[webkit-dev] Odd behavior with instrumentation of WebKit

Gregor Richards gkrichar at purdue.edu
Tue May 17 12:42:09 PDT 2011


On 05/17/11 14:06, Darin Adler wrote:
> On May 17, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Gregor Richards wrote:
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>> In the uninstrumented branch (both JIT and interpreter), the lastIndexOf property of Array.prototype (which we set) is marked as enumerable, so a for...in loop outputs it.
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> That sounds like a bug. You should file a bug report with the test case that demonstrates the bug. You should also test in other JavaScript engines to make sure this is actually a bug.
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> Despite how strongly you are interested in the problem that directly affects your project, you have to recognize that questions about the behavior of your modified copy of JavaScriptCore aren’t going to be as interesting to the folks working on JavaScriptCore as the bug you found. Getting that bug fixed could lead to the solution to your problem.
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>     -- Darin
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All I needed was whether it seems like a bug or not; since it seems it
is a bug (and yeah, I've tested it in other engines, the behavior of
them conforms to the behavior /with/ our changes), I'll file a report.

 - Gregor Richards


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