I've done it, on purpose, to cause a crash, so that it would drop a core file and I could find out exactly how it got to that point in the code. (g++ on an ARM

I've done it, on purpose, to cause a crash, so that it would drop a core file and I could find out exactly how it got to that point in the code. (g++ on an ARM, on an embedded system running embedded Linux, with lots of functions that could be called by more than one thread. "ulimit -c unlimited".)