diff --git a/include/llvm-c/Initialization.h b/include/llvm-c/Initialization.h
index 775af4fce1f..01dbeb6cdf7 100644
--- a/include/llvm-c/Initialization.h
+++ b/include/llvm-c/Initialization.h
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
+void LLVMInitializeCore(LLVMPassRegistryRef R);
 void LLVMInitializeTransformUtils(LLVMPassRegistryRef R);
 void LLVMInitializeScalarOpts(LLVMPassRegistryRef R);
 void LLVMInitializeIPO(LLVMPassRegistryRef R);
diff --git a/include/llvm/InitializePasses.h b/include/llvm/InitializePasses.h
index 62d0574b9bc..37351997761 100644
--- a/include/llvm/InitializePasses.h
+++ b/include/llvm/InitializePasses.h
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ namespace llvm {
 
 class PassRegistry;
 
+/// initializeCore - Initialize all passes linked into the 
+/// TransformUtils library.
+void initializeCore(PassRegistry&);
+
 /// initializeTransformUtils - Initialize all passes linked into the 
 /// TransformUtils library.
 void initializeTransformUtils(PassRegistry&);
diff --git a/lib/VMCore/Core.cpp b/lib/VMCore/Core.cpp
index 2b1469341af..c5940d3423f 100644
--- a/lib/VMCore/Core.cpp
+++ b/lib/VMCore/Core.cpp
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 //
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 //
-// This file implements the C bindings for libLLVMCore.a, which implements
-// the LLVM intermediate representation.
+// This file implements the common infrastructure (including the C bindings)
+// for libLLVMCore.a, which implements the LLVM intermediate representation.
 //
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
@@ -34,6 +34,18 @@
 
 using namespace llvm;
 
+void llvm::initializeCore(PassRegistry &Registry) {
+  initializeDominatorTreePass(Registry);
+  initializeDominanceFrontierPass(Registry);
+  initializePrintModulePassPass(Registry);
+  initializePrintFunctionPassPass(Registry);
+  initializeVerifierPass(Registry);
+  initializePreVerifierPass(Registry);
+}
+
+void LLVMInitializeCore(LLVMPassRegistryRef R) {
+  initializeCore(*unwrap(R));
+}
 
 /*===-- Error handling ----------------------------------------------------===*/