[klodolph]

A couple situations.

Sometimes you can end up in a pickle because the embedded system you’re working with just doesn’t have a good debugger available, or it may be cumbersome to set up.

Sometimes the segfault happens in a production environment and you just can’t hook up a visual debugger to the ten different instances of the server you’re running.

I agree that a segfault is a fun error to try and diagnose because it really exercises your gray matter. But it’s not my job to diagnose segfaults, it’s my job to keep the service running up to some certain standard, and if I find myself diagnosing lots of segfaults, there is usually something else I could be doing involving instrumentation or testing to address those defects which is more boring but more productive :-)