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>Number: 60497
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: gdb prints garbled gibberish in an attempt to show cutesy emoji
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 24 17:30:01 +0000 2026
>Originator: Taylor R Campbell
>Release: current
>Organization:
The NetGDB Garbledemoji, Inc.
>Environment:
>Description:
(gdb) break write
❌️ Function "write" not defined.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) y
My terminal emulator does not display emoji, nor does any
terminal emulator or font that NetBSD ships out of the box as
far as I know, so it comes out instead as a couple of empty
squares of different sizes.
I think we should turn this cutesy/annoying `feature' off by
default.
>How-To-Repeat:
run gdb
>Fix:
Yes, please!