i just noticed my gdb had an emoji in it’s output and was scared that the arch repos got hacked and someone pushed vibe-coded RATs but no, it’s actually part of the source, gdb is Gen Z now!

binutils-gdb ❯ rg "❌"
gdb/cli/cli-style.c
475:static std::string error_prefix = "❌️ ";

gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/style.exp
338:        "❌️ requires argument.*" \
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