[webkit-help] WebKitAPITest WebViewDestruction/MainFrameAfterClose failure

[Adam Roben]

On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:25 PM, Russ Schnapp wrote:

> I've built WebKit for Windows, and am trying to make sure it's all working (though I have to say I'm daunted by all the non-open-source third party DLLs that have to be present in order for it to run!).
> 
> While running WebKitAPITest, the MainFrameAfterClose test is failing. The destruction of WebView.m_page (triggered by WebView::close) is somehow also causing the deallocation of m_mainFrame.
> 
> Is this a latent bug, discovered only because I happen to be testing with Visual Studio's Debug configuration (which fills deallocated blocks with 0xfeeefeee)?

This is a known issue: <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32868>. This bug is mentioned in the source code for that test.

> I just noticed one other failure:  NoCloseOrDestroyViewWindow reports
> 
> "webViewCount() == currentWebViewCount - 1 (.\tests\WebViewDestruction.cpp:92)"
> 
> Apparently, the webViewCount() didn't decrement from 1 to 0 after deleting the reference to webView.

This is unexpected. The original issue was reported as <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33162>. Would you be willing to file a new bug report?

-Adam