792029 - Make SpecialPowers available in crashtests

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing :: Reftest, defect)

Description

[Bobby Holley (:bholley)]

Joel already has patches that gets us 90% of the way there in bug 762908. As I understand it, the reason we haven't supported SpecialPowers in reftests thus far is that we feel we don't need it, and want them to be as standards-based as possible. This makes sense for reftests, but I think crashtests are a much different use case, where it's nice to be able to force GC and such. Also, |Components| is going away for content soon, so all the crashtests that access Components.interfaces won't be doing their job unless we fix them.

Comment 1

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

Attachment: turn on specialpowers for crashtests only (1.0)

this is hacky, but my comment explains why.  Tested on try a couple times with all green success.

Comment 2

[Bobby Holley (:bholley)]

Comment on attachment 664604 [details] [diff] [review]
turn on specialpowers for crashtests only (1.0)

I'm not a peer here, so it needs proper review from ted.

Comment 3

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/b16fb4f4ad48

Comment 4

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b16fb4f4ad48