<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/17/17 13:07, Emil Velikov wrote: </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CACvgo522=sWWs9SSfEJYCMDVCoD-69rWfum6-EjN6A3mLi4wsA@mail.gmail.com"> <pre wrap="">Having the opposite - a destructor [1] should provide symmetry and consistency. Furthermore using atexit is not as portable/reliable as one would think.</pre> </blockquote> It should be the destructor that handles this. Either the user clears it, or destructor clears it. <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CACvgo522=sWWs9SSfEJYCMDVCoD-69rWfum6-EjN6A3mLi4wsA@mail.gmail.com"> <pre wrap="">All this is obviously orthogonal to the original issue reported ;-) </pre> </blockquote> I don't see how it is orthogonal. There is actually <code class="cpp plain">__attribute__((destructor)) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://phoxis.org/2011/04/27/c-language-constructors-and-destructors-with-gcc">https://phoxis.org/2011/04/27/c-language-constructors-and-destructors-with-gcc</a> It works with gcc and clang, and probably with most or all other compilers. </code> Yuri </body> </html>