Subj : Re: a couple of problems w/ SM 1.6
To   : celso
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 09:12 pm

celso wrote:
> We've switched to using the MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH SM/JS code
> in our application and are very satisfied. We've had only
> a couple of problems so far:
> 
> - We're no more able to do, for example:
> app.alert.apply(app, ["alert"])
> where 'app.alert' is a native function call. Both 'apply' and
> 'call' are throwing the exception:
> TypeError: app.alert.apply is not a function
> Both JS_HAS_APPLY_FUNCTION and JS_HAS_CALL_FUNCTION are enabled
> on our compilation. We're able to do the following though:
> function f(a) { this.alert(a) }
> f.apply(app, ["msg"])


Can you file a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ on Core / Plugins 
and cc: me?  Please attach a testcase if possible.  Thanks.


> - We get a recursion crash in our errorReporter (stack below).
> JS_EvaluateUCScriptForPrincipals calls js_ReportUncaughtException,
> which tries to get the exception message via js_ValueToString(cx, exn);
> This ends up failing


Why does it fail?


> and calling JS_ReportErrorNumber, which calls
> our error reporter (iJSErrorReporter), which has a call to
> js_ValueToString(cx, exn) and so on.
> Thanks for your attention,


File a bug for the second problem, it can't hurt.  It should go against 
Core / JavaScript Engine.  To file bugs against the Core project, you 
will have to click on "Other Products".

/be

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