Terminate without return in Main()

is there a way to Terminate either a console app or a Win32 app before you hit your return statement in the main() or WinMain()??

like in VB it was End, kills the thread at any time......
or was it Exit in vb...its been awhile damnit..i'm pretty sure it was end.

the best way is to end from main. Pass the request up via return values or something. I strongly recommend this course of action; it makes sure that everything that was created gets destroyed.

However, there is also ExitProcess.

Look into the TerminateProcess API

Another option is to throw an exception, and catch it at the level of the main function. This will ensure proper destruction of objects.

Another way would be to encapsulate your entire program into a while loop. Even if it doesn't need to loop at all, putting in a simple break statement will break it from the loop and the program will close.

Much more standard way of doing things. There is also exit() in the C library.

Using break in a loop is a no no as far as structured programming practices go.

Well I worked around the problem as it seemed no simple solution was at hand.

As for not being able to capture a program error...

I have used alot of c, but I have yet to read up on throw and catch.
So I shall.

Thanks guys.