http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53477
Tom Tromey <tromey at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Target Milestone|--- |3.1.x/3.2.x --- Comment #1 from Tom Tromey <tromey at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-07-13 18:38:18 UTC --- (Fixed the component) I can't reproduce this. I can print wordMapBitset before it is initialized but I get a different error: (gdb) p wordBitsetMap $4 = std::map with 140737488349518 elementsCannot access memory at address 0x68732f6c61636f7c ... which isn't pretty but is at least vaguely understandable as "GIGO". What version of gdb are you using? Can you do it with stack-printing enabled? ("set python print-stack on" in recent versions, somewhere under "maint" in older ones.) This might help.