> On Jan 31, 2018, at 4:33 PM, Wilco Dijkstra <wilco.dijks...@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> Richard Sandiford wrote:
> 
>> This was the original intent, but was changed in r213708.  TBH I'm not
>> sure what the second hunk in that revision fixed, since model_index is
>> supposed to return an index greater than all valid indices when passed
>> an instruction outside the current block.  Maxim, do you remember?
> 
> See https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00932.html, it says:
> 
> "The second one is to account for the fact that model_index() of two 
> instructions
> is meaningful only when both instructions are in the current basic block."
> 
> Unless something has changed, I'm assuming that's still true today. Maybe
> the underlying idea was to allow interleaving of instructions outside the
> current block,

Yes.

> but that isn't feasible if you want a well-defined sort ordering.

Agree.

Wilco, your patch looks good.  Thanks for fixing this!

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Maxim Kuvyrkov
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