Sorry for being late (stuff happened) GNU Tools Weekly News Week 11 (November 9, 2025)
General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news): * GCC stage 1 ends Nov 14th this week! * new gprofng maintainers in binutils ** Claudiu Zissulescu and Jose E. Marchesi, congrats * The GCC Steering Committee has a wiki page detailing their mission and current requests are listed ** https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/gcc-steering-committee * GCC (GNU Toolchain) dev room at FOSDEM 2026, January 31-Februrary 1, Brussels, Belgium - Calls for proposals ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/ * Updated Getting started page on the GCC wiki (GCC 101) ** https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC101 ** Base tutorial started and hope others can add to it for the 200 series ** Other projects in the toolchain should have a similar page too GCC discussion: * Question about conditional functional unit reservation * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/aQvprPLNQTDvdcGK@dalaran/ * Change the default C++ dialect to gnu++20? * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/ GCC commits: * SSA immediate use iterator checking ** New checking for FOR_EACH_IMM_USE_STMT * c: GNU extension allowing compound literals of variable size * RISC-V: Fix the ABI of empty unions and zero length array in struct * Ada/GNAT 30 patch sync GCC bugzilla stats * 106 new issues filed * 106 issues closed glibc commits: * AArch64: Fix instability in AdvSIMD sinh/tan * Add C23 long_double_t, _FloatN_t * Support assert as a variadic macro for C23 glibc discussion: * C23 addition of once_flag to <stdlib.h> ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/cah6ehdt65txghu9_ef+zwyktt86o__4pwjsa0pc8kkm2adc...@mail.gmail.com/T/#m233b3244f2981dffb81772f99a90fab9137d5d01 binutils/gdb commits: * new gprofng maintainers
