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If I had to guess (and simplify too) I would say that that would be the difference between your freshly compiled C program just dying with sigsegv then getting (mostly) peacefully cleaned up, or otherwise your system either flat out dying on you or even worse, something somewhere getting corrupted and the system spirals out of control possibly thrashing data and even hardware.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/1311432