diff --git a/src/Compilation.zig b/src/Compilation.zig
index 6e3a955632ab9d48a4e50231c3b82fe316253a6e..cd4794554e4edafa2a0f373ecb5e1231e48f4ba1 100644
--- a/src/Compilation.zig
+++ b/src/Compilation.zig
@@ -2350,7 +2350,12 @@ fn processOneJob(comp: *Compilation, job: Job, main_progress_node: *std.Progress
 
                 var air = module.analyzeFnBody(decl, func, sema_arena) catch |err| switch (err) {
                     error.AnalysisFail => {
-                        assert(func.state != .in_progress);
+                        if (func.state == .in_progress) {
+                            // If this decl caused the compile error, the analysis field would
+                            // be changed to indicate it was this Decl's fault. Because this
+                            // did not happen, we infer here that it was a dependency failure.
+                            func.state = .dependency_failure;
+                        }
                         return;
                     },
                     error.OutOfMemory => return error.OutOfMemory,
diff --git a/src/value.zig b/src/value.zig
index ac4f64cada233b343c030f873d17a6612ff88a76..e3949ea3c46dd5b456e49f9b42be8e5d0751b599 100644
--- a/src/value.zig
+++ b/src/value.zig
@@ -1543,6 +1543,8 @@ pub const Value = extern union {
                     hash(slice.len, Type.usize, hasher);
                 },
 
+                // For these, hash them as hash of a pointer to the decl,
+                // combined with a hash of the byte offset from the decl.
                 .elem_ptr => @panic("TODO: Implement more pointer hashing cases"),
                 .field_ptr => @panic("TODO: Implement more pointer hashing cases"),
                 .eu_payload_ptr => @panic("TODO: Implement more pointer hashing cases"),