[clang][Driver][SPIR-V] Allow linking IR using llvm-link (#169572) SPIR-V does not have a production-grade linker so it is often necessary to stay in LLVM-IR as long as possible and only convert to SPIR-V at the very end. As such, it is common that we want to create a BC library that is linked into a user program (motivating example here is the OpenMP device RTL). We only convert to SPIR-V at the very end when we have a fully linked program. Other targets can achieve a similar goal by using LTO to get a linked-BC file, but the SPIR-V linker does not support LTO, so we have no way to do it with `clang`. We can do it with `llvm-link` directly, but my understanding is that it is not intended to be directly called in production workflows and does not fit well into code that supports multiple targets. Extend the existing behavior for `HIP` that allows `-emit-llvm` without `-c`. --------- Signed-off-by: Nick Sarnie <nick.sarnie@intel.com>
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