Hi, for Fortran it fixes displaying normal strings also in frames/backtraces: (gdb) frame #0 f (s=..., _s=3) at ./gdb.fortran/fortran-frame-string.f90:24 -> #0 f (s='foo', _s=3) at ./gdb.fortran/fortran-frame-string.f90:24 The patch is simple and I do not see why it should not be this way. For C/C++ TYPE_CODE_STRING is not used. I am not aware of Pascal but that language is currently not really much supported in GDB anyway. This was a part of my archer/jankratochvil/vla branch but it is not a part of the Intel VLA patchset as it in fact is completely unrelated to "VLA". No regressions on {x86_64,x86_64-m32,i686}-fedora22pre-linux-gnu. Thanks, Jan