Subj : Re: Limit of lines of JS-Code?
To   : danielkirsch
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Thu Jun 02 2005 11:48 am

Daniel Kirsch wrote:
> We created a pretty large project (based on Firefox 1.0.3 code) with
> many JavaScript files and dynamically created JavaScript objects from
> hundreds of parsed XML files.
> 
> We now run into a pretty strange problem. When writing additional lines
> of code some methods cannot be called anymore. Calling them throws an
> exception.
> We found out that it doesn't matter in which file we add additional code
> or even blank lines. We get it down to one single line-break which
> causes the problem. When we remove the line-break everything works.


Please file a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and attach the 
minimal testcase.  Product: Core, Component: JavaScript Engine.


> Is there any known limit of how many lines of javascript code can be
> used for a XUL project?


This does not sound like a line count limit.


> We had similar behaviours before which could be solved by adding or 
> removing some blank lines (!) in a document. The error seems to depend 
> on a document. Not a special one but randomly on any document we 
> recently changed. But this time it seems, as if there is a character 
> limit and it doesn't matter which file contains the additional character.


That's odd.


> Any ideas for a workaround?


Not without a bug with a reproducible testcase attached.  Major bonus 
points if you can get this to reproduce using just js shell or xpcshell.

/be

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