GNU Tools Weekly News Week 24 (February 8, 2026) Release updates for GNU toolchain: * binutils 2.46 was released * https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/[email protected]/T/#t * gcc 16.0 regression status * P1: 29 * P1+P2+P3 total: 860
General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news): * GCC easy issue to tackle of the week: * New feature this week, This is a highlight of one bug report that would be a good issue for someone new to GCC to fix * If others want to sponsor an issue please let me know and I can add that one for the week (gdb, binutils and glibc issues welcome too) * lower mempcpy to memcpy when result is unused * https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93556 * 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 * doc: Move parameter docs to the GCC internals manual * Removal of CONST_CAST and related macros (C++ification cleanup) GCC discussion: * GCC bugzilla stats * 118 new issues filed * 136 issues closed glibc commits: * math: Order signed zeros in f{max,min}{,mag}{f,l,f128} * math: Optimize f{max,min}imum{,_num,_mag,_mag_num}{f,l,f128} * AArch64: Optimize memcpy for Kunpeng 950 processor * AArch64: Add if('fastmath') to math-vector-fortran.h binutils/gdb commits: * PowerPC: Support for Elliptic Curve Cryptography Instructions (RFC02669) * [gold] Note gold and dwp deprecation in NEWS * bpf: add may_goto instruction gdb discussion: * binutils discussion: *
