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| GNU Tools Weekly News Week 9 (October 26, 2025) |
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| Sun, 26 Oct 2025 21:38:45 -0700 |
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GNU Tools Weekly News Update Week 9 (October 26, 2025)
General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news):
* Valgrind 3.26.0 released
* Stabs debugging info support was removed from GDB
GCC discussion:
* Contributing the Algol 68 Front-End to GCC
** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/87zf9kov10.fsf@oracle.com/
* Do people find the "Option Summary" in the GCC manual useful?
** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/e9a10fd7-4c50-4376-8c7b-...
GCC commits:
* C2y: Implement static assertions in expressions
* C2y: Allow unspecified arrays in generic association.
* Simplification of vec_perm chains implementing concat-and-extract
** Improves SIMDe code generation for non-x86 targets
* Simplification pattern of round semantics
** Improves SPEC 2017's 538.imagick_r by ~3%
* C++23: Implement P2674R1 - A trait for implicit lifetime types
* Implement bool reduction vectorization
** x86_64 and aarch64 (both SIMD and SVE)
* libstdc++: Implement optional<T&> from P2988R12 (C++26)
* cobol: Implement the XML PARSE statement.
* phiopt: Finish up moving minmax_replacement to match-and-simplify
** This was a partial transition that was started 2 years ago
GCC bugzilla stats
* 93 new issues filed
* 89 issues closed
glibc commits:
* Many fixes for compiling glibc with clang
gdb/binutils commits:
* GDB: Stabs debugging support was REMOVED
binutils discussion:
* continued GNU Tools Cauldron SFrame talk notes
** https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/933bbc83-5732-4655-...
** Also related LLVM discussion about adding SFrame support:
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-adding-sframe-support-to...
