Reporting a fatal error as requested. I was trying to recode a variable into another variable that I had already created (i.e. labelled) but didn't have data in it.
proximate cause: Segmentation Violation
version: GNU pspp 1.6.2-g78a33a
host_system: x86_64-w64-mingw32
build_system: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
locale_dir: C:\Program Files\PSPP/share/locale
compiler version: 10-win32 20210110