diff --git a/llvm/include/llvm/Assembly/Writer.h b/llvm/include/llvm/Assembly/Writer.h
index da247f6b51e2..0fbb695a63d0 100644
--- a/llvm/include/llvm/Assembly/Writer.h
+++ b/llvm/include/llvm/Assembly/Writer.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ class Module;
 class Method;
 class BasicBlock;
 class Instruction;
+class SlotCalculator;
 
 // The only interface defined by this file... convert the internal 
 // representation of an object into an ascii bytestream that the parser can 
@@ -34,6 +35,14 @@ void WriteToAssembly(const BasicBlock  *BB, ostream &o);
 void WriteToAssembly(const Instruction *In, ostream &o);
 void WriteToAssembly(const ConstPoolVal *V, ostream &o);
 
+// WriteAsOperand - Write the name of the specified value out to the specified
+// ostream.  This can be useful when you just want to print int %reg126, not the
+// whole instruction that generated it.
+//
+ostream &WriteAsOperand(ostream &o, const Value *V, bool PrintType = true,
+                       	bool PrintName = true, SlotCalculator *Table = 0);
+
+
 // WriteToVCG - Dump the specified structure to a VCG file.  If method is
 // dumped, then the file named is created.  If a module is to be written, a
 // family of files with a common base name is created, with a method name