Make creation of list literal more resilient to changes in the underlying

runtime/vm/code_generator.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "vm/code_generator.h"
 
 #include "vm/assembler_macros.h"
 #include "vm/ast.h"
 #include "vm/code_patcher.h"
 #include "vm/compiler.h"
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       String::Handle(Class::Handle(function.Owner()).Name());
   OS::Print("< Exiting '%s.%s'\n",
       class_name.ToCString(), function_name.ToCString());
 }
 
 
 // Allocation of a fixed length array of given element type.
 // This runtime entry is never called for allocating a List of a generic type,
 // because a prior run time call instantiates the element type if necessary.
 // Arg0: array length.
-// Arg1: array element type.
+// Arg1: array type arguments, i.e. vector of 1 type, the element type.
 // Return value: newly allocated array of length arg0.
 DEFINE_RUNTIME_ENTRY(AllocateArray, 2) {
   ASSERT(arguments.ArgCount() == kAllocateArrayRuntimeEntry.argument_count());
   const Smi& length = Smi::CheckedHandle(arguments.ArgAt(0));
   const Array& array = Array::Handle(Array::New(length.Value()));
   arguments.SetReturn(array);
   AbstractTypeArguments& element_type =
       AbstractTypeArguments::CheckedHandle(arguments.ArgAt(1));
   // An Array is raw or takes only one type argument.
   ASSERT(element_type.IsNull() ||
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     intptr_t line, column;
     script.GetTokenLocation(token_pos, &line, &column);
     String& line_string = String::Handle(script.GetLine(line));
     OS::Print("  Function: %s\n", top_function.ToFullyQualifiedCString());
     OS::Print("  Line %"Pd": '%s'\n", line, line_string.ToCString());
   }
 }
 
 
 }  // namespace dart