Subj : Re: Spidermonkey string.split
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : "Mike McIntosh" <mike@jeezo.com>
Date : Fri Jan 24 2003 10:26 am

Thanks Phil,

Looks like the same bug.

Mike

"Phil Schwartau" <pschwartau@netscape.com> wrote in message
news:3E308876.8090407@netscape.com...
> Hi Mike,
>
> This looks like a known bug, reported on Windows-only:
>
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163323
> "Mozilla and xpcshell crash on string.split(/\b\W+(\b|$)/g) [@ str_split]"
>
> If you have an account at Bugzilla (easily obtained at
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/createaccount.cgi), you can cc yourself on
this to follow progress on
> the problem -
>
> Phil
>
>
> Mike McIntosh wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I seem to have a problem with regular expression _only_ in Win32 release
> > mode. I have built the js32.dll via the Visual C++ IDE using js.mdp.
> >
> > Sample script is :-
> > =============
> >
> > var strXT = "82.50US1.90XF";
> > var arx = strXT.split(/(\d*\.?\d{2}?)/g);
> >
> > ==================
> >
> > In debug mode, arx contains 5 elements "", "82.50", "US", "1.90" and
"XF".
> >
> > When I run release mode version I get an exception in jsstr.c at line
1834
> > (the js_NewStringCopy)
> >
> > for (num = 0; num < cx->regExpStatics.parenCount; num++) {
> >                     if (limited && len >= limit)
> >                         break;
> >                     parsub = REGEXP_PAREN_SUBSTRING(&cx->regExpStatics,
> > num);
> >                     sub = js_NewStringCopyN(cx, parsub->chars,
> > parsub->length,
> >                                             0);
> >                     if (!sub)
> >                         return JS_FALSE;
> >
> > Looking at the cx->regExpStatics variable, it seems to contain
> > parenCount=58259372 which seems strange. After executing the
> > REGEXP_PAREN_SUBSTRING line.parsub seems to have value FFFFFFB8.
> >
> > If I build the release version with optimisation off, I don't get the
> > problem.
> >
> > Can anyone else reproduce this or have I just got a screwed up build?.
> >
> > Btw, I am on Visual C++ v6.0 with SP5 applied.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mike
> >
> >
>

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