1126335 - Task.jsm should catch failures in overwriting the exception's stack property

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Async Tooling, defect)

Description

[:Gijs (out for now; he/him)]

(In reply to :Paolo Amadini from bug 917322 comment #145)
> (In reply to :Gijs Kruitbosch from comment #144)
> > Paolo or Yoric, do you know what's going on with the Promise/Task exception
> > handling code here? Can we avoid its own exceptions replacing the exceptions
> > it's trying to give us a better stack for?
> 
> We definitely fail when we cannot rewrite the "stack" property:
> 
> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/modules/Task.jsm#422
> 
> It's probably worth filing a bug to put the whole block inside try-catch,
> although when bug 1083359 is done we'll be able to avoid rewriting
> completely.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Per bug 1515695, we're moving away from Task.jsm, hence wontfix.