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2024-12-19

2115. Order of implicit destruction vs release of automatic storage

Section: 8.7  [stmt.jump]     Status: drafting     Submitter: Richard Smith     Date: 2015-04-16

The relative ordering between destruction of automatic variables on exit from a block and the release of the variables' storage is not specified by the Standard: are all the destructors executed first and then the storage released, or are they interleaved?

Notes from the February, 2016 meeting:

CWG agreed that the storage should persist until all destructions are complete, although the “as-if” rule would allow for unobservable optimizations of this ordering.