From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: exit() makes my program crash!!!!!
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:16:08 -0500
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Tom Morton <tmorton AT yikesstation DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
>
> Mohamed Saad <bazramit AT yahoo DOT com> 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!
>8
> >    (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*

It's anything from exit(0) to exit(255) depending on what
you want the DOS ERRORLEVEL to be set to after your
program exits.


Damian Yerrick
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