Merge Sort Problem

I have several text files and I will read through one them and insert each line in linked list. Then I sort the linked list using merge sort. And it works fine for my smaller text files but I have a very large one and I keep getting a stack overflow error and did not know what is wrong and how to fix it...

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    /*

     * C++ Program to Implement Merge Sort using Linked List

     */

    #include <iostream>

    #include <cstdio>
#include <string>

    #include <cstdlib>
#include <fstream>

    using namespace std;

    /*

     * Node Declaration

     */

    struct node

    {

        string data;
		int num;

        struct node* next;

    };

     

     

    struct node* SortedMerge(node* a, node* b);

    void FrontBackSplit(node* source, node** frontRef, node** backRef);

     

    /* sorts the linked list by changing next pointers (not data) */

    void MergeSort(struct node** headRef)

    {

        node* head = *headRef;

        node* a;

        node* b;

        if ((head == NULL) || (head->next == NULL))

        {

            return;

        }

        FrontBackSplit(head, &a, &b);

        MergeSort(&a);

        MergeSort(&b);

        *headRef = SortedMerge(a, b);

    }

    /* merge the sorted linked lists */

    node* SortedMerge(struct node* a, struct node* b)

    {

        node* result = NULL;

        if (a == NULL)

            return b;

        else if (b==NULL)

            return a;

        if (a->data <= b->data)

        {

            result = a;

            result->next = SortedMerge(a->next, b);

        }

        else

        {

            result = b;

            result->next = SortedMerge(a, b->next);

        }

        return result;

    }

     

    /* Split the nodes of the given list into front and back halves*/

    void FrontBackSplit(node* source, node** frontRef, node** backRef)

    {

        node* fast;

        node* slow;

        if (source==NULL || source->next==NULL)

        {

            *frontRef = source;

            *backRef = NULL;

        }

        else

        {

            slow = source;

            fast = source->next;

            while (fast != NULL)

            {

                fast = fast->next;

                if (fast != NULL)

                {

                    slow = slow->next;

                    fast = fast->next;

                }

            }

            *frontRef = source;

            *backRef = slow->next;

            slow->next = NULL;

        }

    }

     

    /* print nodes in a given linked list */

    void printList(node *node)

    {

        while (node != NULL)

        {

            cout<<node->data<<endl;

            node = node->next;

        }

    }

     

    /* insert a node at the beginging of the linked list */

    void push(node** head_ref, string new_data)

    {

        node *new_node = new node;

        new_node->data = new_data;

        new_node->next = (*head_ref);

        (*head_ref)    = new_node;

    }

    /* Main */

    int main()

    {
		int num;
		string file_name;
		string file;
		ifstream infile;
        node* res = NULL;

        node* a = NULL;
		cout << "What file would you like to open: ";
		getline(cin, file_name);
		infile.open(file_name);
		while(infile >> num && (getline(infile, file)))
		{
			push(&a, file);
		}
        MergeSort(&a);

        cout<<"\n Sorted Linked List is: \n";

        printList(a);
		system("Pause");
        return 0;

    }
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