On Friday, 27 July 2012 at 19:48:33 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Windows, an access violation (from a null pointer or other causes) is an exception that is thrown and can even be caught.On Linux, a segfault is a signal that just kills the program, it doesn't work like a regular exception.
Linux also dumps the state into a file. So I'd have to wonder what the problem was, you would have all the information at hand.
