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| GNU Tools Weekly News Week 35 (April 26, 2026) |
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| Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:52:15 -0700 |
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GNU Tools Weekly News Week 35 (April 26, 2026)
Note this is earlier this week due to family events on Sunday for me
Release updates for GNU toolchain:
* GCC 16
* Branched off
*
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/e5202c2a-39b5-40be-dcb7-...
* RC 1 and RC2 were released last week
* https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/aetiNPseqMyJtQMK@tucnak/T/
* final release is due to Thursday 30th if all goes well
* GCC 17 is trunk now
* status:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CALvbMcBQufUKJG5s+R1oGUJ...
* GDB 17.2.0 release update
* https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/ae0RrhlVXxhOv7fx...
* valgrind 3.27.0 was released on 20 Apr 2026
* https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.news.html
* https://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/2026/04/20/anticipati...
* Qemu 11.0.0 was released on 21 Apr 2026
* https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commits/v11.0.0?re...
GNU toolchain conference news:
* FOSSY 2026 toolchain track North America, Aug 6-9 (Vancouver, Canada)
* Call for Proposals: https://2026.fossy.ca/call-for-proposals/
* GNU Tools Cauldron 2026, Fri-Sun, October 2-4 (Prague, Czechia)
* https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2026
* https://conf.gnu-tools-cauldron.org/prg26/cfp
General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news):
* GCC Development AI Policy Working Group formed
* Led by Jonathan Wakely
*
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CAGWvnymkWtb2Koy=kbBFm5p...
* https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/working-group-ai-policy
* See also discussion about AI/LLMs:
* https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/b02e6ede-d7eb-4818-b470-...
*
GCC easy issue to tackle of the week:
*
* Note this is different from previous weeks; this is cleanup of GCC
sources rather than missed optimization
* Reach out to Andrea Pinski <andrew.pinski@oss.qualcomm.com> for
mentoring on this issue.
GCC commits:
* GCC 17 is now the trunk
* d: Implement attribute no_split_stack
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r16-8751-ge6ea8245cde290
* cfghooks: Pass data to callback function of make_forwarder_block
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-23-gcb70dab0e4bfa9
* c++: Add support for [[gnu::trivial_abi]] attribute
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-43-g1e89650aff94c2
* c++: CWG 2229, cv-qualified unnamed bit-fields [PR123935]
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-47-ge38ac19123b35c
* match: x != -CST ? x + CST : 0 -> x + CST [PR122996]
* Easy issue of the week (March 8, 2026)
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-55-g2b0b9d3c696e50
* dce: eliminate dead relaxed atomic loads with no LHS [PR123966]
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-75-gf1b16d7a17bf2c
* strlen: Use gimple_build/gimple_convert_to_ptrofftype [PR122989]
* Easy issue of the week (April 19, 2026)
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-82-g2985e0bd9b2aee
* match: remove bit set/bit clear branch mispredict [PR64567]
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-83-gb4162b53545220
* scev/niter: Use INTEGRAL_NB_TYPE_P instead of direct comparison to
INTEGER_TYPE
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-89-g78280307c78ead
GCC discussion:
* GSoC 2026 project discussions from participates
* RFC: Standalone AutoFDO Profile Tool for GCC
*
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CALvbMcDw_ZuVew5yPnrZFOh...
* RFC: AutoFDO GCOV Profile Format Version 4
*
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CALvbMcAaE7ChqEg7wHa05mG...
* Forge update and Archival of forge discussions
* https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/191fadd9-52c8-41d3-91b0-...
* https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/c3f1c579-5408-4936-ba45-...
GCC bugzilla stats
* new issues filed
* issues closed
glibc commits:
* AArch64: Improve AdvSIMD and SVE pow(f)
* https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=3f97be129d80...
* AArch64: Implement AdvSIMD and SVE powr(f) routines
* https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=2ff2565df781...
*
glibc discussion:
* glibc AI policy (continued)
*
binutils/gdb commits:
* Many improvements to Windows gdb (and gdbserver) support
* changes needed before supporting non-stop debugging on Windows
* ld: Maintain the input file order
* https://sourceware.org/cgit/binutils-gdb/commit/?id=da208...
* Fixes some GCC LTO issues with static linking
* https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124869
*
gdb discussion:
*
binutils discussion:
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