On Saturday, 15 March 2014 at 23:23:04 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
I believe that there was some work done to make it so that
druntime would
detect a segfault and print a stacktrace when that happens, but
it's not
enabled normally, and I don't know quite what state it's in.
That would
probably be the ideal solution though, since it gives you the
stacktrace
without requiring additional checks.
- Jonathan M Davis
I read some _very_ old threads, and apparently a null dereference
raised an exception only on Windows, while on linux it still
needed work to be implemented properly. Things probably changed a
lot in the mean time, but I think the default behaviour should be
"throw an exception" on every platform. A core dump with zero
extra info is bad. I don't care if 95% of times you can fire up a
debugger and find out what happened. This is not something that
can be always done.
