John Love-Jensen wrote: > Set _GLIBCXX_FULLY_DYNAMIC_STRING to be defined? (I presume I shouldn't > just do -D_GLIBCXX_FULLY_DYNAMIC_STRING ... that seems wrong.) No, you'd add --enable-fully-dynamic-string to configure. BTW this is PR24196, which also contains a patch to fix the issue without fully pessimizing away the empty string optimization. Brian