There is no need to fire up gdb in the example case on the backward-cpp Github page because it's a trivial example (dereferencing an obviously invalid pointer),

There is no need to fire up gdb in the example case on the backward-cpp Github page because it's a trivial example (dereferencing an obviously invalid pointer), but to say it eliminates the need for gdb to debug segfaults in general is a bit of an overstatement.