GNU Tools Weekly News Update Week 8 (October 19, 2025) General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news): * notes from Sourceware Open Office was held on Friday October 10th ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/
GCC discussion: * New GCC maintainers/reviews ** Tamar Christina is co-maintainer of the vectorizer *** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/cagwvnyngwfgcrasrvte2poh4r8+a5wzgechi1u+cw69hoof...@mail.gmail.com/T/#u ** Robin Dapp is a reviewer of the vectorizer *** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CAGWvnyn8WuNoJ_Q8Mh_k7J=2qu0srhs3fqobjowasmccqu+...@mail.gmail.com/T/#u ** tree-if-conv.cc is officially part of the vectorizer maintainership area *** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CAGWvnymXW5yWq_JT3mF=ea2PRPRDtRg6jj7u_Nr=g-otbdf...@mail.gmail.com/T/#u * Patches for adding Algol 68 to GCC were posted ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/[email protected]/T/#t * How to write/read tree contains ssa_name in lto ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CAPt2h2bGo-cHK8CGc6=s2dfjgjwkppqumt8-vyuzxg8gwvd...@mail.gmail.com/ ** Turned into a discussion on how to handle recording if 2 memory allocations happen how to mark if one is loaded from; the other does not trap too * plans for gcobol 16 ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/ * Discussion around patches from the sourceware forge ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/caps5khb1ajw3ds-kmdkwbafwh6apv-zo-xjoidmpmmxn-kf...@mail.gmail.com/T/#m86a67388fed189739518ee1314f3e8736bbf0833 * Add btf_decl_tag and btf_type_tag C attributes for GCC v11 of the patches ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/[email protected]/T/#m0812b326872ebae48b935274726e5ec1f1a18b46 GCC commits: * Enable constant propagation to OpenMP kernels ** New first time contributor ** big improvement for openmp * Allow target to chose address-space for artificial rodata ** Improves AVR target size requirements when dealing with conversion of switch tables to constant lookup tables and CRC lookup tables ** https://gcc.gnu.org/cgit/gcc/commit/?h=trunk&id=e347e2b81ac7daa7382c611a62d54ec0b761bee8 ** 7 years from the initial patch to the current pushed one * Initial support for Intel Wildcat Lake processors * Implement P1494 and P3641 Partial program correctness (c++ and library) * Enable runtime thread detection with -ftree-parallelize-loops * libstdc++: Implement P2835R7 Expose std::atomic_ref's object address GCC bugzilla stats * 77 new issues filed * 60 issues closed glibc commits: * Implement C23 memalignment * aarch64: clear ZA state of SME before clone and clone3 syscalls glibc discussion: * compiling with clang patches posted ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/[email protected]/ gdb/binutils commits: * binutils: Add a position statement about LLM generated content ** https://sourceware.org/cgit/binutils-gdb/commit/?id=c0316a54b489d68e30de718aee69ab441799aad2 binutils discussion: * continued GNU Tools Cauldron SFrame talk notes ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/[email protected]/ ** Also related LLVM discussion about adding SFrame support: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-adding-sframe-support-to-llvm/86900
