Crashes with

kirr@deco:~/tmp/trashme$ go run crash.go 
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x484d04]

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.derefInt(...)
        /home/kirr/tmp/trashme/crash.go:7
main.crash(...)
        /home/kirr/tmp/trashme/crash.go:12
main.doSmth1(...)
        /home/kirr/tmp/trashme/crash.go:16
main.doSmth2(...)
        /home/kirr/tmp/trashme/crash.go:20
main.main()
        /home/kirr/tmp/trashme/crash.go:34 +0x4
exit status 2

The fault is actually not crash - nil memory access generates an exception that can be handled: With

--- a/crash.go.kirr
+++ b/crash.go
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ func doSmth2() {
 
 
 func main() {
-       if false {
+       if true {
                defer func() {
                        e := recover()
                        if e != nil {

it becomes

kirr@deco:~/tmp/trashme$ go run crash.go 
recovered; error was: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference