GNU Tools Weekly News Week 25 (February 15, 2026) Release updates for GNU toolchain: * gcc 16.0 regression status * P1: 25 -4 * P1+P2+P3 total: 834 -26
General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news): * Sourceware Open Office was held Friday, February 13, 2026 * virtual machines, virtual communities * Minutes will provided later on * Notice for the meeting: https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/T/#mb31f7907f11b667f4a653169df77657c2a37a3ff * Office Hours for the GNU Toolchain will happen on Thursday February 19, 2026 * https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/OfficeHours * Asian Friendly one: 0900h "Asia/Kolkata" * US/EU Friendly one: 1100h EST5EDT GCC easy issue to tackle of the week: * Transform if (a[i] > 0) sum += a[i] into sum += max (0, a[i]) when vectorizing and have conditional add * https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124097 * 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 * Add copy prop for aggregates into a return * libgcobol: Add --with-target-libxml2{,-lib,-include}= * MinGW: Reject dll{im,ex}port attribute on TLS variables GCC discussion: * BPF weekly open office minutes - 09 - Feb - 2026 * https://inbox.sourceware.org/bpf/[email protected]/T/#u GCC bugzilla stats * 73 new issues filed * 90 issues closed glibc commits: * support: Add support for starting and stopping nscd * Linux: In getlogin_r, use utmp fallback only for specific errors glibc discussion: * Meeting Minutes - Office Hours for CTI - 2026-02-13 * https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/[email protected]/T/ binutils/gdb commits: * binutils: Mark all Solaris targets. except Solaris 10, as obsolete. * gdb: remove arm simulator support gdb discussion: * binutils discussion: *
