Merge a number of assertion failure fixes to the 3.0 branch.

test/mjsunit/regress/regress-1107.js

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 // Test that even if we cannot set element 0 on all the objects, we still
 // can format exception messages to some extent.
 
 Object.prototype.__defineGetter__(0, function(){});
 assertThrows("x");