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jandrewrogers on April 3, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14

It has fewer use cases in C++ but it still has use cases where the alternatives are worse.

xedrac on April 4, 2024 [–]

What is a C++ use case where RAII doesn't solve the problem better? I imagine one exists, but I've never encountered it in 20 years. Conversely, I've seen it used inappropriately for cleanup many times (which would be fine in C).

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