windows 7 *.exe has stopped working

[intmain311]

hi,
i have recently noticed that when using code::blocks with mingw, i purposely coded for a runtime error (endless recursion) but the program crashes with an error saying that the program has stopped working...

i was wondering if this was a windows 7 problem or if it had to do with mingw...

i am used to programming in java so i was thinking that c++ had the same convenient runtime error logs, but now i am not sure

whats wrong???

thank you

[Athar]

Nothing's wrong, there are no convenient error logs. At least not without some extra work.
While you might pay a price for Java's various overheads, it's not like you don't get anything in return.

[intmain311]

thank you for your quick reply
so is there a way to easily find runtime errors? or do you have to reread the code?

[Athar]

No, there are debuggers for that. They will print the stack trace and allow you to inspect variables at the time of crash etc.