question: will it make sense to link against common_clang rather than load it?

[dvrogozh]

intel-graphics-compiler/IGC/OCLFE/igd_fcl_mcl/source/clang_tb.cpp

Line 603 in 4be564f

CCModule.pModule = dlopen(CCModule.pModuleName, RTLD_NOW | RTLD_DEEPBIND);

Here libigdfcl.so will dlopen("libcommon_clang.so"). Will it make sense to link against it instead?

That's probably can be reformulated as: does usage scenario exists when libigdfcl.so don't need libcommon_clang.so to work? If such case don't exist, this can vote towards linking against this library on Linux since:

1. This will make dependency explicit and simplify diagnostic in case of missing dependency
2. This will simplify the code since we will avoid the code to load/unload library, fetch symbols, check for non-null handle

[tripzero]

+1 for linking

[dvrogozh]

Done by 77e3412