Re: GCC 16.2 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

Torbjorn SVENSSON via Gcc <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 13:34:38 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.devel
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On 2026-08-03 13:33, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 01:27:36PM +0200, Torbjorn SVENSSON wrote:
>> Hi Jakub,
>>
>> On 2026-07-31 12:07, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>> The first release candidate for GCC 16.2 is available from
>>>
>>>    https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/16.2.0-RC-20260731/
>>>    ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/16.2.0-RC-20260731/
>>>
>>> and shortly its mirrors.  It has been generated from git commit
>>> r16-9480-g967a69a03886ebd6.
>>>
>>> I have so far bootstrapped and tested the release candidate on
>>> x86_64-linux.
>>> Please test it and report any issues to bugzilla.
>>>
>>> If all goes well, we'd like to release 16.2 on Friday, August 7th.
>>>
>>
>> I was not fast enough to get https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124806 approved and merged before last Friday.
>> Do you think this is something that should be included in 16.2? Or would you rather wait until after 16.2 is released?
>> I don't know if the issue is limited to mingw, but any build without mmap would crash cc1plus when using modules and there is an error of some sort.
> 
> This isn't a recent regression, so I think it can wait for 16.2.1.

Ok, I'll hold on to the picking until after 16.2 is out.

Thanks for the quick response.

Kind regards,
Torbjörn