GNU Tools Weekly News Week 20 (January 11, 2026) Release updates for GNU toolchain: * GCC stage 4 starts January 12, 2026
General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news): * Andrew Pinski was appointed as a global reviewer for GCC * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/ * Sourceware held their open office Friday January 8, 2026 * notes from it: https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/T/#t GCC commits: * ipa-cp: Move decision to clone for all contexts to decision stage * ipa-cp: Multiple sweeps over the call-graph in the decision stage * Ada: 45 patch sync * aarch64: Add support for FEAT_F8F32MM, FEAT_F8F16MM, and FEAT_SVE_F16F32MM. * aarch64: Add support for FEAT_PCDPHINT atomic_store intrinsics and __pldir intrinsic * LTO: Improve handling of toplevel inline-asm (needed for linux kernel) GCC discussion: * Mailing list [email protected] * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/T/#u * Testing if an expression has side effects at compile time * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/T/#t GCC bugzilla stats * 152 new issues filed * 114 issues closed glibc commits: * no notable commits due to the release freeze binutils/gdb commits: * aarch64: Add FEAT_NV3, FEAT_SRMASK2, FEAT_TPS and FEAT_TPSP system registers
