GNU Tools Weekly News November 2

GNU Tools Weekly News Week 10 (November 2, 2025)

General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news):
 * The GCC Steering Committee has a wiki page detailing their mission
and current requests are listed
  ** https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/gcc-steering-committee
* Sourceware infrastructure community updates for Q3 2025
  ** Includes an update on forge
  ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/20251029104337.GN26406@g...
 * Office Hours for the GNU Toolchain was held on October 30, 2025
  ** Notes from the call can be found at https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/OfficeHours
 * RISCV GCC: ABI breakage with fixed-length vector arguments

 GCC discussion:
  * GCC Wiki Warning History
   **
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CAF9ehCWJbihdCAV1xEeW2jr...
   ** https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/WarningHistory
 * a new version of `C: implement defer statements as per ts 25755` was posted
  ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/20251027231813.9...


GCC commits:
 * Rust/gccrs: 143 commits sync up
 * Ada/GNAT: 19 commit sync up
 * C: Add GNU extension allowing compound literals of variable size
 * Start to fix toplevel inline-asm with LTO
 * libstd++ (library side): Implement C++23 P2674R1 - A trait for
implicit lifetime types
 * Use the ranger in niter (helps with ctz loops)
 * RISC-V: Implement standard fixed-length vector calling convention variant

GCC bugzilla stats
 * 97 new issues filed
 * 90 issues closed

glibc commits:
 * More fixes for compiling glibc with clang

gdb discussion:
 * test gdb as it runs qemu simulator
  **
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb/874irebykq.fsf@tromey.co...

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...