On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 02:19:35PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > 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> > --- Modulo Randy's nit: Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> > 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. > > Attributes > ---------- > -- > 2.28.0.709.gb0816b6eb0-goog >
