Add support for big integers to the native message format

runtime/vm/raw_object_snapshot.cc

Index: runtime/vm/raw_object_snapshot.cc
diff --git a/runtime/vm/raw_object_snapshot.cc b/runtime/vm/raw_object_snapshot.cc
index 7b515c5742bb93746fc763cf0a723c13f9979ee9..5aeac65760eb84d57cce653246eb8d681d00ead2 100644
--- a/runtime/vm/raw_object_snapshot.cc
+++ b/runtime/vm/raw_object_snapshot.cc
@@ -1177,8 +1177,15 @@ void RawBigint::WriteTo(SnapshotWriter* writer,
   // Write out the bigint value as a HEXCstring.
   ptr()->bn_.d = ptr()->data_;
   const char* str = BigintOperations::ToHexCString(&ptr()->bn_, &ZoneAllocator);
+  bool neg = false;
+  if (*str == '-') {
+    neg = true;
+    str++;
+  }
   intptr_t len = strlen(str);
-  writer->WriteIntptrValue(len-2);
+  ASSERT(len > 2 && str[0] == '0' && str[1] == 'x');
+  writer->WriteIntptrValue(len - 2 + (neg ? 1 : 0));
+  if (neg) writer->Write<uint8_t>('-');

[siva, 2012/02/09 01:47:27]

Could you restruct as follows to make it more clear:
if (neg) {
  writer->WriteIntptrValue(len - 1);  // Include '-' in length.
  writer->Write<uint8_t>('-');
} else {
  writer->WriteIntptrValue(len - 2);
}

[Søren Gjesse, 2012/02/09 14:08:33]

Done.

   for (intptr_t i = 2; i < len; i++) {
     writer->Write<uint8_t>(str[i]);
   }