GNU Tools Weekly News Week 25 (February 15, 2026)

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GNU Tools Weekly News Week 25 (February 15, 2026)

Release updates for GNU toolchain:
 * gcc 16.0 regression status
  * P1:                       25            -4
  * P1+P2+P3 total: 834           -26

General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news):
 * Sourceware Open Office was held Friday, February 13, 2026
  * virtual machines, virtual communities
  * Minutes will provided later on
  * Notice for the meeting:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/20260214002144.GN8940@gnu.wildebeest.org/T/#mb31f7907f11b667f4a653169df77657c2a37a3ff
* Office Hours for the GNU Toolchain will happen on Thursday February 19, 2026
 * https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/OfficeHours
 * Asian Friendly one:  0900h "Asia/Kolkata"
 * US/EU Friendly one: 1100h EST5EDT

GCC easy issue to tackle of the week:
* Transform if (a[i] > 0) sum += a[i] into sum += max (0, a[i]) when
vectorizing and have conditional add
  * https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124097
  * 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
 * Add copy prop for aggregates into a return
 * libgcobol: Add --with-target-libxml2{,-lib,-include}=
 * MinGW: Reject dll{im,ex}port attribute on TLS variables

GCC discussion:
 * BPF weekly open office minutes - 09 - Feb - 2026
  * https://inbox.sourceware.org/bpf/87ldh1lk1g.fsf@gnu.org/T/#u

GCC bugzilla stats
 * 73 new issues filed
 * 90 issues closed

glibc commits:
 * support: Add support for starting and stopping nscd
 * Linux: In getlogin_r, use utmp fallback only for specific errors

glibc discussion:
 * Meeting Minutes - Office Hours for CTI - 2026-02-13
  * https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/41a4d52e-e890-4a12-9046-92f1a6f51eaf@redhat.com/T/


binutils/gdb commits:
 * binutils: Mark all Solaris targets. except Solaris 10, as obsolete.
 * gdb: remove arm simulator support

gdb discussion:
 *
 binutils discussion:
 *