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[except.terminate] Better describe the function terminate #7281

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\pnum
\indextext{\idxcode{terminate}}%
% FIXME: What does it mean to abandon exception handling?
In some situations, exception handling is abandoned
for less subtle error handling techniques.
Some errors in a program cannot be recovered from, such as when an exception
is not handled or a \tcode{std::thread} object is destroyed while its thread
function is still executing. In such cases,
the function \tcode{std::terminate}\iref{exception.terminate} is invoked.
\begin{note}
These situations are:
\indextext{\idxcode{terminate}!called}%
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\pnum
\indextext{\idxcode{terminate}}%
In such cases,
the function \tcode{std::terminate} is invoked\iref{exception.terminate}.
In the situation where no matching handler is found, it is
\impldef{stack unwinding before invocation of \tcode{std::terminate}}
whether or not the stack is unwound
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