GNU Tools Weekly News Update Week 9 (October 26, 2025) General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news): * Valgrind 3.26.0 released * Stabs debugging info support was removed from GDB
GCC discussion: * Contributing the Algol 68 Front-End to GCC ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/ * Do people find the "Option Summary" in the GCC manual useful? ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/ GCC commits: * C2y: Implement static assertions in expressions * C2y: Allow unspecified arrays in generic association. * Simplification of vec_perm chains implementing concat-and-extract ** Improves SIMDe code generation for non-x86 targets * Simplification pattern of round semantics ** Improves SPEC 2017's 538.imagick_r by ~3% * C++23: Implement P2674R1 - A trait for implicit lifetime types * Implement bool reduction vectorization ** x86_64 and aarch64 (both SIMD and SVE) * libstdc++: Implement optional<T&> from P2988R12 (C++26) * cobol: Implement the XML PARSE statement. * phiopt: Finish up moving minmax_replacement to match-and-simplify ** This was a partial transition that was started 2 years ago GCC bugzilla stats * 93 new issues filed * 89 issues closed glibc commits: * Many fixes for compiling glibc with clang gdb/binutils commits: * GDB: Stabs debugging support was REMOVED 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
