On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 14:58:48 UTC, drathier wrote:
What's the proper way to exit with a specific exit code?
I found a bunch of old threads discussing this, making sure
destructors run and the runtime terminates properly, all of
which seemingly concluding that it's sad that there isn't a way
to do this easily, but hopefully things have changed in the
last 5-10 years and I'm just missing the obvious solution.
The only way is to return from main. The thing is that druntime
runs initialization before main and then returning from main it
runs all the tear down code including cleaning up the GC. This
means there is no equivalent of the exit function in the C
library. Calling exit from D means that there will be no cleanup
in D environment.
This is a bit limiting for my needs for example. I would like
that exiting from main will not tear down the D runtime because
my system is a message driven system and main just sets up the
program and then returns but the programs continues to react on
messages. Many libraries like Qt circumvents this just by parking
the main thread as a event handler but this doesn't fit my system
and will waste one thread resource. Finally to exit the program I
have equivalent to the C library exit function. Creating a
similar exit function in D would be trivial really.
