Solving random crashes

Question

I am getting random crashes on my C++ application, it may not crash for a month, and then crash 10 times in a hour, and sometimes it may crash on launch, while sometimes it may

Answer 1

Start the program under debugger (I'm sure there is a debugger together with GCC and MingW) and wait until it crashes under debugger. At the point of crash you will be able to see what specific action is failing, look into assembly code, registers, memory state - this will often help you find the cause of the problem.