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| author | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2020-12-11 17:47:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2020-12-11 17:47:55 +0000 |
| commit | 031616c434db05ce766f76c62865f55698e0924f (patch) | |
| tree | 7f29aa1ff3e7b51a8058cd570fb785c6e769b245 /Documentation/process/programming-language.rst | |
| parent | 064841ccfc49b2315dc0b797239862d3a343aa07 (diff) | |
| parent | 85a7555575a0e48f9b73db310d0d762a08a46d63 (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'asoc/for-5.10' into asoc-linus
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst index e5f5f065dc24..ec474a70a02f 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst @@ -6,14 +6,15 @@ Programming Language The kernel is written in the C programming language [c-language]_. More precisely, the kernel is typically compiled with ``gcc`` [gcc]_ under ``-std=gnu89`` [gcc-c-dialect-options]_: the GNU dialect of ISO C90 -(including some C99 features). +(including some C99 features). ``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported, see +docs on :ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM <kbuild_llvm>`. This dialect contains many extensions to the language [gnu-extensions]_, and many of them are used within the kernel as a matter of course. -There is some support for compiling the kernel with ``clang`` [clang]_ -and ``icc`` [icc]_ for several of the architectures, although at the time -of writing it is not completed, requiring third-party patches. +There is some support for compiling the kernel with ``icc`` [icc]_ for several +of the architectures, although at the time of writing it is not completed, +requiring third-party patches. Attributes ---------- |