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Signed-off-by: Ariful Islam Shoikot --- Documentation/process/programming-language.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file 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 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 -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=3Dgnu11`` [gcc-c-dialect-options]_: the GNU dialect of ISO C1= 1. -``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported, see docs on +``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported; see documentation on :ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM `. =20 This dialect contains many extensions to the language [gnu-extensions]_, --=20 2.43.0