[RFC] Use emoji to indicate errors and warnings

Puputti, Matti matti.puputti@intel.com
Mon Jan 13 15:21:34 GMT 2025


> Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com> writes:
> 
> > This patch adds, at long last, some emoji output to gdb.  In
> > particular, warnings are indicated with the warning sign, and errors
> > with the police car light.
> >
> > Perhaps this kind of thing should be configurable.
> >
> > Also it should probably be dependent on whether the current encoding
> > is UTF-8 compatible.
> 
> While I like the colours, I'm not totally convinced about this!  But I'm
> not against it going in, if it makes some people happy.  I would
> certainly like to see a run-time switch to allow this to be turned off
> though.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew

I second to that. Personally I would prefer it to be disabled by default,
but obviously that is just my personal opinion.

Br,
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