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diff --git a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst index e5f5f065dc24..5fc9160ca1fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst @@ -5,15 +5,16 @@ 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). +under ``-std=gnu11`` [gcc-c-dialect-options]_: the GNU dialect of ISO C11. +``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 ---------- |