GCC 16.1 marks a significant milestone with its first release featuring BPF support, bringing it closer to feature parity with LLVM. The development team presented updates at LSFMM+BPF 2026, highlighting progress across the GNU toolchain including binutils, DejaGNU, and GNU poke. The focus is now on resolving remaining issues to pass the kernel's BPF self-tests.
Background
BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) is a technology in the Linux kernel that allows for safe execution of bytecode in the kernel space, widely used for networking, tracing, and security applications. GCC and LLVM are the two major compiler toolchains supporting BPF program compilation.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Jun 2, 2026 at 07:53 PM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10