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

Where I work, crashing programs usually generates a core dump file that can be loaded in windbg.

We then have an image of the memory at the time the program crashed. There's nothing much you can do with it, but a least it gives you the last call stack. Once you know the function which crashed, you might then be able to track down the problem are at least you might reduce the problem to a more reproductible test-case.