Commit 47cb33cedf47 for kernel
commit 47cb33cedf47fea2026ac826babc5c8d4d447a75
Author: Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Feb 14 19:28:41 2026 +0600
docs: clarify wording in programming-language.rst
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>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260214132842.1161-1-islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst
index bc56dee6d0bc..9492f64d161f 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]_,