This is totally awesome - thank you mystor!

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Michael Layzell <mich...@thelayzells.com>
wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> Bug 1201190 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1201190) just
> landed on inbound, which means that we now have access to the new
> annotation MOZ_RAII. This is a static-analysis annotation, intended to be
> placed on RAII guards. It will cause the static analysis to cause
> compilation to fail if the class is allocated anywhere other than in an
> automatic variable - this includes temporaries, unlike MOZ_STACK_CLASS,
> which also allows allocating the type in a temporary.
>
> This new analysis fills the role of the much more verbose MOZ_GUARD_OBJECT
> annotations, which perform runtime analysis to prevent temporary
> allocations. Unfortunately, as we currently only run static analysis on
> Linux and Mac OS X, you should still use MOZ_GUARD_OBJECT (In addition to
> MOZ_RAII - which is more likely to catch errors, as it checks at build time
> and is more thorough) if the class might be used from windows-specific
> code.
>
> To mark a class as MOZ_RAII, simply `#include "mfbt/Attributes.h"`, and
> then change the class declaration to `class MOZ_RAII FooGuard`.
>
> If you're adding any new RAII guards, please use MOZ_RAII! Thanks :D
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