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Use a guaranteed unique sort key (var_id, rev_start, rev_end) when
ordering SROM layout entries; otherwise, we see non-deterministic output
for entries with overlapping var_ids.

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Dec 19 2016, 11:14 PM

I tested this in my local WIP tree and confirm that I get the same output after each invocation.

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