August 2016 GNU Toolchain Update

The Red Hat Developer's blog looksat the latest updates to the GNU toolchain. GCC 6.2 and GDB 7.11.1 aremostly bug-fix releases, but GCC contains a few enhancements for SPARCusers and there's a look at what's coming in GDB 7.12. Glibc 2.24 containsmany new features and enhancements. "A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials."