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2026-03-09T07:52:30Z

GNU Tools Weekly News Week 28 (March 8, 2026)

Release updates for GNU toolchain:
* gcc 16.0 regression status
* P1: 16 -5
* P1+P2+P3 total: 793 -19

General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news):
* The Compile Farm Project now hosts two NVIDIA DGX Spark and one
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
* https://portal.cfarm.net/news/56
* https://portal.cfarm.net/news/58

GCC easy issue to tackle of the week:
* Missed optimization for branch folding with unsigned arithmetic wraparound
* https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122996
* Reach out to Andrew Pinski <andrew.pinski@oss.qualcomm.com> for
mentoring on this issue

GCC commits:
* note most of the commits from now until the release are bug fixes
which have not been listed here normally
* x86: Many -masm=intel fixes for AVX/AVX2/AVX512

GCC discussion:
* GSoC 2026 project discussions from participates
* SFrame for C++ coroutine stack traces
* https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/ae4cf3a0-222a-4d01-9463-71b58bd48597@oracle.com/T/#u

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

glibc commits:
* math: Sync log1pf, log2p1f, log10f, and log10p1f with CORE-MATH
* AArch64: Improve memset when len is 64

glibc discussion:
* Adjust the _Float16 ABI to return in a GPR (32bit x86)
* https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/CAOq2Nw=rq4W8DpWtUwoXzZyfJ02ZHgcVVWXki4+y3c9XtiN+RQ@mail.gmail.com/T/

binutils/gdb commits:
* PowerPC: Support for SHA2 and SHA3 Compute Instructions (RFC02654)
* libiberty sync from gcc repo

gdb discussion:
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binutils discussion:
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