jerryscript/docs/11.EXT-REFERENCE-AUTORELEASE.md

Autorelease values

JERRYX_AR_VALUE_T

Summary

Macro for const jerry_value_t for which jerry_release_value() is automatically called when the variable goes out of scope.

Note: The macro depends on compiler support. For GCC and LLVM/clang, the macro is implemented using the __cleanup__ variable attribute. For other compilers, no support has been added yet.

Example

#include "jerryscript.h"
#include "jerryscript-ext/autorelease.h"

static void foo (bool enable)
{
  JERRYX_AR_VALUE_T bar = jerry_create_string (...);

  if (enable)
  {
    JERRYX_AR_VALUE_T baz = jerry_get_global_object ();

    ...

    /*
     * jerry_release_value (baz) and jerry_release_value (bar) is called automatically before
     * returning, because `baz` and `bar` go out of scope.
     */
    return;
  }

  /*
   * jerry_release_value (bar) is called automatically when the function returns,
   * because `bar` goes out of scope.
   */
}

See also

• jerry_value_t
• jerry_acquire_value
• jerry_release_value