853840 - "Too much recursion" seems ill-considered

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[László Domoszlai]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130307023931

Steps to reproduce:

I have an application on the following page (please click on the "load" link first then the "Generate JavaScript Code" button) 
http://people.inf.elte.hu/dlacko/sapljs/







Actual results:

It throws "Internal error: too much recursion".


Expected results:

However, this is very peculiar. The same application runs perfectly nice 
in Chrome 25.0.1364.172 m (which has a much smaller recursion limit),
Opera 12.13 (it also has a smaller recursion limit than FireFox) and in
Internet explorer 10.0.9200.16521

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The allowed recursion depth depends on the size of stack frames, because what matters is running out of stack space...

Comment 2

[ISHIKAWA, Chiaki]

I came from bug 1667962
(I noticed a strange too much recursion error and looking for similar bug reports to figure out what is going on.
I now have a suspicion something is amiss with alert-like error reporting in JS code.)
I am using FF 87.0 windows 10 64-bit as I write this.

When I accessed the following URL
http://people.inf.elte.hu/dlacko/sapljs/
and hit genereate javascript code button,
I got a presumably working java code, and not "Internal error: too much recursion".
So the problem may be gone by now.

Comment 3

[Jan de Mooij [:jandem]]

Thanks for checking.

Let's just close this. I don't expect this bug to go anywhere and so much has changed in the JS engine the past 8 years.