[distcs]

> In many years of coding C++, very rarely I experienced a stack overflow or segmentation fault. It is literally not an issue in every codebase I have worked with.

Is this true for most people though? What do you think about this quote?

Frankly I've seen a lot of segmentation fault issues with C++ projects. Granted much of it can be detected pre-emptively with good tools and when a segfault happens, I can debug it quickly too using a good debugger.

But I've to say that they still do happen and I still see them happening enough while developing and testing that I cannot simply dismiss segfaults as something unimportant.

[Yoric]

Mozilla has Crash Scenes Investigations, a team dedicated to tracking down segfaults, so... yeah, they very much exist in the wild.

[aldanor]

As someone said above in the thread, segfaults is what you get if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, you get silent memory corruption that you will eventually notice through bugs popping up in seemingly unrelated parts of code.