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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: Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260214132842.1161-1-islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
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Programming Language
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The kernel is written in the C programming language [c-language]_.
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More precisely, the kernel is typically compiled with ``gcc`` [gcc]_
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The Linux kernel is written in the C programming language [c-language]_.
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More precisely, it is typically compiled with ``gcc`` [gcc]_
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under ``-std=gnu11`` [gcc-c-dialect-options]_: the GNU dialect of ISO C11.
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``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported, see docs on
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``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported; see documentation on
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:ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM <kbuild_llvm>`.
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This dialect contains many extensions to the language [gnu-extensions]_,

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