i also developed a habit of writing assert()s before
dereferencing
pointers first time (including class refs) in appropriate
places, so
i'll got that stack trace for free. ;-) and i never turning off
that
asserts in "release builds".
About null pointer deref & core dump
I think, it is problem. Dland on windows gives stacktrace without
any problem. In general it is expected behavior for many people
from different languages (Java, C#). So from my point of view it
is bad idea has core dump for null deref in linux by default.
As I remember current linux handler is dirty hack, and it is main
reason why it is disabled by default.
