GCC 17 Feature Development Ends Next Week

How time flies with the GCC 17 feature development set to end next week and transitioning over to a bug fixing focus. As typical for November, the GNU Compiler Collection will be transitioning from its "stage one" development onto stage three (stage two was phased out many years ago) to focus on bug fixing or new ports that don't touch other areas of the compiler. Then around January is where it moves to the more strict stage four mode where only regression fixes are targeted. Richard Biener at SUSE announced the intent to transition out of stage one next week on 15 November. GCC 17 has seen a lot of changes such as AVX10V1AUX support, -mtune=native -mcpu=native on RISC-V, initial support for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE", more AMD Zen tuning, SpacemiT X100 core targeting, 128-bit atomic memory operations, Function Multi-Versioning (FMV) for AVX10.2 and APX, and initial infrastructure for C++29. If all goes well GCC 17.1 stable should make its debut around the typical April timeframe for this annual GCC compiler feature release. GCC 17 benchmarks to come on Phoronix.