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This change removes the existing undefined behavior from `LogicError`, so we can be certain that there will be always a stacktrace. De-referencing a null pointer is an old trick to generate `SIGSEGV`, which would typically also create a stacktrace. However it is also an undefined behaviour and compilers can do something else. A more robust way to create a stacktrace while crashing the program is to use `std::abort`, which we have also used in this location for a long time. If we combine the two, we might not get the expected behaviour - namely, the nullpointer deref followed by `std::abort`, as handled in certain compiler versions may not immediately cause a crash. We have observed stacktrace being wiped instead, and thread put in indeterminate state, then stacktrace created without any useful information.