Crashes for me in a debug build, a backtrace was obtained.

#0 0x00717aa8 in software_list_find (swlist=0x0, software=0x12b4e39 "*") at src/mess/softlist.c:736
#1 0x00717afa in software_list_first (swlist=0x0) at src/mess/softlist.c:749
#2 0x009f515c in info_listsoftware (options=0x6dd6448, gamename=0x138ad1b "*") at src/mess/climess.c:150
#3 0x009bb133 in execute_commands (options=0x6dd6448, exename=0x22fde8 "messd", driver=0x0) at src/emu/clifront.c:326
#4 0x009baa55 in cli_execute (argc=2, argv=0x6dd2608, osd_options=0x1349780) at src/emu/clifront.c:151
#5 0x00834db0 in utf8_main (argc=2, argv=0x6dd2608) at src/osd/windows/winmain.c:318
#6 0x0103008e in wmain (argc=2, argv=0x6dd26b8) at src/osd/windows/main.c:82
#7 0x004013d1 in __tmainCRTStartup () at ../mingw-w64-crt/crt/crtexe.c:268
#8 0x7c816d4f in RegisterWaitForInputIdle () from C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll