In my last post, I talked about resource management, and how RAII, Resource Acquisition is Initialization, is important in C++ because of the guarantees it provides. In this post, I’ll show how we can make the same guarantees in C. In C++, RAII provides a solution to resource management and the issues arising with exceptions.…
RAII, or Resource Acquisition is Initialization, is a programming idiom that originally came out of the C++ community. However, it’s a powerful approach that can be used in many languages, including old-fashioned C. In this blog post, I’ll introduce the RAII concept and examine the guarantees it provides in C++. A subsequent post will demonstrate…