Eliminate 99% of allocated ExceptionHandler objects

runtime/vm/code_descriptors.h

Index: runtime/vm/code_descriptors.h
===================================================================
--- runtime/vm/code_descriptors.h	(revision 40287)
+++ runtime/vm/code_descriptors.h	(working copy)
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 
 class StackmapTableBuilder : public ZoneAllocated {
  public:
-  explicit StackmapTableBuilder()

[hausner, 2014/09/15 23:33:16]

Unrelated to this CL. gcl upload complained about the explicit on a zero
parameter constructor. Interestingly, this line has been in the code sind
revision 11000 or so.

[srdjan, 2014/09/15 23:47:14]

gcl and its rules/tools get also occasionally updated, I guess.

+  StackmapTableBuilder()
       : stack_map_(Stackmap::ZoneHandle()),
         list_(GrowableObjectArray::ZoneHandle(
             GrowableObjectArray::New(Heap::kOld))) { }
@@ -162,6 +162,9 @@
 
   RawExceptionHandlers* FinalizeExceptionHandlers(uword entry_point) {
     intptr_t num_handlers = Length();
+    if (num_handlers == 0) {
+      return Object::empty_exception_handlers().raw();
+    }
     const ExceptionHandlers& handlers =
         ExceptionHandlers::Handle(ExceptionHandlers::New(num_handlers));
     for (intptr_t i = 0; i < num_handlers; i++) {