GNU Tools Weekly News Week 18 (December 28, 2025)

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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)