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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW --- - AsmMatcherEmitter's ClassInfo comparator not transitive"
   href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=17419">17419</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>AsmMatcherEmitter's ClassInfo comparator not transitive
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>new-bugs
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>new bugs
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>willdtz@gmail.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvmbugs@cs.uiuc.edu
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>Similar to the recent fix posted for the sorting predicate used in
DAGISelEmitter[1], the sorting predicate used in AsmMatcherEmitter for
ClassInfo objects is also non-transitive.

This results in unspecified sorting behavior and in particular
breaks tests relying on a particular match ordering
(possibly producing inferior assembly or other problems).

The comparison operator is in AsmMatcherEmitter.cpp:265.

Examples of lack of transitivity are:

class A subclass B, B.Kind < A.Kind.
when a class 'C' has a kind between B and A, this breaks:

A < B (A subclass B)
B < C (unrelated classes, B.Kind < C.Kind)
C < A (unrelated classes, C.Kind < A.Kind)

And a similar failure with ValueName causing the failure
instead of the Kind comparison.

I've seen both of these failures happen when emitting the AsmMatcher for X86,
I haven't tested other platforms.  These were detected while debugging building
LLVM w/an alternative C++ implementation, with the following sanity check added
to std::sort():

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for (_RandomAccessIterator cur = first; cur != last; ++cur)
  for (_RandomAccessIterator before = first; before != cur; ++before)
    assert((comp(*before, *cur) || !comp(*cur, *before)) && 
           "Bad sort predicate");
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Perhaps a preprocessing pass over the ClassInfo's that builds a numbering would
work?  A postorder traversal of the class heirarchy should provide a reasonable
such numbering, I believe, and can use Kind/ValueName as we presently do to
break ties amongst children for output that's as deterministic as what we have
today.

Regardless if someone could take a look that'd be great.  Thanks! :)

[1]
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