1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information 6.\" Processing Systems. 7.\" 8.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 9.\" 10.\" @(#)abort.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/04/93 11.\" 12.Dd 13.Dt ABORT 3 14.Os 15.Sh NAME 16.Nm abort 17.Nd cause abnormal program termination 18.Sh SYNOPSIS 19.Fd #include <stdlib.h> 20.Ft void 21.Fn abort void 22.Sh DESCRIPTION 23The 24.Fn abort 25function causes abnormal program termination to occur, unless the 26signal 27.Dv SIGABRT 28is being caught and the signal handler does not return. 29.Pp 30No open streams are closed or flushed. 31.Sh RETURN VALUES 32The 33.Nm abort 34function 35never returns. 36.Sh SEE ALSO 37.Xr sigaction 2 , 38.Xr exit 2 39.Sh STANDARDS 40The 41.Fn abort 42function 43conforms to 44.St -ansiC . 45