[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 41844] New: JavaScript parser violates ECMA automatic semicolon insertion rule

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41844

           Summary: JavaScript parser violates ECMA automatic semicolon
                    insertion rule
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: JavaScriptCore
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: kent.hansen at nokia.com


The following snippet:

    JSGlobalContextRef context = JSGlobalContextCreateInGroup(NULL, NULL);
    const char *script = "if (0)";
    JSValueRef val = JSEvaluateScript(context, JSStringCreateWithUTF8CString(script), NULL, NULL, 1, NULL);
    JSStringRef str = JSValueToStringCopy(context, val, NULL);
    char buf[256];
    JSStringGetUTF8CString(str, buf, 256);
    printf("%s\n", buf);

prints "undefined".

ECMA-262 5th ed, section 7.9.1 "Rules of automatic semicolon", states: "When, as the program is parsed from left to right, the end of the input stream of tokens is encountered and the parser is unable to parse the input token stream as a single complete ECMAScript Program, then a semicolon is automatically inserted at the end of the input stream."

So far, so good.
But then the above is followed by: "However, there is an additional overriding condition on the preceding rules: a semicolon is never inserted automatically if the semicolon would then be parsed as an empty statement [...]."

When the program is "if (0)", as in the above snippet, per the above rule, a semicolon should _not_ automatically be inserted. Instead a SyntaxError should be thrown.

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