Do not copy type parameter bound from declaration to reference, since we are

runtime/vm/object.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/object.h"
 
 #include "include/dart_api.h"
 #include "platform/assert.h"
 #include "vm/assembler.h"
 #include "vm/bigint_operations.h"
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 // Return a TypeParameter if the type_name is a type parameter of this class.
 // Return null otherwise.
 RawTypeParameter* Class::LookupTypeParameter(const String& type_name,
                                              intptr_t token_pos) const {
   ASSERT(!type_name.IsNull());
   const TypeArguments& type_params = TypeArguments::Handle(type_parameters());
   if (!type_params.IsNull()) {
     intptr_t num_type_params = type_params.Length();
     TypeParameter& type_param = TypeParameter::Handle();
     String& type_param_name = String::Handle();
-    AbstractType& bound = AbstractType::Handle();
+    // TODO(regis): We do not copy the bound (= type_param.bound()), since
+    // we are not able to finalize the bounds of type parameter references
+    // without getting into cycles. Revisit.
+    const AbstractType& bound = AbstractType::Handle(
+        Isolate::Current()->object_store()->object_type());
     for (intptr_t i = 0; i < num_type_params; i++) {
       type_param ^= type_params.TypeAt(i);
       type_param_name = type_param.name();
       if (type_param_name.Equals(type_name)) {
         intptr_t index = type_param.index();
-        bound = type_param.bound();
         // Create a non-finalized new TypeParameter with the given token_pos.
         if (type_param.IsFinalized()) {
           // The index was adjusted during finalization. Revert.
           index -= NumTypeArguments() - num_type_params;
         } else {
           ASSERT(type_param.index() == i);
         }
         return TypeParameter::New(*this, index, type_name, bound, token_pos);
       }
     }
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   }
   return result.raw();
 }
 
 
 const char* WeakProperty::ToCString() const {
   return "_WeakProperty";
 }
 
 }  // namespace dart