dereferencing null

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 05:31:34PM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
[...]
> I wholeheartedly agree that we should use the hardware features that
> we are given, and that NullPointerException is not worth the bloat.
> But we should be doing *something* better than just printing
> "Segmentation Fault".
[...]

On Linux, you can catch SIGSEGV and print a stacktrace in the signal
handler. This is pretty standard procedure.

In theory, we *could* have druntime install a handler for SIGSEGV upon
program startup that prints a stacktrace and exits (or do whatever the
equivalent is on Windows, if compiled on Windows).


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