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unwinding

What a panic does on the way out, dropping every frame's values.

Unwinding walks the call stack from the panicking function back to main, dropping each frame's live values before the thread ends.

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Examples

  • If main holds a value with a Drop impl when a panic happens, its drop code runs after the panic message, as the frame is unwound.

See also

panic drop backtrace
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