About the exit() function in C++

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Giku Promitt picture Giku Promitt · Mar 24, 2009 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

The getche() function doesn't terminate the program properly, so I want to try exit(int status) function. How does it work in Turbo C++ programming language? I cannot understand the explanation in related help modules and I seek for a better explanation... E.g. what does function's parameter consist of? Thanks in advance!

Answer

DaedalusFall picture DaedalusFall · Mar 24, 2009

Not 100% sure what you mean by this. The parameter to the exit function (the "int status") is a number that gets returned to the shell. Traditionally, this is zero if your program was successful and >0 if the program failed for some reason. The function will clean up various things and then exit your program.

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