From: Nick Desaulniers Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:19:35 +0000 (-0700) Subject: docs: programming-languages: refresh blurb on clang support X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.10.0-12.13~1749^2~3 X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=905705a8fd432636c22476e732cf7c7ba2d6edd7;p=mirror_ubuntu-hirsute-kernel.git 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 Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor 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 --- 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 `. 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 ----------