intermixing c++ exception handling and SEH (windows)

Question

I have a function in which I call getaddrinfo() to get an sockaddr* which targets memory is allocated by the system. As many may know, you need to call

Answer 1

You could wrap the addrinfo in a class that calls getaddrinfo in the constructor and freeaddrinfo in its destructor.

That way it will always be freed, whether there is an exception thrown or not.