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2025-11-03T07:51:51Z

GNU Tools Weekly News Week 10 (November 2, 2025)

General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news):
* The GCC Steering Committee has a wiki page detailing their mission
and current requests are listed
** https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/gcc-steering-committee
* Sourceware infrastructure community updates for Q3 2025
** Includes an update on forge
** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/20251029104337.GN26406@gnu.wildebeest.org/T/#u
* Office Hours for the GNU Toolchain was held on October 30, 2025
** Notes from the call can be found at https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/OfficeHours
* RISCV GCC: ABI breakage with fixed-length vector arguments

GCC discussion:
* GCC Wiki Warning History
** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CAF9ehCWJbihdCAV1xEeW2jrSJ12q=H-6=xH4EFtuOkfL4xxM9w@mail.gmail.com/T/#t
** https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/WarningHistory
* a new version of `C: implement defer statements as per ts 25755` was posted
** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/20251027231813.954-1-navi@vlhl.dev/T/#t

GCC commits:
* Rust/gccrs: 143 commits sync up
* Ada/GNAT: 19 commit sync up
* C: Add GNU extension allowing compound literals of variable size
* Start to fix toplevel inline-asm with LTO
* libstd++ (library side): Implement C++23 P2674R1 - A trait for
implicit lifetime types
* Use the ranger in niter (helps with ctz loops)
* RISC-V: Implement standard fixed-length vector calling convention variant

GCC bugzilla stats
* 97 new issues filed
* 90 issues closed

glibc commits:
* More fixes for compiling glibc with clang

gdb discussion:
* test gdb as it runs qemu simulator
** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb/874irebykq.fsf@tromey.com/T/#mc83281aa015bbf793fb2372363848bb1ad7fe403

binutils discussion:
* continued GNU Tools Cauldron SFrame talk notes
** https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/933bbc83-5732-4655-870c-4c50b3742637@oracle.com/
** Also related LLVM discussion about adding SFrame support: