linux-kernel - [PATCH] docs: programming-languages: refresh blurb on clang support

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Message-Id: <20200929211936.580805-1-ndesaulniers@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:19:35 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: [PATCH] docs: programming-languages: refresh blurb on clang support

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@...gle.com>
---
 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
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