What you really want to do in these cases is log debugging info to a noinit section of memory or nonvolatile memory and then reset the processor. Then the firmware can check for and report any logged errors on startup. If you do this religiously you might make it to fifty with most of your hair.
Also, for those programmers who have some input on the EE's designs, a stuff option for MRAM is amazing. It's essentially equivalent to battery backed SRAM, but one chip. We stick logs and hardware exception stack traces/register dumps in there on dev units.
