Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 09:25:51 -0400
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id: <199609291325.JAA18970@delorie.com>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960929100249.20703G-100000@is> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 29 Sep 1996 10:10:52 +0200 (IST))
Subject: Re: `abort' in nested programs


> I'm not sure about the best way to solve this.  Would a call to 
> `__djgpp_exception_toggle' inside `abort' be OK?  It would be nice to 
> call it inside `_exit', but that won't work since `exit' calls `_exit'.  
> Is there a way to detect whether exceptions point to the handlers inside 
> surrently executing program?

Thinks that *must* be cleaned up on program exit must be called in
_exit(), and *not* exit().  I think that call should be moved, not
copied, to _exit.

Note that I've seen user C++ programs call _exit directly to avoid
static object destructors.