diff --git a/examples/simple-inference/simple-inference.cpp b/examples/simple-inference/simple-inference.cpp
index 835d05b61..c8c56ae34 100644
--- a/examples/simple-inference/simple-inference.cpp
+++ b/examples/simple-inference/simple-inference.cpp
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include "build-info.h"
 #include "grammar-parser.h"
 
+#include <atomic>
 #include <cassert>
 #include <cinttypes>
 #include <cmath>
@@ -38,12 +39,7 @@
 #pragma warning(disable: 4244 4267) // possible loss of data
 #endif
 
-static llama_context           ** g_ctx;
-static llama_model             ** g_model;
-static gpt_params               * g_params;
-static std::vector<llama_token> * g_input_tokens;
-static std::ostringstream       * g_output_ss;
-static std::vector<llama_token> * g_output_tokens;
+static std::atomic<bool> interrupted {false};
 
 void write_logfile(
     const llama_context * ctx, const gpt_params & params, const llama_model * model,
@@ -91,11 +87,7 @@ void write_logfile(
 #if defined (__unix__) || (defined (__APPLE__) && defined (__MACH__)) || defined (_WIN32)
 void sigint_handler(int signo) {
     if (signo == SIGINT) {
-        console::cleanup();
-        printf("\n");
-        llama_print_timings(*g_ctx);
-        write_logfile(*g_ctx, *g_params, *g_model, *g_input_tokens, g_output_ss->str(), *g_output_tokens);
-        _exit(130);
+        interrupted.store(true);
     }
 }
 #endif
@@ -173,9 +165,6 @@ bool initialize(llama_context **ctx_p, llama_model **model_p, gpt_params & param
     LOG("%s: llama backend init\n", __func__);
     llama_backend_init(params.numa);
 
-    g_model = model_p;
-    g_ctx = ctx_p;
-
     // load the model and apply lora adapter, if any
     LOG("%s: load the model and apply lora adapter, if any\n", __func__);
     std::tie(*model_p, *ctx_p) = llama_init_from_gpt_params(params);
@@ -275,7 +264,7 @@ bool initialize(llama_context **ctx_p, llama_model **model_p, gpt_params & param
 
 bool feed_prompt(llama_context *ctx, const gpt_params * params, llama_token * tokens, int tokens_len, int n_past) {
     console::set_display(console::prompt);
-    while (tokens_len > 0) {
+    while (tokens_len > 0 && interrupted.load() == false) {
         const int this_chunk_size = std::min(tokens_len, params->n_batch);
 
         if (llama_eval(ctx, tokens, this_chunk_size, n_past, params->n_threads)) {
@@ -302,7 +291,6 @@ bool feed_prompt(llama_context *ctx, const gpt_params * params, llama_token * to
 
 int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     gpt_params params;
-    g_params = &params;
 
     if (gpt_params_parse(argc, argv, params) == false) {
         return 1;
@@ -329,10 +317,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
     const int n_ctx   = llama_n_ctx(ctx);
     int n_remain      = params.n_predict;
-
-    std::vector<int>   input_tokens;  g_input_tokens  = &input_tokens;
-    std::vector<int>   output_tokens; g_output_tokens = &output_tokens;
-    std::ostringstream output_ss;     g_output_ss     = &output_ss;
+    std::vector<int>   input_tokens;
 
     {
         LOG("warming up the model with an empty run\n");
@@ -356,23 +341,10 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     std::vector<llama_token_data> candidates;
     candidates.reserve(llama_n_vocab(ctx));
 
-    // Required to match output from main example with a specific seed - but why?
-    if (false) {
-        llama_token id = llama_sample_token(ctx, NULL, grammar, params, last_tokens, candidates);
-        if (llama_eval(ctx, &id, 1, last_tokens.size(), params.n_threads)) {
-            LOG_TEE("%s : failed to eval\n", __func__);
-            return 1;
-        }
-        const std::string token_str = llama_token_to_piece(ctx, id);
-        fputs(token_str.c_str(), stdout);
-        fflush(stdout);
-    }
-
-    while (n_remain > 0) {
+    while (n_remain > 0 && interrupted.load() == false) {
         const llama_token id = llama_sample_token(ctx, NULL, grammar, params, last_tokens, candidates);
 
         last_tokens.push_back(id);
-        output_tokens.push_back(id);
         --n_remain;
 
         LOG("n_remain: %d\n", n_remain);
@@ -384,8 +356,6 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         }
 
         const std::string token_str = llama_token_to_piece(ctx, id);
-
-        output_ss << token_str;
         fputs(token_str.c_str(), stdout);
         fflush(stdout);
 
@@ -396,6 +366,22 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         }
     }
 
+    std::vector<int>   output_tokens;
+    std::ostringstream output_ss;
+    const size_t prompt_size = prompt_tokens.size();
+
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < last_tokens.size(); i++) {
+        const std::string token_str = llama_token_to_piece(ctx, last_tokens[i]);
+        if (i >= prompt_size) {
+            output_ss << token_str;
+            output_tokens.push_back(last_tokens[i]);
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    console::cleanup();
+    printf("\n");
+
     llama_print_timings(ctx);
     write_logfile(ctx, params, model, prompt_tokens, output_ss.str(), output_tokens);
 
@@ -411,5 +397,5 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     LOG_TEE("Log end\n")
 #endif // LOG_DISABLE_LOGS
 
-    return 0;
+    return interrupted.load() ? 130 : 0;
 }