Terminating an application

[Sean Kelly]

Mike Parker wrote:
> llee wrote:
>> Is it possible to terminate an application after catching an 
>> exception|error? I know how that assert will automatically terminate 
>> an application after catching an AssertError. Is there a general 
>> method for terminating an application outside of main(). Perhaps, 
>> something like exit() under linux? 
> 
> If you rethrow the exception, or throw a new one, and let it propagate 
> up the app will exit.

Assuming the exception is thrown from the main thread.  And assuming 
you're either using Phobos or are using Tango and have no non-daemon 
threads running.  So far, the best alternative I've come up with is to 
register the routines you'd normally call manually when exiting a DLL 
with atexit, and then call the C exit routine.  I've been considering 
doing basically this in a repackaged Runtime.exit(int) routine in Tango.


Sean