On Windows, C++ exceptions have a stack trace. It's not perfect because all the destructors for your stack allocated objects have run. So for example, any std:

On Windows, C++ exceptions have a stack trace. It's not perfect because all the destructors for your stack allocated objects have run. So for example, any std::string on the stack will be gone, but any pointers to structures on the heap are still intact. In addition, just knowing what the stack was is invaluable in debugging even if you don't have the values of every variable. It's a huge pain that you can't get that under linux.