diff --git a/include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineBasicBlock.h b/include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineBasicBlock.h
index b47108a..09cca93 100644
--- a/include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineBasicBlock.h
+++ b/include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineBasicBlock.h
@@ -234,6 +234,13 @@
   /// block.
   bool isSuccessor(MachineBasicBlock *MBB) const;
 
+  /// isLayoutSuccessor - Return true if the specified MBB will be emitted
+  /// immediately after this block, such that if this block exits by
+  /// falling through, control will transfer to the specified MBB. Note
+  /// that MBB need not be a successor at all, for example if this block
+  /// ends with an unconditional branch to some other block.
+  bool isLayoutSuccessor(MachineBasicBlock *MBB) const;
+
   /// getFirstTerminator - returns an iterator to the first terminator
   /// instruction of this basic block. If a terminator does not exist,
   /// it returns end()
diff --git a/lib/CodeGen/MachineBasicBlock.cpp b/lib/CodeGen/MachineBasicBlock.cpp
index 0320aff..bac0a6c 100644
--- a/lib/CodeGen/MachineBasicBlock.cpp
+++ b/lib/CodeGen/MachineBasicBlock.cpp
@@ -254,6 +254,11 @@
   return I != Successors.end();
 }
 
+bool MachineBasicBlock::isLayoutSuccessor(MachineBasicBlock *MBB) const {
+  MachineFunction::const_iterator I(this);
+  return next(I) == MachineFunction::const_iterator(MBB);
+}
+
 /// removeFromParent - This method unlinks 'this' from the containing function,
 /// and returns it, but does not delete it.
 MachineBasicBlock *MachineBasicBlock::removeFromParent() {