- Reorder the priority of flags in the test harness when passed to the VM:

runtime/vm/parser.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/parser.h"
 
 #include "lib/invocation_mirror.h"
 #include "platform/utils.h"
 #include "vm/ast_transformer.h"
 #include "vm/bootstrap.h"
@@ skipping 9094 matching lines @@
   }
   return condition;
 }
 
 
 AstNode* Parser::ParseAssertStatement() {
   TRACE_PARSER("ParseAssertStatement");
   ConsumeToken();  // Consume assert keyword.
   ExpectToken(Token::kLPAREN);
   const intptr_t condition_pos = TokenPos();
-  if (!I->flags().asserts() && !I->flags().type_checks()) {
+  if (!I->flags().asserts()) {
     SkipExpr();
     ExpectToken(Token::kRPAREN);
     return NULL;
   }
   AstNode* condition = ParseAwaitableExpr(kAllowConst, kConsumeCascades, NULL);
   const intptr_t condition_end = TokenPos();
   ExpectToken(Token::kRPAREN);
   condition = InsertClosureCallNodes(condition);
   condition = new(Z) UnaryOpNode(condition_pos, Token::kNOT, condition);
   AstNode* assert_throw = MakeAssertCall(condition_pos, condition_end);
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 void Parser::SkipQualIdent() {
   ASSERT(IsIdentifier());
   ConsumeToken();
   if (CurrentToken() == Token::kPERIOD) {
     ConsumeToken();  // Consume the kPERIOD token.
     ExpectIdentifier("identifier expected after '.'");
   }
 }
 
 }  // namespace dart