GNU Tools Weekly News Week 20 (January 11, 2026)

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GNU Tools Weekly News Week 20 (January 11, 2026)

Release updates for GNU toolchain:
 * GCC stage 4 starts January 12, 2026

General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news):
 * Andrew Pinski was appointed as a global reviewer for GCC
  * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/8a1d0ad6-f2c5-4814-83bb-72508f1e9927@gmail.com/
 * Sourceware held their open office Friday January 8, 2026
  * notes from it:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/20260111231157.GO20684@gnu.wildebeest.org/T/#t

GCC commits:
 * ipa-cp: Move decision to clone for all contexts to decision stage
 * ipa-cp: Multiple sweeps over the call-graph in the decision stage
 * Ada: 45 patch sync
 * aarch64: Add support for FEAT_F8F32MM, FEAT_F8F16MM, and FEAT_SVE_F16F32MM.
 * aarch64: Add support for FEAT_PCDPHINT atomic_store intrinsics and
__pldir intrinsic
 * LTO: Improve handling of toplevel inline-asm (needed for linux kernel)

GCC discussion:
 * Mailing list bpf@gcc.gnu.org
  * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/87bjj3rowl.fsf@gnu.org/T/#u
 * Testing if an expression has side effects at compile time
  * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/87h5sun2ub.fsf@tromey.com/T/#t

GCC bugzilla stats
 * 152 new issues filed
 * 114 issues closed

glibc commits:
 * no notable commits due to the release freeze

binutils/gdb commits:
 * aarch64: Add FEAT_NV3, FEAT_SRMASK2,  FEAT_TPS and FEAT_TPSP system registers