[PATCH] docs: clarify wording in programming-language.rst

From: Ariful Islam Shoikot

Date: Sat Feb 14 2026 - 08:29:43 EST


Clarify that the Linux kernel is written in C and improve
punctuation in the clang sentence.

Signed-off-by: Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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]_,
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