Follow-up to https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/11416144/.

sdk/lib/_internal/compiler/implementation/ssa/builder.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.
 
 part of ssa;
 
 /**
  * A special element for the extra parameter taken by intercepted
  * methods. We need to override [Element.computeType] because our
  * optimizers may look at its declared type.
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       existingArguments.add(parameter.name.slowToString());
     });
     generateThrowNoSuchMethod(diagnosticNode,
                               function.name.slowToString(),
                               argumentNodes: argumentNodes,
                               existingArguments: existingArguments);
   }
 
   visitNewExpression(NewExpression node) {
     Element element = elements[node.send];
-    if (!Elements.isErroneousElement(element) &&
-        !Elements.isMalformedElement(element)) {
+    if (!Elements.isUnresolved(element)) {
       FunctionElement function = element;
       element = function.redirectionTarget;
     }
     if (Elements.isErroneousElement(element)) {
       ErroneousElement error = element;
       if (error.messageKind == MessageKind.CANNOT_FIND_CONSTRUCTOR) {
         generateThrowNoSuchMethod(node.send,
                                   getTargetName(error, 'constructor'),
                                   argumentNodes: node.send.arguments);
       } else if (error.messageKind == MessageKind.CANNOT_RESOLVE) {
         Message message = error.messageKind.message(error.messageArguments);
         generateRuntimeError(node.send, message.toString());
       } else {
         compiler.internalError('unexpected unresolved constructor call',
                                node: node);
       }
     } else if (node.isConst()) {
       // TODO(karlklose): add type representation
       ConstantHandler handler = compiler.constantHandler;
       Constant constant = handler.compileNodeWithDefinitions(node, elements);
       stack.add(graph.addConstant(constant));
-    } else if (Elements.isMalformedElement(element)) {
-      Message message =
-          MessageKind.TYPE_VARIABLE_WITHIN_STATIC_MEMBER.message([element]);
-      generateRuntimeError(node.send, message.toString());
     } else {
-      visitNewSend(node.send, elements.getType(node));
+      DartType dartType = elements.getType(node);
+      if (dartType.kind == TypeKind.MALFORMED_TYPE &&
+          compiler.enableTypeAssertions) {
+        Message message = MessageKind.MALFORMED_TYPE_REFERENCE.message([node]);
+        generateRuntimeError(node.send, message.toString());
+      } else {
+        visitNewSend(node.send, dartType);
+      }
     }
   }
 
   visitSendSet(SendSet node) {
     Element element = elements[node];
     if (!Elements.isUnresolved(element) && element.impliesType()) {
       Identifier selector = node.selector;
       generateThrowNoSuchMethod(node, selector.source.slowToString(),
                                 argumentNodes: node.arguments);
       return;
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           new HSubGraphBlockInformation(elseBranch.graph));
 
     HBasicBlock conditionStartBlock = conditionBranch.block;
     conditionStartBlock.setBlockFlow(info, joinBlock);
     SubGraph conditionGraph = conditionBranch.graph;
     HIf branch = conditionGraph.end.last;
     assert(branch is HIf);
     branch.blockInformation = conditionStartBlock.blockFlow;
   }
 }