Hi Eric, This is really a question about character sets and string representation in C and not a question about GCC. What you are seeing are the integer values of the individual characters in the array, that is '0' to '8' followed by the string terminator '\0'. The values, you see, are consistent with with the ASCII character set. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII Try changing the string and compare the result with the ASCII tables. Yours sincerely, Bjorn
