403337 - JS 1.7.0 won't compile with gcc 3.X -- jsapi.c is the culprit

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Shanti Rao]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2
Build Identifier: SpiderMonkey 1.7.0

If you get a bunch of "initializer element is not constant" in jsapi.c, it's
because the JSStdName struct now has a JSClass* element that doesn't seem to
resolve at compile time.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
gcc.exe -c -fexceptions -I . -idirafter js/ -D _Windows -D XP_WIN -D _HAS_INT64   -oobj\gcc\jsapi.o js/jsapi.c

Actual Results:  
jsapi.c: initializer element is not constant

Comment 1

[Shanti Rao]

Attachment: Fix

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Comment on attachment 288157 [details]
Fix

Please submit this fix as a patch against the original (via CVS) instead of attaching the entire file.

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Shanti: Can you submit a cvs diff -u of that patch as said in Comment 2?

Comment 4

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

We used to work fine with GCC 3.x when this jsapi.c code was introduced, IIRC. Anyway, we and pretty much the rest of the world are using GCC 4.x. I don't think we want this patch. At a glance,something seems wrong with the particular version you're using.

/be

Comment 5

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

I think this bug is obsolete now.