Free resources in the reverse order of allocation

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This is an automatic cherry-pick of 8310d751864686c0636cbff312e5cc25f713621e

The original PR was #237 with message:

When resources are freed in the reverse order as they are allocated, it simplifies when you want to disable parts of the code when hunting for memory leaks and undefined behavior.

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