Subj : Re: SpiderMonkey: JS_InitStandardClasses allways fails
To   : Franky Braem <fa225992@skynet.be>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Mon May 05 2003 02:14 pm

Franky Braem wrote:

>This is how I turn a jsval into a std::string
>
>JSString *s = JS_ValueToString(cx, v);
>std::string str(JS_GetStringBytes(s), JS_GetStringLength(s));
>  
>

This chops Unicode chars with code points >= 256 down to one byte, 
throwing away the upper byte.

>You can do this also for types that you don't support. JS_ValueToString will
>always try to convert the jsval into a String representation.
>
>Why do you use LAZY_STANDARD_CLASSES? I think you have to make a
>JS_ResolveStub for the global class, so that when somebody uses a standard
>class for the first time,  the class gets initialized.
>  
>

Yes, indeed.  But as Georg didn't show his global_class hooks, we can 
only guess at what's going wrong.

It is essential to provide full code, if it's not too voluminous, if one 
wants help finding bugs by inspection.

/be

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