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Signed-off-by: Ariful Islam Shoikot --- Documentation/process/programming-language.rst | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst index c18e307ccb56..491138ae17cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst @@ -4,10 +4,11 @@ Programming Language ==================== 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 documentation on -:ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM `. +More precisely, it is compiled with either ``gcc`` [gcc]_ or +``clang`` [clang]_, both of which are fully supported, using +``-std=gnu11`` [gcc-c-dialect-options]_: +the GNU dialect of ISO C11. See +:ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM ` for additional details. This dialect contains many extensions to the language [gnu-extensions]_, and many of them are used within the kernel as a matter of course. -- 2.43.0