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2025-12-28T19:52:06Z

GNU Tools Weekly News Week 18 (December 28, 2025)
Last Newsletter of the year
Quiet last week due to the Winter holidays
Happy Holidays to all; Merry Christmas to the ones who celebrate; and
Happy New years to all
May 2026 be the wonderful year for GNU toolchain

Release updates for GNU toolchain:
None

General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news):
* binutils gdb snapshots, don't create xz src-release archives, used gz
* https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb/20251222225243.387371-1-mark@klomp.org/T/

GCC commits:
* gccrs: 12 patch sync
* ifcvt improvements for `a ? b OP c: b`; helps RISC-V
* AutoFDO improvements
* aarch64: Add support for fp8 SME2 intrinsics

GCC discussion:
* Generation of Make Dependencies for C++ Modules
* https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/87v7hqhe6r.fsf@oracle.com/T/

GCC bugzilla stats
* 79 new issues filed
* 42 issues closed

glibc commits:
* LoongArch: Use generic __builtin_trap in abort

binutils/gdb commits:
* aarch64: Add FEAT_MOPS_GO instructions
* AArch64: Add FEAT_SVE2p3, FEAT_SME2p3, FEAT_F16F32DOT,
FEAT_F16F32MM instructions
* AArch64 v9.7 extensions: FEAT_F16MM and FEAT_SVE_B16MM
* Some libsframe improvements (start of SFrame V3 support)