Extend assembler with ability to produce comments for the generated code.

runtime/vm/assembler_ia32.cc

Index: runtime/vm/assembler_ia32.cc
diff --git a/runtime/vm/assembler_ia32.cc b/runtime/vm/assembler_ia32.cc
index 2197700ca71fb04be420f8e257d7433808172a5b..a62ce8114255ea45efa66d726cbc84bf47408c1b 100644
--- a/runtime/vm/assembler_ia32.cc
+++ b/runtime/vm/assembler_ia32.cc
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 namespace dart {
 
 DEFINE_FLAG(bool, print_stop_message, true, "Print stop message.");
+DEFINE_FLAG(bool, code_comments, false,
+            "Include comments into code and disassembly");
 
 
 class DirectCallRelocation : public AssemblerFixup {
@@ -1559,6 +1561,27 @@ void Assembler::EmitGenericShift(int rm,
   EmitOperand(rm, Operand(operand));
 }
 
+
+void Assembler::Comment(const char* comment) {
+  if (FLAG_code_comments) {
+    comments_.Add(new CodeComment(buffer_.GetPosition(),
+                                  String::Handle(String::New(comment))));
+  }
+}
+
+
+const Code::Comments& Assembler::GetCodeComments() const {
+  Code::Comments& comments = Code::Comments::New(comments_.length());
+
+  for (intptr_t i = 0; i < comments_.length(); i++) {
+    comments.SetPCOffsetAt(i, comments_[i]->pc_offset());
+    comments.SetCommentAt(i, comments_[i]->comment());
+  }
+
+  return comments;
+}
+
+
 }  // namespace dart
 
 #endif  // defined TARGET_ARCH_IA32