From: "Tom Morton" <tmorton AT yikesstation DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: exit() makes my program crash!!!!!
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:47:09 +0100
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Mohamed Saad <bazramit AT yahoo DOT com> wrote in message
news:19991012134544 DOT 29339 DOT rocketmail AT web107 DOT yahoomail DOT com...
>
> Hello everyone,
>    how are you? hope every thing is allright!

Everything is EXCELLENT <cracks knuckles>
Heh heh heh!

>    well... here are some small questions!
>
>    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!!)
>
>    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!)
>
>  Please help me! I am so desperate!!!

Try this:

allegro_exit();
printf("Thanks for playing Foobar III, weak minded human!\n");
exit(0);

I'm not sure if it makes any difference whether exit is
exit(0) or exit(1) but it works. *shrug*


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