Re: increased risk of ECMAScript crashes in ELinks 0.11.3.GIT

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[email protected]> wrote Tue, May 29, 2007:
> Fonseca, if you release ELinks 0.11.4 soon, please revert
> these commits first:
> 
> 644908c130210ed7b17a3bd1241244576b94c546
>   Garbage-collect SMJS objects before flushing caches.
> 
> 5a49b9f14d4b8bb30bfada4958c22e6a8cfab21e
>   NEWS: mention bug 951
> 
> The extra garbage collections increase the risk of crashing
> because of dangling pointers in form_state.ecmascript_obj.
> This bug has been fixed in commit
> b4d9b7f5a60a64a26fcfffcb66a376cae5b31bc1 in ELinks 0.12.GIT.
> I am going to add the bug to bugzilla.elinks.cz (it is not the
> same as bug 755, which is about pointers _to_ struct form_state)
> and then backport that commit to 0.11.3.GIT (or 0.11.4.GIT).
> The fix in 0.12.GIT is not entirely correct (it breaks object
> identity comparisons) but fixing the bug properly will take
> some time and I think it is more important now to remove the
> risk of crashing.

Ok, thanks for the warning, however, I thought that I expressed that I
do not really consider ECMAScript related crashes as something to worry
about for the current stable version.

I will try to find time to release 0.11.4 in the start of June.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca