I have to "exit" the running program, in C I would call

#include <stdlib.h>
exit(0);

in Python:

sys.exit(0);


What's the correct way to do that in D?
My current implementation:

import core.runtime : Runtime;
import core.stdc.stdlib : exit;

Runtime.terminate();
exit(0);

But that doesn't seem correct.

That's what I do:

import std.c.stdlib;

void main(string[] args)
{
   if( args.length == 1 )
   {
      writeln("Some arguments, please!");
      exit(-1);
   }
}

On Sunday, 19 August 2012 at 23:48:01 UTC, Minas Mina wrote:
> That's what I do:
>
> import std.c.stdlib;
>
> void main(string[] args)
> {
>    if( args.length == 1 )
>    {
>       writeln("Some arguments, please!");
>       exit(-1);
>    }
> }

Sorry, forgot to import std.stdio.

I use the following:

import std.c.stdlib;
exit(0);

Am 20.08.2012 09:15, schrieb Tracey:
> I use the following:
>
> import std.c.stdlib;
> exit(0);
>

Yeah, but that doesn't terminate the runtime and will not call any dtors, right?

I don't know about the runtime, but destructors are not called (not sure about module destructors)

import std.stdio;
import std.c.stdlib;

void main()
{
	S s;
	
	exit(-1);
}

struct S
{
	~this()
	{
		writeln("destructor");
	}
}

This prints nothing, meaning that the destructor wasn't called.

But why do you want destructors to be called when you call exit()? You are exiting in an "abnormal" way anyway.

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:03:56 +0100, David <d@dav1d.de> wrote:

> Am 20.08.2012 09:15, schrieb Tracey:
>> I use the following:
>>
>> import std.c.stdlib;
>> exit(0);
>>
>
> Yeah, but that doesn't terminate the runtime and will not call any dtors, right?

std.c.stdlib.exit is the C runtime exit function which doesn't know anything about D's runtime, which is layered on top.  So, I would not expect any D runtime cleanup to occur.

You could define a custom ExitException and throw that, catching it at the top level and returning the error code stored inside it, from main().  Not ideal, but it would work.

R

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Regan Heath:

> You could define a custom ExitException and throw that, catching it at the top level and returning the error code stored inside it, from main().  Not ideal, but it would work.

Seems OK.
Another solution is to add a dexit() in Phobos :-)

Bye,
bearophile

On 2012-08-20 16:27, bearophile wrote:
> Regan Heath:
>
>> You could define a custom ExitException and throw that, catching it at
>> the top level and returning the error code stored inside it, from
>> main().  Not ideal, but it would work.
>
> Seems OK.
> Another solution is to add a dexit() in Phobos :-)

Or the D runtime could just use the "atexit" function defined in stdlib.h. Just add a callback which terminates the D runtime.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695299/functions/atexit.html

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

> But why do you want destructors to be called when you call exit()? You
> are exiting in an "abnormal" way anyway.

exit(0) is a normal termination, so destructors should be called. I wanna be nice and deallocate the allocated memory and unload dynamic libraries.