[Freeglut-cvs] SF.net SVN: freeglut:[973] trunk/freeglut/freeglut/src/freeglut_init.c

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Revision: 973
          http://freeglut.svn.sourceforge.net/freeglut/?rev=973&view=rev
Author:   fayjf
Date:     2012-01-09 04:35:20 +0000 (Mon, 09 Jan 2012)
Log Message:
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Adding further comments to the removal of the "atexit" call from the Windows build, per e-mail from Diederick Niehorster dated 1/8/12 at 10:06 PM.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/freeglut/freeglut/src/freeglut_init.c

Modified: trunk/freeglut/freeglut/src/freeglut_init.c
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--- trunk/freeglut/freeglut/src/freeglut_init.c	2012-01-08 19:25:33 UTC (rev 972)
+++ trunk/freeglut/freeglut/src/freeglut_init.c	2012-01-09 04:35:20 UTC (rev 973)
@@ -392,7 +392,10 @@
     fgState.Initialised = GL_TRUE;
 
     /* Avoid registering atexit callback on Win32 as it results in an access
-     * violation due to calling into a module which has been unloaded. */
+     * violation due to calling into a module which has been unloaded.
+     * Any cleanup isn't needed on Windows anyway, the OS takes care of it.c
+     * see: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/01/05/10253268.aspx
+     */
 #if ( TARGET_HOST_MS_WINDOWS == 0 )
     atexit(fgDeinitialize);
 #endif

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