can die() cause PHP to crash???

Perhaps this is once again a Win32 issue (haven´t yet tested on Linux), but is it possible that die() causes PHP to crash??? If I don´t stick die() inside a method the script finishes without problems, but I wanted to output some var using die(var_dump()), unofortunately PHP crashes then... Is it theoretically possible? Can this problem be solved without me to post k´s of code? I guess that problem will disappear If I start reducing code, that happend 3 times so far and I´m tired condensating code for NULL. best regards -- o----------0-¬---------O-·---¬----o---®-----o o O ° . | http://www.kiffen.de | pRoteçt y0ur bRaín |0 O ° ¤ ° · 0°·³°²'²³-¹'³´³°^°³~³²³°'³²²¨³²^³¹³²°²³`³º³°Þ ° o © ° . · | psychedelic experience | gott@kiffen.de | O ° o ° o-¬--o--0-----©-·--O-----o-----0-¤----------o 0 ° · ° . ¤ ·