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RE: Win32lib: ExitProcess

• Posted by Derek Parnell <Derek.Parnell at SYD.RABOBANK.COM> Jul 15, 2002
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Done. I will suggest that if somebody really, really wants to run
ExitProcess, that they do it in their App after WinMain() returns.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Craig [mailto:rds at RapidEuphoria.com]
> Subject: Re: Win32lib: ExitProcess
> 
> 
> 
> Don Phillips writes:
> > Hey Derek.  I am almost sure that this call is not really needed.
> > Mostly it just unloads the linked DLLs and frees some 
> Windows management
> > memory.  However, since it is technically Euphoria that is doing the
> > loading of all these objects, I think these things will be 
> cleared up
> > automatically anyways as soon as Euphoria itself 
> terminates... ( I think).
> 
> Someone pointed out to me (Euman? Derek?) a long time ago
> that a small amount of space reserved for loaded .dll's was 
> not being freed
> when Euphoria for Windows terminated.
> 
> ExitProcess() frees these .dlls, so I started to use it in my 
> local version
> of exw.exe. I discovered however (before releasing 2.3) that although
> ExitProcesss unloads the .dlls, it *doesn't* flush regular files
> that were written-to but never closed or flushed by the 
> Euphoria program.
> This is something that the normal C exit() *does* do, and I'd like
> Euphoria users to be able to count on it. So I went back to 
> using exit(),
> but I now keep track of all the loaded .dll's and I free them
> with FreeLibrary() at the end - see Cleanup() in runtime.c
> in the Euphoria source. Cleanup also outputs the profiling 
> information,
> displays warning messages, and a few other minor things.
> 
> So I think it's better that Win32Lib not call ExitProcess(),
> but if there's any other cleanup that we are now going to miss,
> I'd like to know about it.
> 
> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
> 
> 
> 
> 

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