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2026-01-12T08:45:23Z

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