From 905705a8fd432636c22476e732cf7c7ba2d6edd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:19:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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> --- Documentation/process/programming-language.rst | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst index e5f5f065dc24e..ec474a70a02fa 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 ---------- -- 2.30.2