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...t lost and separated in long option lists, it could be frustrating. Using a list, improves readability of scripts. As we said, existing flags would still be supported. > what problem are we solving by putting "target" in the flag name? We already have e.g. -march; it's not -mtarget-arch. "--offload-arch", maybe? There are no problems solved with the word "target". The genesis for me of this name is the association with OpenMP target pragmas used for offloading. target is a noun and offload is a verb. We desire a list of objects that end in s . I a...

There are at least four clang frontends for offloading to accelerators: 1 Cuda clang 2 OpenMP 3 HCC and 4 OpenCL. These frontends will want to embed object code for multiple offload targets into a single application binary to provide portability across different subarchitectures (e.g. sm_35, sm_50) and across different architectures (e.g nvptx64,amdgcn). Problem: Different frontends