From: Ariful Islam Shoikot Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:28:41 +0000 (+0600) Subject: docs: clarify wording in programming-language.rst X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=47cb33cedf47fea2026ac826babc5c8d4d447a75;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git 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 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20260214132842.1161-1-islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com> --- 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 `. This dialect contains many extensions to the language [gnu-extensions]_,