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title: "Additional Termination Considerations"
ms.date: "11/04/2016"
helpviewer_keywords: ["quitting applications", "exiting applications", "programs [C++], terminating"]
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# Additional Termination Considerations

You can terminate a C++ program by using `exit`, **return**, or `abort`. You can add exit processing using the `atexit` function. These are discussed in the following sections.

## See also

[Startup and Termination](../cpp/startup-and-termination-cpp.md)