News [LWN.net] [$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond

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José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit with a 90-minute summary of what has changed for GCC's BPF support in the past year. This kind of session has become something of a tradition. There were similar updates in 2025 and 2024. This time around, GCC seems to be closing in on feature parity with the LLVM toolchain — as the slides detail.

Source: https://lwn.net/Articles/1071973/

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