The tests crashed on my Debian systems but not on my Ubuntu system.
The crash happened in line 142 of SpiderMonkey's ThreadLocal.h.
I know that I had to use a workarounnd for contexts to avoid destroying
the context that was created first. I also had in mind that in newer
versions a JS_Init function got introduced which presumably solves this
kind of issues.
Based on this experience I assumed runtimes could have a similar problem
and this patch indeed fixes the issues.
Unfortunately the correct usage of JSRuntimes in that regard is not
documented.
There's only a rater misterious comment in JSAPI.h which hasn't been
cleared up so far and is most likely completely outdated
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992641).
This was SVN commit r14995.
This commit contains all the required changes to our source files and
build scripts (hopefully).
A next commit will remove the old stuff of SpiderMonkey 1.8.5.
Spcial thanks to:
- H4writer who helped a lot mainly with the performance issues we
had/have, but also with other problems or questions.
- Leper for the review.
- Historic_bruno for implementing the build scripts on Mac OS X and
testing on the Mac.
- The people from the #jsapi channel and from
mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine who answered a lot of questions and helped
solving problems.
- All the other people who helped
Refs #1886Fixes#2442Fixes#2416
This was SVN commit r14877.
