[m-dev.] diff: use exit() in place of abort() for uncaught exceptions

[Fergus Henderson]

On 24-Jul-2000, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> exception.m:
>     MSVC prints "abnormal program termination" when abort() is
>     called.  This causes a lot of test cases to fail.  Instead call
>     exit(EXIT_FAILURE).

On Unix systems, abort() causes a core dump
(unless you set the core size limit to zero).

So this change will change the behaviour on Unix systems.

However, I suppose the core dump is probably not very useful,
so this change is OK.

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