Unresolved super-send is not a compile-time error.

dart/frog/leg/compiler.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.
 
 class WorkItem {
   final Element element;
   TreeElements resolutionTree;
   Function run;
   Map<int, BailoutInfo> bailouts = null;
   bool allowSpeculativeOptimization = true;
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   SourceSpan spanFromTokens(Token begin, Token end) {
     if (begin === null || end === null) {
       // TODO(ahe): We can almost always do better. Often it is only
       // end that is null. Otherwise, we probably know the current
       // URI.
       throw 'cannot find tokens to produce error message';
     }
     final startOffset = begin.charOffset;
     // TODO(ahe): Compute proper end offset.
     final endOffset =
-      (end.next !== null) ? end.next.charOffset : startOffset + 1;
+      Math.max((end.next !== null) ? end.next.charOffset : 0, startOffset + 1);

[kasperl, 2012/03/13 08:55:30]

It's a bit hard to read and understand this line now.
   

[ahe, 2012/03/13 09:12:11]

Done.

     Uri uri = currentElement.getCompilationUnit().script.uri;
     return new SourceSpan(uri, startOffset, endOffset);
   }
 
   SourceSpan spanFromNode(Node node) {
     return spanFromTokens(node.getBeginToken(), node.getEndToken());
   }
 
   SourceSpan spanFromElement(Element element) {
     if (element.position() === null) {
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   }
 }
 
 class SourceSpan {
   final Uri uri;
   final int begin;
   final int end;
 
   const SourceSpan(this.uri, this.begin, this.end);
 }