Reland "Merge more Kernel infrastructure from kernel_sdk SDK fork."

runtime/lib/object_patch.dart

 // 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.
 
 @patch class Object {
 
   // The VM has its own implementation of equals.
-  bool operator ==(other) native "Object_equals";
+  @patch bool operator ==(other) native "Object_equals";
 
   // Helpers used to implement hashCode. If a hashCode is used, we remember it
   // in a weak table in the VM. A new hashCode value is calculated using a
   // number generator.
   static final _hashCodeRnd = new Random();
 
   static _getHash(obj) native "Object_getHash";
   static _setHash(obj, hash) native "Object_setHash";
 
   // Shared static implentation for hashCode and _identityHashCode.
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   _as(instantiator_type_arguments, type) native "Object_as";
 
   static _symbolMapToStringMap(Map<Symbol, dynamic> map) {
     var result = new Map<String, dynamic>();
     map.forEach((Symbol key, value) {
       result[internal.Symbol.getName(key)] = value;
     });
     return result;
   }
 }