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  2. From: clamage@Eng.sun.com (Steve Clamage)
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  4. Subject: Re: Can terminate() return?
  5. Date: 23 Mar 1996 23:31:34 GMT
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  7. Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++)
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  15. boukanov@sentef1.fi.uib.no (Igor Boukanov) writes:
  16.  
  17. >   Is it supposed that terminate() function will never return? I did not find
  18. >in September DWP any words about this except 18.6.3.1:
  19. >"The implementation's default terminate_handler calls abort()."
  20. >But abort will never return...
  21.  
  22. Function terminate() is described as calling the current terminate-handler.
  23. The description of terminate-handlers says they do not return.
  24.  
  25. See [lib.terminate] and [lib.terminate.handler].
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  27. Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com
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