Re: Can terminate() return?

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From: Steve Clamage
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 23:31

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boukanov@sentef1.fi.uib.no (Igor Boukanov) writes:

>   Is it supposed that terminate() function will never return? I did not find
>in September DWP any words about this except 18.6.3.1:
>"The implementation's default terminate_handler calls abort()."
>But abort will never return...

Function terminate() is described as calling the current terminate-handler.
The description of terminate-handlers says they do not return.

See [lib.terminate] and [lib.terminate.handler].
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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com


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