Yup, can confirm. Release builds usually have nearly all useful stack information stripped out, so if you get a NRE, you're kind of left playing pin-the-tail-o

Yup, can confirm. Release builds usually have nearly all useful stack information stripped out, so if you get a NRE, you're kind of left playing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey guessing at what might have been null, without null-checks and asserts.