GNU Tools Weekly News Week 44 (June 28, 2026) Release updates for GNU toolchain: * GCC 14.4.0 was released * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/aj5L4BbnW8XMF7GQ@tucnak/
GNU toolchain conference reminders: * FOSSY 2026 toolchain track North America, Aug 6-9 (Vancouver, Canada) * https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/fossy2026 * GNU Tools Cauldron 2026, Fri-Sun, October 2-4 (Prague, Czechia) * https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2026 * https://conf.gnu-tools-cauldron.org/prg26/cfp * Toolchains Track at LPC 2026, October 7th (Prague, Czechia) * https://lpc.events/event/20/abstracts/ General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news): * GCC easy issue to tackle of the week (2 this week): * ICE with return type of typedef of void and `#pragma omp declare simd` * https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111856 * Reach out to Andrea Pinski <[email protected]> for mentoring on this issue. * For RISC-V, prefer li+slli rather than lui+add for some constants * https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126022 * Reach out to Jeff Law <[email protected]> for mentoring on this issue. * Previous ones are listed on https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/EasyIssuesOfTheWeek GCC commits: * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1733 ... r17-1943 211 commits * RTL: add dependent filter handling * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1779-g9d82914d073e2e ... https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1783-gc23f20c10d89af * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/[email protected]/ * AArch64/SVE: Optimize vec_init for partial SVE vector modes * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1799-gb3acc5dd98f44d * rs6000: Add Future Vector Integer Arithmetic Instructions * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1800-ga3b8e252101ada * OMP improvements * De-duplicate libgomp entry points for OMPT * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/[email protected]/ * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1803-g37c96bf08325bf ... https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1806-gd50e9f17fffa9b * rs6000: Builtins for ECC cryptography instructions * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1856-g2b3c882b5b8e96 * RISC-V: GLIBC's setjmp preserves callee-saved registers * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1857-g21dad398994ff5 * GCC rust sync * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1863-g5333e241a36912 ... https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1904-g30a64527c56af9 * match: Use ranges for int-float comparisons * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1931-g8351875a5e2c52 * Use tree_expr_nonnegative_p instead of TYPE_UNSIGNED for MAX (A, B) (==,!=) 0 -> (A|B) (==,!=) 0 * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1938-g61b702d88c8e55 * Remove BOOL_BITFIELD define from system.h and update its uses * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1943-g08944b70002610 GCC discussion: * [RFC TREE-WIDE] gcc: stop using 'int' to represent sets of qualifiers * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/ * RFC: Allow "(mem:<vectype> (reg:<vectype>))" * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/ * [RFC] LRA: Carrying hard registers around * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/ * RFC: Bump minimum GNU Make version to 3.81 * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/cah6ehdruohreeyp6jmgzgq6qxusme4kr66ly62uk59mpynt...@mail.gmail.com/ * [RFC] Add simple forwprop across edges (PHIs) * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/[email protected]/ GCC bugzilla stats * 101 new issues filed * 76 issues closed binutils/gdb commits: * binutils: RISC-V: Add some extensions * Zalasr * SpacemiT vendor extension xsmtvdot * SpacemiT vendor extension xsmtvdotii * Svrsw60t59b * Zvabd * https://sourceware.org/cgit/binutils-gdb/log/?qt=range&q=d3b84dac949ac10f8736c85253b4a1073d244ac1...d26861e53c74d54be86149dd5b78d339487bebb4 * Smpmpmt * https://sourceware.org/cgit/binutils-gdb/commit/?id=e56bd09181016800870de47c1f3a1091f71d9120 * gdb: Handle nested Ada functions with gnat-llvm * https://sourceware.org/cgit/binutils-gdb/commit/?id=26d17a9b24dfd4a3894bc19ac752466ea10e80b2 * gdb discussion: * Adding architecture-specific commands in GDB * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb/[email protected]/ binutils discussion: * glibc commits: * manual: Document indirect functions (IFUNC) * https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=657fe73fb1ce09c109fffafb16d565eedbbe05ed glibc discussion: *
