Problem Statement

Create a program that crashes as soon as possible, with as few lines of code as possible. Be smart and don't damage your computer, ok? The code should be syntactically valid. It should be possible to insert [a subset of] your submission into another program, presumably to help debug it, or perhaps for use when an internal corruption has been detected and it would be dangerous and irresponsible to continue.

Let's start with the solution:

# syntax: GAWK -f HALT_AND_CATCH_FIRE.AWK
#
# This won't halt the CPU but the program will crash immediately on startup
# with "error: division by zero attempted".
BEGIN { 1/0 }
#
# This will heat up the CPU, don't think it will catch on fire.
BEGIN { while(1) {} }
#
# Under TAWK 5.0 using AWKW will immediately abort.
BEGIN { abort(1) }