=== GCC on FreeBSD

Links: +
link:https://gcc.gnu.org/[GCC Project] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/[] +
link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/[GCC 13 release series] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/[] +
link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/[GCC 14 release series] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/[] +
link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/[GCC 15 release series] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/[] +
link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-16/[GCC 16 release series] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-16/[] +

Contact: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org>

This quarter we have three main pieces of news.

In January we investigated why GCC 16 weekly snapshots stopped compiling since the last snapshot of November.
It took many eyes to understand what happened, but eventually the problem was understood and a fix was committed upstream in February.
The details can be found in the link:https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123366[upstream bug report].
Thanks to all people who helped, in particular to Mark Millard and mailto:dim@FreeBSD.org[Dimitry Andric].

At the moment package:lang/gcc16-devel[] does not build on arm64.
Unfortunately I have not found the time to really look into this yet, but I hope to be able to do it soon.
link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=294062[PR 294062] is the bug report that tracks the issue.

The link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=292692[process] to get GCC_DEFAULT=15 has started.
The GCC_DEFAULT=14 update is still recent and GCC 14 is actively supported, so there is no hurry to get this completed; but since those updates tend to be long I have already started it.
Thus this is not my top priority at the moment: it is is where I put my energy when I have spare cycles, for now.