CH> In a C program, is there any harm in calling DosExit 
 CH> directly instead of using exit()?  I know I shouldn't

The only problem I can think of is that exit() will fflush() all of your
open file streams,  and DosExit() won't.

Additionally (depending on how they were implemented in your
compiler),atexit/onexit functions may not be called.

If you have fclosed all of your file streams,  and you're not using
atexit(),  I would not worry about using DosExit().


However --- the fact that exit() is getting stuck may be a sign that there
is a bug in your program -- for example,  the heap is corrupted. Try
calling _heapchk [or whatever your compiler provides] just before the
exit() and see what it has to say.



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