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		zomgbbq on Jan 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dirty Coding Tricks We once had a game demo that was crashing every time we tried to exit the game. Inserted an exit(0); in the shutdown code and it never crashed again.

dbrower on Jan 9, 2015 [–]

+1. That should always work as an exmaple of "crash only" programming. It's nice to get shutdown working for valgrind, but it should never be necessary.

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