Hey all,

I am building a font glyph atlas for 2D and 3D rendering using the following code:

dchar c = '\u0000';
while (c <= '\U0000FFFF') {
  if(isValidDchar(c)){
    # Code working on the char
  }
}

This compiles, and works as expected using DMD, and LDC2.

However when I try and build the code using GDC, it gives me the following error:

src/font.d:95:15: error: invalid UTF character \U0000FFFF

Any thoughts on why this is happening in GDC, since it works in DMD and LDC2 ?
And any idea how to fix this ?

Kind regards,
Danny

On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 at 08:54:33 UTC, Danny Arends wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I am building a font glyph atlas for 2D and 3D rendering using the following code:
>
> dchar c = '\u0000';
> while (c <= '\U0000FFFF') {
>   if(isValidDchar(c)){
>     # Code working on the char
>   }
> }
>
> This compiles, and works as expected using DMD, and LDC2.
>
> However when I try and build the code using GDC, it gives me the following error:
>
> src/font.d:95:15: error: invalid UTF character \U0000FFFF
>
> Any thoughts on why this is happening in GDC, since it works in DMD and LDC2 ?
> And any idea how to fix this ?
>
> Kind regards,
> Danny

What GDC version?

void main()
{
    dchar c = '\u0000';
    while (c <= '\U0000FFFF') {
    }
}

compiles here with gdc (GDC 2.081.2) 8.2.0

On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 at 09:32:51 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 at 08:54:33 UTC, Danny Arends wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I am building a font glyph atlas for 2D and 3D rendering using the following code:
>>
>> dchar c = '\u0000';
>> while (c <= '\U0000FFFF') {
>>   if(isValidDchar(c)){
>>     # Code working on the char
>>   }
>> }
>>
>> This compiles, and works as expected using DMD, and LDC2.
>>
>> However when I try and build the code using GDC, it gives me the following error:
>>
>> src/font.d:95:15: error: invalid UTF character \U0000FFFF
>>
>> Any thoughts on why this is happening in GDC, since it works in DMD and LDC2 ?
>> And any idea how to fix this ?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Danny
>
> What GDC version?
>
> void main()
> {
>     dchar c = '\u0000';
>     while (c <= '\U0000FFFF') {
>     }
> }
>
> compiles here with gdc (GDC 2.081.2) 8.2.0

I am using the GDC2 compiler from the Ubuntu Repository (I guess this is a really old version of gdc)

gdc --version

  gdc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10) 5.4.0 20160609

Guess I will have to manually install the latest version, I was hoping to be able to use the version in the Ubuntu packages, to have the requirements for the program be:

apt install gdc

I will try to use the newest version, see if it can compile the code

Thanks,
Danny

On 11 September 2018 at 12:17, Danny Arends via D.gnu <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 at 09:32:51 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 at 08:54:33 UTC, Danny Arends wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I am building a font glyph atlas for 2D and 3D rendering using the following code:
>>>
>>> dchar c = '\u0000';
>>> while (c <= '\U0000FFFF') {
>>>   if(isValidDchar(c)){
>>>     # Code working on the char
>>>   }
>>> }
>>>
>>> This compiles, and works as expected using DMD, and LDC2.
>>>
>>> However when I try and build the code using GDC, it gives me the following error:
>>>
>>> src/font.d:95:15: error: invalid UTF character \U0000FFFF
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on why this is happening in GDC, since it works in DMD and
>>> LDC2 ?
>>> And any idea how to fix this ?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Danny
>>
>>
>> What GDC version?
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>     dchar c = '\u0000';
>>     while (c <= '\U0000FFFF') {
>>     }
>> }
>>
>> compiles here with gdc (GDC 2.081.2) 8.2.0
>
>
> I am using the GDC2 compiler from the Ubuntu Repository (I guess this is a
> really old version of gdc)
>
> gdc --version
>
>   gdc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10) 5.4.0 20160609
>
> Guess I will have to manually install the latest version, I was hoping to be able to use the version in the Ubuntu packages, to have the requirements for the program be:
>
> apt install gdc
>
> I will try to use the newest version, see if it can compile the code
>

gcc-5 is nearly 4 years old!

You'd probably have better luck switching to the current LTS release of Ubuntu, which installs gcc-7 by default, which is a reasonable version to start from.