Fixes crashes in VM isolate shutdown.

runtime/vm/dart.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2013, 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/dart.h"
 
 #include "vm/code_observers.h"
 #include "vm/cpu.h"
 #include "vm/dart_api_state.h"
 #include "vm/dart_entry.h"
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     Dart_IsolateFlags api_flags;
     vm_flags.CopyTo(&api_flags);
     vm_isolate_ = Isolate::Init("vm-isolate", api_flags, is_vm_isolate);
 
     StackZone zone(vm_isolate_);
     HandleScope handle_scope(vm_isolate_);
     Heap::Init(vm_isolate_,
                0,  // New gen size 0; VM isolate should only allocate in old.
                FLAG_old_gen_heap_size * MBInWords,
                FLAG_external_max_size * MBInWords);
+    Object::InitNull(vm_isolate_);
     ObjectStore::Init(vm_isolate_);
     TargetCPUFeatures::InitOnce();
     Object::InitOnce(vm_isolate_);
     ArgumentsDescriptor::InitOnce();
     StubCode::InitOnce();
     // Now that the needed stub has been generated, set the stack limit.
     vm_isolate_->InitializeStackLimit();
     if (vm_isolate_snapshot != NULL) {
       const Snapshot* snapshot = Snapshot::SetupFromBuffer(vm_isolate_snapshot);
       if (snapshot == NULL) {
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   return predefined_handles_->handles_.AllocateScopedHandle();
 }
 
 
 bool Dart::IsReadOnlyHandle(uword address) {
   ASSERT(predefined_handles_ != NULL);
   return predefined_handles_->handles_.IsValidScopedHandle(address);
 }
 
 }  // namespace dart