Aborting a Program (The GNU C Library) (original) (raw)

25.7.4 Aborting a Program

You can abort your program using the abort function. The prototype for this function is in stdlib.h.

Function: void abort (void) ¶

Preliminary: | MT-Safe | AS-Unsafe corrupt | AC-Unsafe lock corrupt | See POSIX Safety Concepts.

The abort function causes abnormal program termination. This does not execute cleanup functions registered with atexit oron_exit.

This function actually terminates the process by raising aSIGABRT signal, and your program can include a handler to intercept this signal; see Signal Handling.