[webkit-dev] Crash in JSC while loading gap.com on 1.6.3

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Tue Apr 30 00:11:48 PDT 2013


He probably refers to 1.6.3 of WebKitGTK+, the confusion comes from the fact 
that WebKitGTK+ calls themselves and their library 'WebKit' on Linux with no 
attempt of disambiguation.

He needs to update though. I think they are at 1.11 and 2.0 now.

`Allan

On Tuesday 30 April 2013, Filip Pizlo wrote:
> Three suggestions:
> 
> 1) If you find a bug in some part of WebKit (JSC or elsewhere), you should
> file it on bugs.webkit.org.  webkit-dev isn't really the right venue for
> bug reports.
> 
> 2) You should be more specific - in the bug report that you will file and
> not in this thread - about what port you're using.  Version "1.6.3" is
> ambiguous, to me.  There are a number of ports that support ARM, and it's
> not clear to me which you're using.  Hence, I don't even know how old
> "1.6.3" is, because I'm not familiar with the versioning that the
> different ports do.
> 
> 3) Your best bet is probably to update to a newer version, and see if the
> bug reproduces.
> 
> -Filip
> 
> On Apr 29, 2013, at 10:15 PM, developer World <world2develop at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   I am using the 1.6.3 release (an old one) for my development and get a
> >   crash while loading gap.com and youtube.com/tv.(Both related to JS
> >   function apply having an incredibly large number of arguments)
> > 
> > My processor is ARM 11 based and the smaps of the crash point me to the
> > location where the JIT has dumped the bytecode for excuting various JS
> > functionality.
> > 
> > From the looks of it, the issue I face is very similar to this one
> > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108991 however, since I am on an
> > old version it is difficult for me to fix it in my JSC. Can anyone help
> > me out over here as to where should I patch my JSC source code
> > 
> > Thanks
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