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- From: tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya)
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- Subject: Re: atexit() and return from main()
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 15:40:25 GMT
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- In-reply-to: nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk's message of 18 Jan 1996 08:15:48 GMT
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- In article <4dkvjk$6q5@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick
- Maclaren) writes:
- <snip>
- But you are making a serious mistake in assuming that run-time systems
- can be implemented to allow everything that the standard permits by
- omission. They can't. In THIS case, they can usually preserve the
- stack before calling the atexit() functions.
-
- I think you are bringing up non-issues.
-
- However, for the advanced paper, think about the following problems:
-
- What is the effect of an atexit() function calling exit()? Does it
- restart the atexit() queue, carry on as if the function had returned
- or does it abandon the atexit() queue?
-
- I chose to do the second, as by far the most user-friendly, but I
- would NEVER write serious code that relied upon that action!
-
- main() calls setjmp() and then calls exit(). An atexit() function
- calls longjmp() and returns to main(). This repeats (or does it?)
-
- This is ALSO permitted by omission, but a good run-time system will
- trap it, issue an error message and stop without calling more atexit()
- functions.
-
- Neither of these is permitted in any sense that I understand!
- 7.10.4.3: If more than one call to the exit function is executed by
- a program, the behaviour is undefined. No `permission by omission'
- that I can see.
-
- Cheers
- Tanmoy
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