300584 - nsXPConnect::InitStatics is evil and causes bad behavior (infinite recursion)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: XPConnect, defect)

Description

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afaik this was introduced by bsmedberg.

i'm filing now we can iron out the details later. in short xpconnect registers a
callback w/ spidermonkey. then when we're really registering stuff, we can get
really unlucky and have jsd register the callback, and then xpconnect for some
reason calls this function again which means that when we later create *another*
xpconnect (the original one is still floating around out there somewhere), we
have spidermonkey=>XPConnect#2=>JSD#1=>XPConnect#1=>JSD#1=>you don't exit this loop.

i've seen this a couple of times, but steps to reproduce pretty much require:
1. rm components/compreg.dat
2. run a gecko creature (i use mfcembed)

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