Prevent expensive and unnecessary error formatting in the case a bound check is

runtime/vm/object.h

 // 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.
 
 #ifndef VM_OBJECT_H_
 #define VM_OBJECT_H_
 
 #include "include/dart_api.h"
 #include "platform/assert.h"
 #include "platform/utils.h"
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   virtual bool IsResolved() const { return true; }
   virtual bool HasResolvedTypeClass() const { return false; }
   RawClass* parameterized_class() const {
     return raw_ptr()->parameterized_class_;
   }
   RawString* name() const { return raw_ptr()->name_; }
   intptr_t index() const { return raw_ptr()->index_; }
   void set_index(intptr_t value) const;
   RawAbstractType* bound() const { return raw_ptr()->bound_; }
   void set_bound(const AbstractType& value) const;
-  void CheckBound(const AbstractType& bounded_type,
+  bool CheckBound(const AbstractType& bounded_type,

[srdjan, 2013/04/04 20:12:52]

Please document what result means (true/false).

[regis, 2013/04/04 20:24:32]

Done.

                   const AbstractType& upper_bound,
                   Error* malformed_error) const;
   virtual intptr_t token_pos() const { return raw_ptr()->token_pos_; }
   virtual bool IsInstantiated() const { return false; }
   virtual bool Equals(const Instance& other) const;
   virtual RawAbstractType* InstantiateFrom(
       const AbstractTypeArguments& instantiator_type_arguments,
       Error* malformed_error) const;
   virtual RawAbstractType* Canonicalize() const { return raw(); }
 
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 RawObject* MegamorphicCache::GetTargetFunction(const Array& array,
                                                intptr_t index) {
   return array.At((index * kEntryLength) + kTargetFunctionIndex);
 }
 
 }  // namespace dart
 
 #endif  // VM_OBJECT_H_