NAME

abort − generate a fault

DESCRIPTION

Abort executes an instruction which is illegal in user mode.  This causes a signal that normally terminates the process with a core dump, which may be used for debugging. 

SEE ALSO

adb(1S), signal(3), exit(2)

DIAGNOSTICS

Usually ‘IOT trap − core dumped’ from the shell. 

BUGS

The abort function does not flush standard I/O buffers.  Use fflush as described in fclose(3S).

Sun System Release 1.0  —  26 August 1983