From: Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] docs: clarify wording in programming-language.rst
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:28:41 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260214132842.1161-1-islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com> (raw)
Clarify that the Linux kernel is written in C and improve
punctuation in the clang sentence.
Signed-off-by: Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
---
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
====================
-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=gnu11`` [gcc-c-dialect-options]_: the GNU dialect of ISO C11.
-``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported, see docs on
+``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported; see documentation on
:ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM <kbuild_llvm>`.
This dialect contains many extensions to the language [gnu-extensions]_,
--
2.43.0
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