Subj : Re: JS_ResumeRequest puzzle
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Bob Kline <bkline@rksystems.com>
Date : Wed Mar 17 2004 01:56 pm

Brendan Eich wrote:

> JS_ResumeRequest takes a second saveDepth parameter, of type 
> jsrefcount, that you declare locally and set beforehand to the return 
> value of JS_SuspendRequest.

How about the other question?  Is it OK to replace JS_SuspendRequest 
with JS_EndRequest and JS_ResumeRequest with JS_BeginRequest?  Are the 
two approaches functionally equivalent?  I came to the conclusion that 
they might be, based on the description of the purpose of these four 
calls as distinguishing blocks of code in which GC (and possibly other 
processing using common data) could and could not run.  This conclusion 
seemed to be reinforced by the documentation for the four Request calls. 
  Is this interpretation correct?  Or is the request model more subtle 
than that?

Bob

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