GNU Tools Weekly News Week 28 (March 8, 2026)

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GNU Tools Weekly News Week 28 (March 8, 2026)

Release updates for GNU toolchain:
 * gcc 16.0 regression status
  * P1:                       16            -5
  * P1+P2+P3 total: 793           -19

General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news):
 * The Compile Farm Project now hosts two NVIDIA DGX Spark and one
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
  * https://portal.cfarm.net/news/56
  * https://portal.cfarm.net/news/58

GCC easy issue to tackle of the week:
 * Missed optimization for branch folding with unsigned arithmetic wraparound
  * https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122996
  * Reach out to Andrew Pinski <[email protected]> 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
 * x86: Many -masm=intel fixes for AVX/AVX2/AVX512

GCC discussion:
 * GSoC 2026 project discussions from participates
 * SFrame for C++ coroutine stack traces
  * https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/T/#u

GCC bugzilla stats
 * 91 new issues filed
 * 81 issues closed


glibc commits:
 * math: Sync log1pf, log2p1f, log10f, and log10p1f with CORE-MATH
 * AArch64: Improve memset when len is 64

glibc discussion:
 * Adjust the _Float16 ABI to return in a GPR (32bit x86)
  * https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/CAOq2Nw=rq4W8DpWtUwoXzZyfJ02ZHgcVVWXki4+y3c9XtiN+RQ@mail.gmail.com/T/


binutils/gdb commits:
 * PowerPC: Support for SHA2 and SHA3 Compute Instructions (RFC02654)
 * libiberty sync from gcc repo

gdb discussion:
 *

binutils discussion:
 *