21 Language support library [language.support]

Effects: This function has the semantics specified in the C standard library.

Remarks: The program is terminated without executing destructors for objects of automatic, thread, or static storage duration and without calling functions passed to atexit() ([basic.start.term]). The function _­Exit is signal-safe ([csignal.syn]).

Effects: This function has the semantics specified in the C standard library.

Remarks: The program is terminated without executing destructors for objects of automatic, thread, or static storage duration and without calling functions passed to atexit() ([basic.start.term]). The function abort is signal-safe ([csignal.syn]).

Effects: The atexit() functions register the function pointed to by f to be called without arguments at normal program termination. It is unspecified whether a call to atexit() that does not happen before a call to exit() will succeed. [ Note: The atexit() functions do not introduce a data race ([res.on.data.races]).  — end note ]

Implementation limits: The implementation shall support the registration of at least 32 functions.

Returns: The atexit() function returns zero if the registration succeeds, nonzero if it fails.

Effects:

• (9.1)

  First, objects with thread storage duration and associated with the current thread are destroyed. Next, objects with static storage duration are destroyed and functions registered by calling atexit are called.215 See [basic.start.term] for the order of destructions and calls. (Automatic objects are not destroyed as a result of calling exit().)216

  If control leaves a registered function called by exit because the function does not provide a handler for a thrown exception, std​::​terminate() shall be called ([except.terminate]).

• (9.2)

  Next, all open C streams (as mediated by the function signatures declared in <cstdio>) with unwritten buffered data are flushed, all open C streams are closed, and all files created by calling tmpfile() are removed.

• (9.3)

  Finally, control is returned to the host environment. If status is zero or EXIT_­SUCCESS, an implementation-defined form of the status successful termination is returned. If status is EXIT_­FAILURE, an implementation-defined form of the status unsuccessful termination is returned. Otherwise the status returned is implementation-defined.217

Effects: The at_­quick_­exit() functions register the function pointed to by f to be called without arguments when quick_­exit is called. It is unspecified whether a call to at_­quick_­exit() that does not happen before all calls to quick_­exit will succeed. [ Note: The at_­quick_­exit() functions do not introduce a data race ([res.on.data.races]).  — end note ] [ Note: The order of registration may be indeterminate if at_­quick_­exit was called from more than one thread.  — end note ] [ Note: The at_­quick_­exit registrations are distinct from the atexit registrations, and applications may need to call both registration functions with the same argument.  — end note ]

Implementation limits: The implementation shall support the registration of at least 32 functions.

Returns: Zero if the registration succeeds, nonzero if it fails.

Effects: Functions registered by calls to at_­quick_­exit are called in the reverse order of their registration, except that a function shall be called after any previously registered functions that had already been called at the time it was registered. Objects shall not be destroyed as a result of calling quick_­exit. If control leaves a registered function called by quick_­exit because the function does not provide a handler for a thrown exception, std​::​terminate() shall be called. [ Note: A function registered via at_­quick_­exit is invoked by the thread that calls quick_­exit, which can be a different thread than the one that registered it, so registered functions should not rely on the identity of objects with thread storage duration.  — end note ] After calling registered functions, quick_­exit shall call _­Exit(status). [ Note: The standard file buffers are not flushed.  — end note ]

Remarks: The function quick_­exit is signal-safe ([csignal.syn]) when the functions registered with at_­quick_­exit are.