308738 - RegExp behaves differently if JSOPTION_STRICT is active

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 308566

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Michael Daumling]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

When turning on JSOPTION_STRICT, some regular expressions show differnet
behavior after issuing a warning than if the option is turned off.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Shell, enter this line: 'abcdef'.match(/\143\144/)
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
null

Expected Results:  
cd

This bug is similar to bug 306727. Line 1093 (num = 0x10000( should be replaced
with:
                state->cp = termStart;
                goto doOctal;

Comment 1

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

mrbkap fixed this as part of the fixes for bug 306727 and bug 308566.

/be

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 306727 ***

Comment 2

[Michael Daumling]

The patch for 306727 does not fix this bug; the bug is similar, but not a duplicate.

Comment 3

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Sorry, you are right.  I was trying not to dup against a restricted bug. 
mrbkap, can we unrestrict?

/be

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 308566 ***