GNU Tools Weekly News Week 11 (November 9, 2025)

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GNU Tools Weekly News Week 11 (November 9, 2025)

General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news):
 * GCC stage 1 ends Nov 14th this week!
 * new gprofng maintainers in binutils
  ** Claudiu Zissulescu and Jose E. Marchesi, congrats
 * The GCC Steering Committee has a wiki page detailing their mission
and current requests are listed
   ** https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/gcc-steering-committee
 * GCC (GNU Toolchain) dev room at FOSDEM 2026, January 31-Februrary
1, Brussels, Belgium - Calls for proposals
  ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/875xparmhn.fsf@kataplop.net/
 * Updated Getting started page on the GCC wiki (GCC 101)
  ** https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC101
  ** Base tutorial started and hope others can add to it for the 200 series
  ** Other projects in the toolchain should have a similar page too

GCC discussion:
 * Question about conditional functional unit reservation
  * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/aQvprPLNQTDvdcGK@dalaran/
* Change the default C++ dialect to gnu++20?
 * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/aQj1tKzhftT9GUF4@redhat.com/

GCC commits:
 * SSA immediate use iterator checking
  ** New checking for FOR_EACH_IMM_USE_STMT
 * c: GNU extension allowing compound literals of variable size
 * RISC-V: Fix the ABI of empty unions and zero length array in struct
 * Ada/GNAT 30 patch sync

GCC bugzilla stats
 * 106 new issues filed
 * 106 issues closed

glibc commits:
 * AArch64: Fix instability in AdvSIMD sinh/tan
 * Add C23 long_double_t, _FloatN_t
 * Support assert as a variadic macro for C23

glibc discussion:
 * C23 addition of once_flag to <stdlib.h>
   ** https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/CAH6eHdT65txghU9_eF+zWykTt86o__4pwJsA0PC8kkM2aDcs5A@mail.gmail.com/T/#m233b3244f2981dffb81772f99a90fab9137d5d01

binutils/gdb commits:
 * new gprofng maintainers