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From: Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] docs: clarify gcc and clang support wording
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:52:49 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260224075250.15375-1-islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260224045937.GA1762976@ZenIV>

Avoid stating that both are "fully supported" due to
variance between architecture.

Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
---
 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..25ec1c99e2ae 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 <kbuild_llvm>`.
+More precisely, it is compiled with either ``gcc`` [gcc]_ or
+``clang`` [clang]_, both of which are supported, using
+``-std=gnu11`` [gcc-c-dialect-options]_:
+the GNU dialect of ISO C11. See
+:ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM <kbuild_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


      reply	other threads:[~2026-02-24  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-24  3:09 [PATCH] docs: reflect equal support for gcc and clang Ariful Islam Shoikot
2026-02-24  4:59 ` Al Viro
2026-02-24  7:52   ` Ariful Islam Shoikot [this message]

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