Segementation Fault

SDL Development
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I am having problems with the following few lines of code. The first time through the
outer while loop, everything is rendered properly. My image (gps_map) is displayed, and
if I add any text to the buffer (buffer) beforehand, it is displayed. However, when I
handle an event that adds text to the buffer, setting the dirty flag to true, the program
seg faults on the SDL_Flip(screen) call. I know that screen is not null because I tested
it just before the call that seg faults. What am I missing here?

while(!done){

if(dirty){
    SDL_Rect dest;
    
    dest.x = 52;
    dest.y = 20;
    dest.w = gps_map->w;
    dest.h = gps_map->h;
    
    SDL_BlitSurface(gps_map, NULL, screen, &dest);

    dest.x = 0;
    dest.y = 0;

    text = TTF_RenderText_Solid(font, buffer->getBuffer(), white);
    SDL_BlitSurface(text, NULL, screen, &dest);
    SDL_FreeSurface(text);

    SDL_Flip(screen);
    dirty = false;
}

// Handle events . . . set dirty flag if event changes display
 .
 .
 .

}//end while

Christian