[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond

Post Syndicated from daroc original https://lwn.net/Articles/1071973/

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.