300736 - Meta-compilation of Narcissus fails

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Other Applications Graveyard :: Narcissus, defect)

Description

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

Currently, evaluate('evaluate("js.js")') gets stuck in an infinite loop. Brendan
tells me it gets stuck up near the top of jsparse.js. I'm filing this to track
getting meta-compilation to succeed.

Comment 1

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

Attachment: Oops

It helps to allow evaluate to be used in js.js when meta-compiling. This does
pick up on the correct version of evaluate. (i.e., "evaluate('evaluate')"
returns Narcissus' evaluate and not the native version.

Comment 2

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Comment on attachment 189270 [details] [diff] [review]
Oops

Native evaluate, d'oh!	Thanks,

/be

Comment 3

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Comment 0 meant evaluate('evaluate(snarf("js.js"))'), right?  After the
prerequisite evaluate(snarf("js.js")).

The iloop was in the first for-in loop at top-level in jsparse.js.  Which
suggests a bug in the FOR_IN: case in jsexec.js.

/be

Comment 4

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Closing as Narcissus isn't maintained anymore.