Why does this simple program segfault?

[BCS]

Reply to Bill,

> Isn't there something we can do about this?  I do this about once a
> day when in a heavy D using phase.  It bites newbies and
> not-so-newbies alike.  I almost think it should be made so that no
> initializer calls the default constructor, and if you really want it
> to be null then you should initialize with null:
>

we could change the seg-v message to "Did you forget to new somthing?"