Silent crash on null pointer access

Gaming and Visualization Technologies Visualization OptiX
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I’ve noticed that the following code crashes silently, with no exception thrown on the host:

class A {
public:
  int *data = 0;
};

RT_PROGRAM void generate_ray() {
  A a;
  printf("a: %s\n", a.data[0]); // Silent crash
  printf("a: %s\n", a.data[1]); // Illegal access exception
}

Context context = Context::create();
...
context->launch(0, 1);

Why is this the case?

Changing the data index to 1 causes an illegal access exception as expected.

I’m using OptiX 6, driver 418.39, CUDA 10.1, RTX 1080 Ti.