GNU Tools Weekly News Week 47 (July 19, 2026)

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GNU Tools Weekly News Week 47 (July 19, 2026)


Release updates for GNU toolchain:
 * GDB 18 release schedule proposal
  * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/87fr1gcb4p.fsf@redhat.com/

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):
 * Meeting Minutes - Office Hours for the GNU Toolchain - 2026-07-16
  * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/43420f3d-9e50-4f50-9553-034af94438f4@redhat.com/

GCC easy issue to tackle of the week:
 * None this week, Andrea is on vacation.


GCC commits:
 * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-2346 ... r17-2531 186 commits
 * cse: Eliminate redundant scalar duplication at different vector widths
  * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-2354-g10f6223d833874
 * C++29: P3424R2: Deallocations with Throwing Exception Specification
Are Ill-formed
  * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-2482-g57ecb9897a0964
 * match: Simplify sign tests for MIN and BIT_IOR
  * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-2487-gf8eb22d8408b25
  * Easy issue of the week: Week 45
 * lto: Support #pragma GCC diagnostic
  * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-2493-g4c85f7cf587f0f .. r17-2488-ga7db48e71b9483
 * aarch64: deprecate the TME extension
  * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-2498-g17f084306c68c4
 * riscv: Add min support for some extensions
  * Svrsw60t59b, Ssqosid, Ssctr, Smctr, Smcdeleg, Ssccfg
  * Ziccamoc, Ziccid
  * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-2521-ga3ee6072ca6d72 ... r17-2528-g741dd3fa641a45
 * Improve BB vectorization of reductions
  * https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-2478-g3adb3325954177


GCC discussion:
 * [RFC] Proposal for tagged_by attribute to describe union discriminators
  * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/alf4-IVENZDyJ70X@thesun/


GCC bugzilla stats
 *  91 new issues filed
 *  58 issues closed


binutils/gdb commits:
 * gdb: add annotation in 'info locals' command for variables shadowing case
  * https://sourceware.org/cgit/binutils-gdb/commit/?id=2465b9e4131514bdb42365076ef65ef6ad0e3f6c

gdb discussion:
 * [RFC] [gdb] Move ChangeLog files to archive dir
  * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/20260620114010.2417788-1-tdevries@suse.de/
binutils discussion:
 *

glibc commits:
 * math: Update tanh from CORE-MATH (revision cf237fa0)
  * https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=6b29e74c731e2ac1bc8048a389fdaf029bd96072
glibc discussion:
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