Closed Bug 750279 (UntangleFrontEnd) Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

[meta] Untangle front-end state

Categories

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: n.nethercote, Assigned: n.nethercote)

References

Details

(Keywords: meta)

The front-end is a big ball of mud.  In particular, the state is very intertwined.  Examples:

- Parser has a pointer to TreeContext, and TreeContext has a pointer to Parser.  

- Parser.cpp includes BytecodeEmitter.h;  BytecodeEmitter.cpp includes Parser.h.

- BytecodeEmitter is a sub-class of TreeContext, but sometimes we down-cast TreeContext to BytecodeEmitter.

- The tcflags are a mish-mash of values with a range of lifetimes and mutability.  Some are set up-front and not changed;  some are set and cleared multiple times.  Some are relevant only in the parser; some are relevant in the parser and bytecode emitter.

As a result, any function that has access to any of the major pieces of front-end state -- Parser, TreeContext, BytecodeEmitter -- has access to pretty much all of it.  Speaking as someone who's only just started looking closely at the front-end, this makes things really hard to understand.

This is a tracking bug for cleaning this up.
Alias: UntangleFrontEnd
Depends on: 750282
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I think I'm done with this.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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