From:	wemccaug AT prairienet DOT org (Wendy E. McCaughrin)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: exit() makes my program crash!!!! (FINAL comment)
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Date:	Sat, 16 Oct 1999 22:53:13 GMT
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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In a previous article, manni DOT heumann AT gmx DOT de (Manni Heumann) says:

>In article <19991016090802 DOT 4896 DOT rocketmail AT web115 DOT yahoomail DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com wrote:
>>
>>Hello everyone,
>>        how are u? fine?? good! :)
>>                
>>        well... regarding my previous problem (exit() causes
>>my prog to freeze..) here is the last comment!
>>
>>        i have discovered that the program does NOT freeze!
>>the program has actually finished! but screen did not
>>return to text mode!! i became sure of this, as, after
>>the program freezed, i just typed 'exit' and i simply
>>returned back to windows!
>>        This simply means that exit() does NOT always return
>>back to text mode by itself! i HAVE to put the
>>following line:
>>        screen.settext();
>>before ANY call to exit!!
>>
>>        is this considered a bug in exit()??? or this is
>>normal??
>>
 No, it is not a bug, but you might consider using atexit() to register
 a function that will restore text-mode (and perhaps other cleanups),
 without having to do so in your main().

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