I was just wondering how exit worked? Does it use some lower-level language feature in its implementation? Is it compiler-specific? What is it? (I am talking about the function in stdlib.h btw)
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Jump to PostWhen you run a program, it creates a process for that program. So when you call exit within that process, the os kills that process and cleans up memory. As for its actual implementation, I do not know. It is most likely implementation specific, that is I don't think there …
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