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10 .Nd abnormal process termination
14 .Fn "noreturn void abort" "void"
18 causes abnormal process termination to occur.
23 will be raised, as if by
25 If the signal is not being caught, or the handler which catches the signal
28 will then proceed to cause the process to terminate with a failure exit status.
29 It is implementation defined whether any open
31 streams are flushed before the process exits.
33 .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
34 PDCLib implements termination (in the case that the
36 handler returns) by calling
37 .Fn _Exit EXIT_FAILURE .
38 Therefore, stream flushing rules for
40 follow those defined for