Use assembly instead of C array literals to link the core snapshot into the VM.

runtime/bin/main.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 <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 
 #include "include/dart_api.h"
 #include "include/dart_tools_api.h"
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 #include "platform/globals.h"
 #include "platform/growable_array.h"
 #include "platform/hashmap.h"
 #include "platform/text_buffer.h"
 #if !defined(DART_PRECOMPILER)
 #include "zlib/zlib.h"
 #endif
 
 #include "vm/kernel.h"
 
+extern "C" {
+extern const uint8_t kDartVmSnapshotData[];
+extern const uint8_t kDartVmSnapshotInstructions[];
+extern const uint8_t kDartCoreIsolateSnapshotData[];
+extern const uint8_t kDartCoreIsolateSnapshotInstructions[];
+}
+
 namespace dart {
 namespace bin {
 
 // Snapshot pieces if we link in a snapshot, otherwise initialized to NULL.
-extern const uint8_t* vm_snapshot_data;
-extern const uint8_t* vm_snapshot_instructions;
-extern const uint8_t* core_isolate_snapshot_data;
-extern const uint8_t* core_isolate_snapshot_instructions;
+#if defined(DART_NO_SNAPSHOT)
+const uint8_t* vm_snapshot_data = NULL;
+const uint8_t* vm_snapshot_instructions = NULL;
+const uint8_t* core_isolate_snapshot_data = NULL;
+const uint8_t* core_isolate_snapshot_instructions = NULL;
+#else
+const uint8_t* vm_snapshot_data = kDartVmSnapshotData;
+const uint8_t* vm_snapshot_instructions = kDartVmSnapshotInstructions;
+const uint8_t* core_isolate_snapshot_data = kDartCoreIsolateSnapshotData;
+const uint8_t* core_isolate_snapshot_instructions = kDartVmSnapshotInstructions;
+#endif
 
 /**
  * Global state used to control and store generation of application snapshots
  * An application snapshot can be generated and run using the following
  * command
  *   dart --snapshot-kind=app-jit --snapshot=<app_snapshot_filename>
  *       <script_uri> [<script_options>]
  * To Run the application snapshot generated above, use :
  *   dart <app_snapshot_filename> [<script_options>]
  */
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   Platform::Exit(Process::GlobalExitCode());
 }
 
 }  // namespace bin
 }  // namespace dart
 
 int main(int argc, char** argv) {
   dart::bin::main(argc, argv);
   UNREACHABLE();
 }