Why null reference not showing crash.

[Andy Valencia]

On Saturday, 2 August 2025 at 20:29:22 UTC, Brother Bill wrote:
> Why does this run, but not display expected null reference 
> exception?

Death by signal (SIGSEGV in this case) is not an Exception.  I 
had a program dying from a SIGPIPE--same deal, you can't catch it 
with an exception handler.

Fortunately for me, SIG_IGN the SIGPIPE was the right thing.  In 
your case, SIG_IGN is out of the question.  I guess you could arm 
a SIGSEGV handler, but I doubt this is useful in any but the most 
uniquely manageable scenarios.

Andy