C++ :: Passing Vector To A Function - Getting Negative Length And Size

I am writing a raytracer, and currently I'm working on creating a bounding volume hierarchy to accelerate the process. To do this, I am first creating a vector that holds each of the objects in the scene, and passing this vector to the constructor for my BVH.

Code:
//in header
BVH_Node* bvh;
//in main raytrace function

[Code] .....

I am testing a scene that has only 2 objects, and so it goes to the size == 2 check. The first time it hits makeLeaf(), I segfault. I've used both gdb and valgrind, and of course it's a memory mapping error. gdb's backtrace tells me that the length of the vector I've passed in is -805305610 and the capacity is -21, and that it is inside my makeLeaf() function that the error occurs.

Here's the function:

Code:
BVH_Node* BVH_Node::makeLeaf(GeomObj* v){
BVH_Node* node;
node->obj = v;
node->isObj = true;
return node;
}

The segfault happens at
Code: node->obj = v;
If I run my raytracer without a BVH, the objList works perfectly.