NAME
abort —
cause abnormal program
termination
LIBRARY
library “libc”
SYNOPSIS
#include
<stdlib.h>
void
abort(void);
DESCRIPTION
The
abort()
function causes abnormal program termination to occur, unless the signal
SIGABRT is being caught and the signal handler does
not return.
Any open streams are flushed and closed.
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The abort() function is thread-safe. It is
unknown if it is async-cancel-safe.
The abort() function causes a report to be
generated by Crash Reporter. If you wish to terminate without generating a
crash report, use exit(3) instead.
RETURN VALUES
The abort() function never returns.
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
The abort() function conforms to
IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 (“POSIX.1”). The
abort() function also conforms to
ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (“ISO C99”)
with the implementation specific details as noted above.