question: can we initialize only those LLVM features which we need?

[dvrogozh]

opencl-clang/common_clang.cpp

Line 106 in a1aed01

llvm::InitializeAllTargets();

This code attempts to initialize everything in LLVM. As an outcome we are forced to link against almost all the LLVM libraries - see #44 (and a fix in pr #45). Is that possible to reduce the initialization scope? For example, does that make sense to initialize Sparc and other platform parsers?

[AlexeySachkov]

We would like to share this library within LLVM community and from this point of view we cannot just initialize x86 only - this library potentially can be used on different architectures or for cross-compilation.

We could also remove this initialization at all, but in this case we will lose possibility to generate native assembly code instead of LLVM IR.

Since linking issues described in #46 and #44 were resolved, this shouldn't be a problem anymore. So, I would like to close this as won't fix.