Question:
I was testing some code on Coliru, and I got a strange output. I went down the code and could reproduce it with this simple piece of code:
int main()
{
π
}
The output on g++:

clang:

For instance, using just pi (without
the address-of) shows the expected result:
main.cpp:3:5: error: 'pi' was not declared in this scope
pi;
^
I tried to reproduce this on my machine, using g++ 4.9.2 and on others sites but I could not.
Is this some bug on this site, some config of these compilers ?
And why only using the address-of operator (&)
shows this symbol ?
Answer:
It's a bug on the site, as the compiler's output is not properly escaped. The compiler should output π,
but that's valid HTML, producing the pi symbol you see.