210421 - missing procedure entry point

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Barry Treahy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030623
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030623

After upgrading to Build 20030623 Trunk 7, when I start Mozilla which starts the
e-mail client first, I get a pop-up dialog stating:

The procedure entry point ??0NS_ConvertUCS2toUTF8@@QAE@ABVnsAString@@@Z could
not be located in the dynamic link library xpcom.dll.

Clicking OK proceeds with the startup of Mozilla but once in the compose mode,
there is now no Spell Checker...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install build 20030623 Trunk 7 over prior installation which also had 1.4b
SpellChecker installed
2. Startup Mozilla
3. Read the error.

Actual Results:  
The procedure entry point ??0NS_ConvertUCS2toUTF8@@QAE@ABVnsAString@@@Z could
not be located in the dynamic link library xpcom.dll.


Expected Results:  
Startup without error and allow the Spellchecker to load.

If this is a situation of Spellchecker breaking because you busted the API for
it, well, you should recode the API for backward compatibility!

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> invalid

This is a bug in the spellchecker. Get a new spellchecker build

Comment 2

[Barry Treahy]

Duh! I DID do that before opening this bug and bitching about it.  Unless the
URL: http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/installation.html is not the correct
location today, for obtaining 1.4B builds, the download does not solve the
problem...

Barry

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> After upgrading to Build 20030623 Trunk 7

The 1.4b spellchecker no longer works with current trunk builds.  There is in
fact no spellchecker that works with them until the spellchecker is rebuilt
against current trunk headers.

But yes, this is a spellchecker issue for using non-frozen headers, not a
Mozilla one.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

verified invalid

The spellchecker use unfrozen interfaces. unfrozen means that they can always
change and and addon using this interface will crash unless you update the addon.