diff --git a/compiler/optimizing/load_store_analysis.h b/compiler/optimizing/load_store_analysis.h
index e815727..5fda8df 100644
--- a/compiler/optimizing/load_store_analysis.h
+++ b/compiler/optimizing/load_store_analysis.h
@@ -417,20 +417,7 @@
     }
   }
 
- private:
-  // An allocation cannot alias with a name which already exists at the point
-  // of the allocation, such as a parameter or a load happening before the allocation.
-  bool MayAliasWithPreexistenceChecking(ReferenceInfo* ref_info1, ReferenceInfo* ref_info2) const {
-    if (ref_info1->GetReference()->IsNewInstance() || ref_info1->GetReference()->IsNewArray()) {
-      // Any reference that can alias with the allocation must appear after it in the block/in
-      // the block's successors. In reverse post order, those instructions will be visited after
-      // the allocation.
-      return ref_info2->GetPosition() >= ref_info1->GetPosition();
-    }
-    return true;
-  }
-
-  bool CanReferencesAlias(ReferenceInfo* ref_info1, ReferenceInfo* ref_info2) const {
+  static bool CanReferencesAlias(ReferenceInfo* ref_info1, ReferenceInfo* ref_info2) {
     if (ref_info1 == ref_info2) {
       return true;
     } else if (ref_info1->IsSingleton()) {
@@ -444,6 +431,19 @@
     return true;
   }
 
+ private:
+  // An allocation cannot alias with a name which already exists at the point
+  // of the allocation, such as a parameter or a load happening before the allocation.
+  static bool MayAliasWithPreexistenceChecking(ReferenceInfo* ref_info1, ReferenceInfo* ref_info2) {
+    if (ref_info1->GetReference()->IsNewInstance() || ref_info1->GetReference()->IsNewArray()) {
+      // Any reference that can alias with the allocation must appear after it in the block/in
+      // the block's successors. In reverse post order, those instructions will be visited after
+      // the allocation.
+      return ref_info2->GetPosition() >= ref_info1->GetPosition();
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
   bool CanArrayElementsAlias(const HInstruction* idx1,
                              const size_t vector_length1,
                              const HInstruction* idx2,