GNU Tools Weekly News Week 28 (March 8, 2026) Release updates for GNU toolchain: * gcc 16.0 regression status * P1: 16 -5 * P1+P2+P3 total: 793 -19
General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news): * The Compile Farm Project now hosts two NVIDIA DGX Spark and one NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor * https://portal.cfarm.net/news/56 * https://portal.cfarm.net/news/58 GCC easy issue to tackle of the week: * Missed optimization for branch folding with unsigned arithmetic wraparound * https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122996 * Reach out to Andrew Pinski <[email protected]> for mentoring on this issue GCC commits: * note most of the commits from now until the release are bug fixes which have not been listed here normally * x86: Many -masm=intel fixes for AVX/AVX2/AVX512 GCC discussion: * GSoC 2026 project discussions from participates * SFrame for C++ coroutine stack traces * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/T/#u GCC bugzilla stats * 91 new issues filed * 81 issues closed glibc commits: * math: Sync log1pf, log2p1f, log10f, and log10p1f with CORE-MATH * AArch64: Improve memset when len is 64 glibc discussion: * Adjust the _Float16 ABI to return in a GPR (32bit x86) * https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/CAOq2Nw=rq4w8dpwtuwoxzzyfj02zhgcvvwxki4+y3c9xtin...@mail.gmail.com/T/ binutils/gdb commits: * PowerPC: Support for SHA2 and SHA3 Compute Instructions (RFC02654) * libiberty sync from gcc repo gdb discussion: * binutils discussion: *
