Does ScopeGuard use really lead to better code?

Question

I came across this article written by Andrei Alexandrescu and Petru Marginean many years ago, which presents and discusses a utility class called ScopeGuard for writing exce

Answer 1

I often use it for guarding memory usage, things that need to be freed that were returned from the OS. For example:

DATA_BLOB blobIn, blobOut;
blobIn.pbData=const_cast(data);
blobIn.cbData=length;

CryptUnprotectData(&blobIn, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, CRYPTPROTECT_UI_FORBIDDEN, &blobOut);
Guard guardBlob=guardFn(::LocalFree, blobOut.pbData);
// do stuff with blobOut.pbData