Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!netcomsv!sjsumcs!horstman
From: horstman@mathcs.sjsu.edu (Cay Horstmann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: How do I call destructors on ^C in TC++?
Message-ID: <1991May28.225141.1451@mathcs.sjsu.edu>
Date: 28 May 91 22:51:41 GMT
References: <1991May24.045847.24401@colorado.edu> <1991May27.024810.2300@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
Lines: 18

In article <1991May27.024810.2300@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s892992@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Kendall Bennett) writes:
>scholes@spot.Colorado.EDU (Genuine Bud Man) writes:
>
>>  Please excuse me if this is a FAQ, or if I am missing something
>>painfully obvious, but destructors don't seem to be called when
>>the user hits ^C in Turbo C++.
>
>   I am pretty sure that if you call the exit() standard library function it
>calls the destructors for any AUTO variables, that is any instances that have
>been allocated on the stack. If the class instance was allocted in the heap,
>then it is up to the program to delete it - so I don't know how you would
>handle this one.
>
Fat chance. No such thing will happen. When you call exit(), the stack
just gets popped, the free store given back wholesale. I am not sure whether
STATIC destructors are run. Someone here surely knows the answer. 

Cay