[Gibbon1]

I have a bit of code I use for ARM Cortex devices where I can trap bus errors. Most of the time I can recover the program counter where that happened. And use addr2line to get the file and line number. I've heard game developers talk about doing that sort of thing as well.

I would think if the C/C++ developers didn't have their head up their **[1] that could be a standard out of the box feature. There isn't any reason a program couldn't spit to stderr, 'seg_fault: file boots.c, line 1043'

In C++ I'm dubious you couldn't throw an exception instead of dumping.

[1] Got rid of frame pointers because they were sure that would make their dog slow C++ compilers run faster. Voice over. But it didn't make them faster. It made programs impossible to profile.