# dtor

`ctor` [](https://docs.rs/ctor)
[](https://crates.io/crates/ctor)
`dtor` [](https://docs.rs/dtor)
[](https://crates.io/crates/dtor)
Module teardown functions for Rust (like `__attribute__((destructor))` in C/C++)
for Linux, OSX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Illumos, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Android, iOS,
WASM, and Windows.
# Examples
Print a message at shutdown time. Note that Rust may have shut down
some stdlib services at this time.
```rust,ignore
#[dtor]
unsafe fn shutdown() {
// Using println or eprintln here will panic as Rust has shut down
libc::printf("Shutting down!\n\0".as_ptr() as *const i8);
}
```
# Under the Hood
The `#[dtor]` macro effectively creates a constructor that calls `libc::atexit`
with the provided function, ie roughly equivalent to:
```rust,ignore
#[ctor]
fn dtor_atexit() {
libc::atexit(dtor);
}
```