GNU Tools Weekly News Week 10 (November 2, 2025) General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news): * The GCC Steering Committee has a wiki page detailing their mission and current requests are listed ** https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/gcc-steering-committee * Sourceware infrastructure community updates for Q3 2025 ** Includes an update on forge ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/T/#u * Office Hours for the GNU Toolchain was held on October 30, 2025 ** Notes from the call can be found at https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/OfficeHours * RISCV GCC: ABI breakage with fixed-length vector arguments
GCC discussion: * GCC Wiki Warning History ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CAF9ehCWJbihdCAV1xEeW2jrSJ12q=H-6=xh4eftuokfl4xx...@mail.gmail.com/T/#t ** https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/WarningHistory * a new version of `C: implement defer statements as per ts 25755` was posted ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/[email protected]/T/#t GCC commits: * Rust/gccrs: 143 commits sync up * Ada/GNAT: 19 commit sync up * C: Add GNU extension allowing compound literals of variable size * Start to fix toplevel inline-asm with LTO * libstd++ (library side): Implement C++23 P2674R1 - A trait for implicit lifetime types * Use the ranger in niter (helps with ctz loops) * RISC-V: Implement standard fixed-length vector calling convention variant GCC bugzilla stats * 97 new issues filed * 90 issues closed glibc commits: * More fixes for compiling glibc with clang gdb discussion: * test gdb as it runs qemu simulator ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb/[email protected]/T/#mc83281aa015bbf793fb2372363848bb1ad7fe403 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
