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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-02-15 10:47:59 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-02-15 10:47:59 -0800 |
| commit | 26a4cfaff82a2dcb810f6bfd5f4842f9b6046c8a (patch) | |
| tree | dbb4b05289abd8b02fd6c4b69698201146dc3472 /Documentation/process/programming-language.rst | |
| parent | 011af61b9f7c9104eae7ad9951456330d950c771 (diff) | |
| parent | e1e828a1e9a79af76a7cdc271e0a506e496c2eaa (diff) | |
Merge tag 'docs-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of small, late-arriving documentation fixes"
* tag 'docs-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux:
docs: toshiba_haps: fix grammar error in SSD warning
Docs/mm: fix typos and grammar in page_tables.rst
Docs/core-api: fix typos in rbtree.rst
docs: clarify wording in programming-language.rst
docs: process: maintainer-pgp-guide: update kernel.org docs link
docs: kdoc_parser: allow __exit in function prototypes
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst index f39d1d3dd9ce..c18e307ccb56 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]_, |