[PATCH] docs: reflect equal support for gcc and clang
From: Ariful Islam Shoikot
Date: Mon Feb 23 2026 - 22:12:19 EST
Update the programming language documentation to reflect that both
gcc and clang are fully supported compilers.
Signed-off-by: Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@xxxxxxxxx>
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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 c18e307ccb56..491138ae17cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@ Programming Language
====================
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 documentation on
-:ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM <kbuild_llvm>`.
+More precisely, it is compiled with either ``gcc`` [gcc]_ or
+``clang`` [clang]_, both of which are fully supported, using
+``-std=gnu11`` [gcc-c-dialect-options]_:
+the GNU dialect of ISO C11. See
+:ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM <kbuild_llvm>` for additional details.
This dialect contains many extensions to the language [gnu-extensions]_,
and many of them are used within the kernel as a matter of course.
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