Fix bug that CompareAtoms::compare is not transitive.
This patch fixes a bug in r190608. The results of a comparison function passed to std::sort must be transitive, which is, if a < b and b < c, and if a != b, a < c must be also true. CompareAtoms::compare did not actually guarantee the transitivity. As a result the sort results were sometimes just wrong. Consider there are three atoms, X, Y, and Z, whose file ordinals are 1, 2, 3, respectively. Z has a property "layout-after X". In this case, all the following conditionals become true: X < Y because X's ordinal is less than Y's Y < Z because Y's ordinal is less than Z's Z < X because of the layout-after relationship This is not of course transitive. The reason why this happened is because we used follow-on relationships for comparison if two atoms falls in the same follow-on chain, but we used each atom's properties if they did not. This patch fixes the issue by using follow-on root atoms for comparison to get consistent results. Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1980 llvm-svn: 193029
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