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From: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C/C++ question about dynamic "static struct"
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:41:35 +1300
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On 10/22/12 07:31, Les Cargill wrote:
> Ian Collins wrote:
>> On 10/21/12 20:11, Les Cargill wrote:
>>> Ian Collins wrote:
>>>>
>>>> C simply can't do RAII,
>>>
>>> Not in the specific manner Stoustrup used it, but it's
>>> perfectly easy to achieve the same goal.
>>
>> I'm sorry, but it isn't. RAII is one C++ feature that C can't do.
>>
>
> I respectfully submit that you haven't thought
> that though. I won't bore you with the sea stories...
> but it's been done...

I certainly have thought it through.  Please provide an example of RAII 
in C.

-- 
Ian Collins