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

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Message-ID: <20200930162157.GA236767@ubuntu-m3-large-x86>
Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:21:57 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: programming-languages: refresh blurb on clang
 support

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@...gle.com>
> ---

Modulo Randy's nit:

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.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
>  ----------
> -- 
> 2.28.0.709.gb0816b6eb0-goog
>