How would you write a finally clause in C++?

[Per Bothner]

Erwin Bolwidt <ejb@klomp.org> writes:

> When you want to write a try {} finally {} clause in C++ in a CNI method,
> how would you do that?

The standard C++ idiom is to use a helper class with a finalizer.  I
don't know of anything more convenient.  Look at the implementation of
JvSynchronize for an example.
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