If I remember correctly the crashes came from gdb, if it tries to access not initialized variables.
If this in not fixed in gdb sources, there is no way for the IDE to fix this or even work around it easily.
If this really is the case, then we should bring the feature back. People might say, hey CB crashes, while it was actually GDB, but then that same remark goes for eg Eclipse and other IDE's.
Next to that, from a programmers view, not initializing your variables, all hell should go loose upon you ;-)
As said, if that is the cause, the good programmers should not be punished.
I will try the patch when updated too, do we have an example code on how to reproduce such crash, will ask a colleague who uses eclipse to reproduce the crash too.