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

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On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM GNU Tools weekly
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> Sorry for being late (stuff happened)
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> GNU Tools Weekly News Week 11 (November 9, 2025)
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> General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news):
>  * GCC stage 1 ends Nov 14th this week!

Small correction, GCC stage 1 ends Monday Nov 17th rather than Friday
Nov 14th. The difference is minor because of the weekend.

>  * 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
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> 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/
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> 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
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> GCC bugzilla stats
>  * 106 new issues filed
>  * 106 issues closed
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> glibc commits:
>  * AArch64: Fix instability in AdvSIMD sinh/tan
>  * Add C23 long_double_t, _FloatN_t
>  * Support assert as a variadic macro for C23
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> 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
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> binutils/gdb commits:
>  * new gprofng maintainers