From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: exit() makes my program crash!!!!!
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:46:59 -0500
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Mohamed Saad wrote:

>    1) a strange thing is happening! in a program of
> mine, i made an Exit button! when it is pressed, it
> simply calls... exit(1);
>    now... the problem is that when the button is
> pressed, my whole program freezes!! it does not
> respond to any thing! even ctrl-break does not work!
>    i tried to replace exit(1) with abort() and it
> exited with no problem (but i can't use it! because it
> outputs the stack contents and stuff!!)

Post the source code for the smallest complete program
that screws up like this. Then we can help you.
If you really want our help, you might want to look at
Read Me Third.
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/minifaq.txt

>    now what does exit(1) do to freeze the program??
>
>    (Note: I have not hooked any interrupts!! the
> program is runnin in 640*480*65k colors... in case
> this helps!)

Try setting the display mode back to text at the end of
the program. If you're using Allegro, try calling
allegro_exit() and then puts()


Damian Yerrick
http://come.to/yerrick