1285313 - [templates][macros] new_<Foo> doesn't count as a Foo constructor

Status: NEW

(Webtools :: Searchfox, defect)

Description

[Bill McCloskey [inactive unless it's an emergency] (:billm)]

cx->new_<Foo>() does not show up as a 'use' of Foo's constructor. For instance, it looks like this constructor is unused:

http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=symbol:_ZN16JSExceptionStateC1EP9JSContext&redirect=false

But JS_SaveExceptionState calls it via cx->new_.

Comment 1

[Bill McCloskey [inactive unless it's an emergency] (:billm)]

This is now sorta fixed. It's still pretty hard to find the uses, but it's less obvious how to improve the situation.

Comment 2

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

This is a templates factory issue wrapped in a macro for extra complexity. MallocProvider::new_ is defined here which farms out the template factory definition to JS_DECLARE_NEW_METHODS.