[PATCH] docs: programming-languages: refresh blurb on clang support
From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Tue Sep 29 2020 - 17:19:46 EST
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@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 e5f5f065dc24..63af142d64ec 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
+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.
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