Terminating an application

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
news:fc9oc2$2dsc$1 at digitalmars.com...

> exit() is defined in std.c.stdlib.  Selective import is good to avoid 
> polluting your namespace with all the other cruft in stdlib:

Sadly, exit() will not unwind the stack, calling scope blocks and destroying 
scope instances.  It also will not call any of the runtime cleanup functions 
(calling module dtors, closing the GC, anything else the RT wants to do) 
without explicitly telling it to with atexit().  So, it's not a very robust 
situation for the general case.  I'd be _very_ interested how one could 
solve this without throwing an exception that you catch in main.  Perhaps 
it's another runtime function that is necessary, one that'll unwind the 
stack but without an exception.