yaxunl added a comment.

In D101630#2799409 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D101630#2799409>, @tra wrote:

> In D101630#2798975 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D101630#2798975>, @yaxunl wrote:
>
>> For sure we will need -fgpu-bundle-device-output to control bundling of 
>> intermediate files. Then adding -emit-gpu-object and -emit-gpu-bundle may be 
>> redundant and can cause confusion. What if users specify `-c 
>> -fgpu-bundle-device-output -emit-gpu-object` or `-c 
>> -fno-gpu-bundle-device-output -emit-gpu-bundle`? To me a single option 
>> -fgpu-bundle-device-output to control all device output seems cleaner.
>
> The idea is to use `-emit-gpu-object` and `-emit-gpu-bundle` instead of the  
> `-f[no-]gpu-bundle-device-output`. Otherwise they'd do exactly the same thing.
>
> I think `-emit-gpu-{object,bundle}` has a minor edge over 
> `-f[no-]gpu-bundle-device-output` as it's similar to other -emit options for 
> controlling clang compilation phases (and that's what we want to do here), 
> while `-f` options are usually for tweaking code generation.

But how do we control emitting LLVM IR with or without bundle? `-emit-llvm 
-emit-gpu-object` or `-emit-llvm -emit-gpu-bundle`? `-emit-*` is usually for 
specifying a specific file type.


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