[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 69942] When an API test fails, TestWebKitAPI crashes

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69942





--- Comment #17 from David Kilzer (ddkilzer) <ddkilzer at webkit.org>  2011-12-21 10:23:49 PST ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> > Of course, the problem with this approach is that 'new' and 'delete' operators in JavaScriptCore headers now will NOT be redefined as fastMalloc() and fastFree(), so there will be mismatches when creating/deleting JSC objects.
> 
> I don't think TestWebKitAPI ever uses new to create JSC objects.

Well, more generally speaking, any JavaScriptCore, WebCore or WebKit header that uses operator 'new' or operator 'delete' is at risk of allocating memory using the wrong allocator if we disable these redefinitions in config.h.  (This assumes we want to be able to unit-test any class.)

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