Serious answer?It's actually very useful. Programs usually load at the same address, and you can then use either the map file or load the program into memory with a debugger (on the same OS version) to find out where the address is.
In that case the error can be narrowed down considerably, although a process dump is much more useful than just an address.
The problem is moot, though; various Unixes/Vista support Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) to make stack overflow/code injection attacks etc harder. This changes the base load address of the process, and thus probably renders the memory address of a crash useless.
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In that case the error can be narrowed down considerably, although a process dump is much more useful than just an address.
The problem is moot, though; various Unixes/Vista support Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) to make stack overflow/code injection attacks etc harder. This changes the base load address of the process, and thus probably renders the memory address of a crash useless.