GNU Tools Weekly News Week 33 (April 12, 2026) Release updates for GNU toolchain: * gcc 16.0 regression status (note this is not official numbers, it might be off by a few) * P1: 10 +1 * P1+P2+P3 total: 766 -0
General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news): * GNU Tools Cauldron 2026 timing and location quietly has been made public * Fri-Sun, October 2-4, 2026 at Charles University in Prague, Czechia * https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2026 * Krister Walfridsson's blog about smtgcc part 6: uninitialized memory * https://kristerw.github.io/2026/04/10/uninitialized-memory/ * Results of the Sourceware Survey 2026 * https://sourceware.org/survey-2026 * Sourceware infrastructure updates for Q1 2026 * https://inbox.sourceware.org/overseers/[email protected]/ * Sourceware Survey results and Budget priority discussions * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/ GCC easy issue to tackle of the week: * `((~x) & y) ^ (x | y)` is x * https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112095 * Reach out to Andrea 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 * c++: Implement CWG3140 - Allowing expansion over non-constant std::array * https://gcc.gnu.org/cgit/gcc/commit/?id=b2d4d8ddd91c6087420facef74841099b49e91ad * c++: Implement CWG3135 - constexpr structured bindings with prvalues from tuples * https://gcc.gnu.org/cgit/gcc/commit/?id=7e4e9dd9eb01de7bf9fc7abe82e9ab01123283cc * aarch64: AutoFDO: Add support for ARM SPE to autoprofiledbootstrap * https://gcc.gnu.org/cgit/gcc/commit/?id=5df258ae1ad01fc75705a35296a29fd359121845 GCC discussion: * GSoC 2026 project discussions from participates * (more) Update on community health * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CALvbMcBQzYDcfUW0OtU3BK=6FhrKmLmNhwMVJ5OZmg=cawu...@mail.gmail.com/T/#t * (continued) On sending forge pull request discussions to the mailing list * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/ GCC bugzilla stats * 77 new issues filed * 55 issues closed glibc commits: * math: Add fast-path to fma * https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=dfb150f3aadd93118a78ef9e19c2663f0e1994b7 glibc discussion: * glibc AI policy binutils/gdb commits: * gas/ld: aarch64: Add support for %dtprel(var) and R_AARCH64_TLS_DTPREL64 gdb discussion: * binutils discussion: *
