04/2012 05:35 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 21:05 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been looking at gcc's "cleanup" attribute[1] that allows one to
> > specify a callback that will be invoked when a variable goes out of
> > scope. This allows one to play with automatically freeing resources.
>
> So this is frankly pretty cool - but we can't make GLib/GTK+
> dependent on GNU C.

Totally agreed. (although cursory research seems to indicate this will 
work on clang as well, I realize glib is used with many other compilers)

> I could imagine using this in some gcc/Linux-specific parts of GNOME
> though; care to polish up the header, and we could put it somewhere it
> can be shared/reused (not sure where...libegg?)

Sure, I have some updates lying around I want to apply as well (fx. 
Go-style deferred method calls), then I repost an updated version.

Cheers,
Mikkel