Subj : Re: JS_ValueToString and STRING_TO_JSVAL
To   : Weiyang Zhou
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Thu Aug 11 2005 10:47 pm

Weiyang Zhou wrote:

> What's the purpose of converting argv[i] to str, the assign str back to 
> argv[i]? In the end, argv[i] remain the same.


Not if !JSVAL_IS_STRING(argv[i]) beforehand.

See http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/gctips.html for why this is 
done in native methods such as Load.

/be

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