You can use a function try block on the destructor, additionally thanks to C++ metaprogramming capabilities, many of these handler classes can be written only once and reused across multiple scenarios.

Yes, unfortunely that compatibility is also the Achilles hill of C++, so many C++ libraries that are plain old C libraries with extern "C { .... } added in when using a C++ compiler, and also why so many CVEs keep happening in C++ code.