596317 - misleading error message: "script stack space quota is exhausted"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Lex Spoon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.495.0 Safari/534.6
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I spent > 8 hours looking for stack-related causes to this problem. However, after looking at the below code, it looks like it is caused whenever the JS engine runs out of memory representing the JS code.

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=js_ReportOutOfScriptQuota


Could the "stack" be dropped from this error message? "Script space quota is exhausted" would be clearer. Perhaps "script too large" would be even better.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Load a semi-large JavaScript file, maybe 10 MB, into Firefox 3.6.x.

Comment 1

[Lex Spoon]

I guess "script too large" would be inaccurate, since this also applies to regular expression results.

Perhaps, "Script memory quota exhausted" ?

Comment 2

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Igor, can you field this one? Thanks,

/be

Comment 3

[Igor Bukanov]

I will have a look at this.

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

bug 644241 removes this message