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> At 12:03 PM 5/31/97 -0800, Steve Howe wrote:
[.....]
> Who says you always have to use exit()?
> 
> In fact, I've observed C++ code that never calls the destructors if you
> exit() of out a program.
[.....]

Yep, it at least won't call the destructors for the main() stack
vars, no matter how smart the compiler is.

> --
> XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci.     -   House of Retrocomputing
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> 

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