323252 - XPConnect conspires against DSW which was trying to avoid stack overflow

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[timeless]

short story, very long stack

someone made a bad change to gecko which resulted in stack overflow at the bottom which you will see. our code generates lots of potential garbage, which means that spidermonkey has to work hard when it tries to gc. result: we found out that the stack overflow protection in spidermonkey doesn't work. :(

for reference, the js error being reported is stack overflow.

Comment 1

[timeless]

Attachment: stack

Comment 2

[Igor Bukanov]

GC changes in bug 324278 should address this fully.

Comment 3

[Igor Bukanov]

With bug 324278 fixed GC should be able to mark in constant space an arbitatry graph of GC related things of an arbitrary type.