397933 - Rewrite XPCOM classes to inherit from GCObject

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Smedberg]

We need to rewrite XPCOM classes to inherit from GCObject. See the spec at http://wiki.mozilla.org/XPCOMGC/GCObject_Inheritance

Taras, if you can hand-hold me through writing a dehydra script to do part 1 of the spec, I'd really appreciate that.

Comment 1

[(dormant account)]

Attachment: Dehydra script to find candidates for the spec

This simply prints out a list of classes that should be in list B according to the spec. I tried to keep the script as simple as possible so it probably doesn't handle all cases yet.

main limitation is that dehydra currently ignores static variables. Should be pretty simple to add support for those.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

As far as I'm concerned this works for the XPCOMGC experiment... all the necessary scripts are in the xpcomgc-patches repository.