Use patching for dart:io.

lib/io/common.dart

 // 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.
 
 // Constants used when working with native ports.
 const int _SUCCESS_RESPONSE = 0;
 const int _ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_RESPONSE = 1;
 const int _OSERROR_RESPONSE = 2;
 const int _FILE_CLOSED_RESPONSE = 3;
 
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   final String message;
 
   /**
     * Error code supplied by the operating system. Will have the value
     * [noErrorCode] if there is no error code associated with the error.
     */
   final int errorCode;
 }
 
 
-// Check if a List is a builtin VM List type. Returns true
-// if the List is a builtin VM List type and false if it is
-// a user defined List type.
-bool _isBuiltinList(List buffer) native "Common_IsBuiltinList";
-
-
 // Object for holding a buffer and an offset.
 class _BufferAndOffset {
   _BufferAndOffset(List this.buffer, int this.offset);
   List buffer;
   int offset;
 }
 
-
 // Ensure that the input List can be serialized through a native port.
 // Only builtin Lists can be serialized through. If user-defined Lists
 // get here, the contents is copied to a Uint8List. This has the added
 // benefit that it is faster to access from the C code as well.
 _BufferAndOffset _ensureFastAndSerializableBuffer(
     List buffer, int offset, int bytes) {
-  if (buffer is Uint8List || _isBuiltinList(buffer)) {
+  if (buffer is Uint8List || _BufferUtils._isBuiltinList(buffer)) {
     return new _BufferAndOffset(buffer, offset);
   }
   var newBuffer = new Uint8List(bytes);
   int j = offset;
   for (int i = 0; i < bytes; i++) {
     int value = buffer[j];
     if (value is! int) {
-      throw new FileIOException("List element is not an integer at index $j");
+      throw new ArgumentError("List element is not an integer at index $j");
     }
     newBuffer[i] = value;
     j++;
   }
   return new _BufferAndOffset(newBuffer, 0);
 }
+
+
+class _BufferUtils {
+  // Check if a List is a builtin VM List type. Returns true
+  // if the List is a builtin VM List type and false if it is
+  // a user defined List type.
+  external static bool _isBuiltinList(List buffer);

[Søren Gjesse, 2012/10/30 09:28:32]

So externals cannot be top level functions?

[Mads Ager (google), 2012/10/30 11:12:40]

At this point at least they cannot, no. I'll add a comment here as I did the
other place where I had to do this.

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