Starting with 0.17.0-insiders, a bug was introduced that will cause the extension to repeatedly crash if a non-folder path was added to the includePath in c_cpp_properties.json.
For example:
"includePath": [
"${workspaceFolder}/include/my_header_file.h"
]
should be just:
"includePath": [
"${workspaceFolder}/include"
]
If you actually meant to force include the file everywhere, then use the forcedInclude property.