diff --git a/test/459-dead-phi/expected.txt b/test/459-dead-phi/expected.txt
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+0.0
diff --git a/test/459-dead-phi/info.txt b/test/459-dead-phi/info.txt
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+Regression test for optimizing when it is building the SSA form.
diff --git a/test/459-dead-phi/smali/EquivalentPhi.smali b/test/459-dead-phi/smali/EquivalentPhi.smali
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+# Copyright (C) 2015 The Android Open Source Project
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+.class public LEquivalentPhi;
+
+.super Ljava/lang/Object;
+
+.method public static equivalentPhi([F)F
+   .registers 5
+   const/4 v0, 0x0
+   # aget is initally expected to be an int, but will
+   # rightly become a float after type propagation.
+   aget v1, p0, v0
+   move v2, v1
+   if-eq v0, v0, :else
+   move v2, v0
+   :else
+   # v2 will be a phi with (int, int) as input
+   move v3, v2
+   if-eq v0, v0, :else2
+   move v3, v0
+   # v3 will be a phi with (int, int) as input.
+   : else2
+   # This instruction will lead to creating a phi equivalent
+   # for v3 with float type, which in turn will lead to creating
+   # a phi equivalent for v2 of type float. We used to forget to
+   # delete the old phi, which ends up having incompatible input
+   # types.
+   return v3
+.end method
diff --git a/test/459-dead-phi/src/Main.java b/test/459-dead-phi/src/Main.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+
+public class Main {
+
+  // Workaround for b/18051191.
+  class InnerClass {}
+
+  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+    Class<?> c = Class.forName("EquivalentPhi");
+    Method m = c.getMethod("equivalentPhi", float[].class);
+    System.out.println(m.invoke(null, new float[] { 0.0f }));
+  }
+}