ExitProcess and exit()

[derek7]

what is different ?

[Stephen Hewitt]

ExitProcess is part of the Win32 API - It's the low level function you call to exit a process. There is a more vicious version called TerminateProcess. exit is a CRT (C Runtime Library) function; every C/C++ compiler will have this function. On Windows it will be implemented in terms on ExitProcess but it will do some "house work" before hand. For example using the CRT function atexit you can register a function to be called when the process exits - If you use ExitProcess you will short-circuit the CRT code which calls them. My advice would be that if you're not sure of the difference play it safe and use exit. Steve