abort, terminate or exit?

Question

What\'s the difference between those three, and how shall I end program in case of exception which I can\'t handle properly?

Answer 1

• terminate leaves you the possibility to register what will happen when it is called. Should be one of the other two.
• exit is a normal exit allowing to specify an exit status. Handlers registered by at_exit() are run
• abort is an abnormal exit. The only thing which is ran is the signal handler for SIGABRT.