When `__cxa_pure_virtual` is just a different flavor of SEGFAULT

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A program crashed during shutdown, with message pure virtual method called which came from __cxa_pure_virtual – where a pure virtual function points to, in its vtable. Its implementation involves calling std::terminate which calls std::abort which by default throws a SIGABRT, and crashing the program. Now, why did pure virtual method got called?

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