Program Terminates / Crashes on cleanupstack::PushL() statement

I just decided I wanted to create programs for my nokia phone which uses symbian third

So i was going though a tutorial" Wiley - S60.Programming.A.Tutorial.Guide.Apr.2007" which seems to have errors in their code.. but anyway..

when i entered this example and ran it it jus exited prematurely. No reason nothing (i'm familiar with visual basic coding so the lack of an error message is very disconcerting. I then proceeded to debug and step though the program and every time it reaches the statement "CleanupStack::PushL(self);" in the NewLC function it just exits. I tried taking out the cleanupstack statements and it runs fine.
I'm using Carbide.c++ v1.3 and i placed the debugger in the text mode

i attached the code a part of the main which calls the NewL which calls the NewLC which is where it fails at the cleanupstack::PushL(self2); statement

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LOCAL_C void MainL()
	{
	//
	// add your program code here, example code below
	//
	CCards* deckOfCards = CCards::NewL();
	TInt i, card;
	for (i=0; i<15; i++)
 
 
--------------------------------------------------------
#include "cards.h"
CCards* CCards::NewL()
	{
	CCards* self = CCards::NewLC();
	CleanupStack::Pop(self);
	return(self);
	}
 
CCards* CCards::NewLC()
	{
	CCards* self2 = new (ELeave) CCards();
	self2->ConstructL();
	CleanupStack::PushL(self2);
	return(self2);
	}
 
void CCards::ConstructL()
	{
	}
 
CCards::CCards()
	{
	for (TInt i=0; i<52; i++)
		iDeck[i] = i;
	}