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Do not build support for async operations.
+### no-atexit
+
+Do not use `atexit()` in libcrypto builds.
+
+`atexit()` has varied semantics between platforms and can cause SIGSEGV in some
+circumstances. This options disables the atexit registration of OPENSSL_cleanup.
+
### no-autoalginit
Don't automatically load all supported ciphers and digests.