Introduce a flag to force program abort on type/assertion errors.

runtime/lib/errors.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/bootstrap_natives.h"
 #include "vm/exceptions.h"
 #include "vm/object_store.h"
 #include "vm/runtime_entry.h"
 #include "vm/stack_frame.h"
 
 namespace dart {
 
+DECLARE_FLAG(bool, abort_on_assertion_errors);
+
 // Allocate and throw a new AssertionError.
 // Arg0: index of the first token of the failed assertion.
 // Arg1: index of the first token after the failed assertion.
 // Return value: none, throws an exception.
 DEFINE_NATIVE_ENTRY(AssertionError_throwNew, 2) {
+  if (FLAG_abort_on_assertion_errors) {
+    Exceptions::PrintStackTraceAndAbort("an assertion failure");
+  }
+
   // No need to type check the arguments. This function can only be called
   // internally from the VM.
   intptr_t assertion_start =
       Smi::CheckedHandle(arguments->NativeArgAt(0)).Value();
   intptr_t assertion_end =
       Smi::CheckedHandle(arguments->NativeArgAt(1)).Value();
 
   const Array& args = Array::Handle(Array::New(4));
 
   DartFrameIterator iterator;
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 // Rethrow an error with a stacktrace.
 DEFINE_NATIVE_ENTRY(Async_rethrow, 2) {
   GET_NON_NULL_NATIVE_ARGUMENT(Instance, error, arguments->NativeArgAt(0));
   GET_NON_NULL_NATIVE_ARGUMENT(Instance, stacktrace, arguments->NativeArgAt(1));
   Exceptions::ReThrow(thread, error, stacktrace);
   return Object::null();
 }
 
 }  // namespace dart