304771 - Javascript: Unitialized variable yields random results

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 263945

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Gilmar M.Mendes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050514
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050514

setTimeout( function( a ){ alert(a); }, 1 );

In IE, this code makes a exception, but Firefox (windows) and
this version of mozilla, results in random numbers, maybe trash
from stack.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to js console
2.setTimeout( function( a ){ alert(a); }, 1 );
3.

Actual Results:  
random numbers are returned

Expected Results:  
Exhibiton of "a" var value

weird behaviour detected first by [e-mail]

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263945 ***