KJS crash: var v=[]; v[0]=v; var w=""+v;

[Koos Vriezen]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Harri Porten wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Koos Vriezen wrote:
>
> > Interesting, never used the try/catch in JS. Hmm, this object being
> > thrown, doesn't seem to show useful error information:
>
> > shows an alert box with:
> >   TypeError: No default value
> >   name=TypeError
> >   message=No default value
> >   message=No default value
>
> Hmmm. With the other kind of recursion (khtmltests/js/crash-2.js) I get
> the expected name (RangeError) and message (Maximum call stack size
> exceeded). Looks like the "No default value" is overwriting the other one.
> Is this a problem ? It's an exception after all. Just coming from a higher
> level.
>
> > > P.S. NS 4.7 segfaulted on this one, too. Didn't try any other browser.
> >
> > Mozilla makes an empty string of w.
>
> Hmmm. Would require more work. Tell me if you ever have a problem with
> this difference in a real world script.

No, no problem, just reported what I saw. Thanks for fixing this bug and
pointing me to the try/catch possibility.

Koos