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| author | Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com> | 2026-02-14 16:28:41 +0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2026-02-14 20:10:07 +0300 |
| commit | 47cb33cedf47fea2026ac826babc5c8d4d447a75 (patch) | |
| tree | ce22e5401af2675855e4a72d1d978cea189dc23e | |
| parent | 6c5c07bc85890a8eadcad484d9bbaa239ca8e623 (diff) | |
| download | linux-47cb33cedf47fea2026ac826babc5c8d4d447a75.tar.xz | |
docs: clarify wording in programming-language.rst
Clarify that the Linux kernel is written in C and improve
punctuation in the clang sentence.
Signed-off-by: Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260214132842.1161-1-islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/programming-language.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst index bc56dee6d0bc..9492f64d161f 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ Programming Language ==================== -The kernel is written in the C programming language [c-language]_. -More precisely, the kernel is typically compiled with ``gcc`` [gcc]_ +The Linux kernel is written in the C programming language [c-language]_. +More precisely, it is typically compiled with ``gcc`` [gcc]_ under ``-std=gnu11`` [gcc-c-dialect-options]_: the GNU dialect of ISO C11. -``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported, see docs on +``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported; see documentation on :ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM <kbuild_llvm>`. This dialect contains many extensions to the language [gnu-extensions]_, |