Project:Toolchain/To be discussed

What do we need to discuss at the next toolchain team meeting? Collect items here!

Urgent things

 * re-discuss the C language standard transition, re Mozilla / Anarchy / gcc-6 / icu-59

To be keyworded

 * gcc 7.2

To be stabilized

 * gcc 6.4.0 (tracker ), see also the generic gcc 6 issue tracker
 * glibc 2.25 (tracker ) - target is 2.25-r7 after some period in testing
 * binutils 2.29.1-r1 (tracker )

Other

 * glibc-2.26 and rpc / yp / nis / nis+ - work in progress
 * upgrade path to glibc-2.26 (fails right now because of circular dependencies)

Mysteries

 * Getting rid of the CFLAGS_abi and similar variables, see the discussion in