How to exit a go program honoring deferred calls?

Question

I need to use defer to free allocations manually created using C library, but I also need to os.Exit with non 0 status at some point. The

Answer 1

For posterity, for me this was a more elegant solution:

func main() { 
    retcode := 0
    defer func() { os.Exit(retcode) }()
    defer defer1()
    defer defer2()

    [...]

    if err != nil {
        retcode = 1
        return
    }
}