Commit 47cb33ce authored by Ariful Islam Shoikot's avatar Ariful Islam Shoikot Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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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: default avatarAriful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Programming Language

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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]_,