http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53690
Bug #: 53690 Summary: \u0000 and \U00000000 are wrong encoded as U+0001. Classification: Unclassified Product: gcc Version: unknown Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: kenn...@gmail.com Tested with gcc 4.7 and 4.5 (via ideone) ~~~~~~~~~~~ #include <cstdint> #include <cstdio> int main() { uint32_t a = U'\U00000000'; uint32_t b = U'\u0000'; uint32_t c = U'\x00'; uint32_t d = U'\0'; uint16_t e = u'\U00000000'; uint16_t f = u'\u0000'; uint16_t g = u'\x00'; uint16_t h = u'\0'; printf("%x %x %x %x %x %x %x %x\n", a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h); return 0; } // Compile with: // // g++ -std=c++11 x.cpp ~~~~~~~~~~~ This program prints "1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0", but the expected output should be "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0". gcc -v: Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.0/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: /build/src/gcc-4.7-20120505/configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=https://bugs.archlinux.org/ --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-libstdcxx-time --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --with-ppl --enable-cloog-backend=isl --enable-lto --enable-gold --enable-ld=default --enable-plugin --with-plugin-ld=ld.gold --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --enable-multilib --disable-libssp --disable-build-with-cxx --disable-build-poststage1-with-cxx --enable-checking=release --with-fpmath=sse Thread model: posix gcc version 4.7.0 20120505 (prerelease) (GCC)