Hello I'm having problems with my program. I've always been able to see strings with gdb, but now I can't! Here's my source: #include #include using namespace std; string foo(){ string ret; ret = "lal"; return ret; //> = {}, _M_p = 0xbffff7a0 "l\234\004\ba"+$@?¡Ây"??\205\004\bT_\022@a"+$@?¡Ây"?d\n\023@\001"}, static _S_empty_rep_storage = {0, 0, 0, 0}} (gdb) p ret.c_str() Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x400acf3c in std::char_traits::assign(char&, char const&) () from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.1/libstdc++.so.5 The program being debugged was signaled while in a function called from GDB. GDB remains in the frame where the signal was received. To change this behavior use "set unwindonsignal on" Evaluation of the expression containing the function (std::string::c_str() const) will be abandoned. (gdb) Here are my compiler flags: -ggdb -O0 -fno-inline g++ version: bash-2.05b$ g++ --version g++ (GCC) 3.2.1 20021207 (Gentoo Linux 3.2.1-20021207) gdb version: bash-2.05b$ gdb --version GNU gdb 5.3 any suggestions? --Jacques