On 5/10/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:54:45AM -0400, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: > >Yes, the output does appear when I call exit instead of returning > >from main(). Unfortunately, that's not an option. For one thing, > >this is shared code that works just fine on other systems (and > >under Cygwin until I updated last Friday). For another, the > >semantics of calling exit in main() are not exactly the same as > >returning from main() -- local automatic objects in main() are not > >destroyed by the exit() call, which is something some of this > >code that is now failing relies on. > > I was trying to figure out the problem, not suggest that you should > change all of your code.
Sorry, my misunderstanding. > Previous to 1.5.16, static destructors were always called via a > gcc "atexit" mechanism. This meant that there were scenarios where > destructors would not be called at all so I made cygwin's exit call > the destructors explicitly. I just forgot to make cygwin do the right > thing when returning from main rather than exiting. This will be > fixed in the next snapshot. Great! Thanks very much. -- William M. (Mike) Miller | Edison Design Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
