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| author |   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> | 2020-09-29 14:19:35 -0700 |
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| committer |   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2020-10-05 09:44:11 -0600 |
| commit | 905705a8fd432636c22476e732cf7c7ba2d6edd7 (patch) | |
| tree | cde4e1136a3bbbb4751bc84fcc3a67ef99161f3a /Documentation/process | |
| parent | Documentation: kvm: fix a typo (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-905705a8fd432636c22476e732cf7c7ba2d6edd7.tar.xz linux-dev-905705a8fd432636c22476e732cf7c7ba2d6edd7.zip | |
docs: programming-languages: refresh blurb on clang support
Building the kernel with Clang doesn't rely on third party patches, and
has not for a few years now.
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200929211936.580805-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
[jc: Took out duplicated "docs" pointed out by Randy]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/process')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/programming-language.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
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 ---------- |