Re: [Gnash-commit] gnash/testsuite/actionscript.all Function.as

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:45:09PM +0800, zou lunkai wrote:
> see added tests at the end of  Function.as.
> 
> I have a feeling that function is not special,  but a group of opcodes
> that shares the same VM stack as its caller. As observed from the
> tests, the caller's runtime stack could be completely violated when
> calling a function.

I guess we both know this, as_environment only beeing still needed for
the 'target' member. I belive Chad was working on unifying the stack.

> Next step would be checking if the vm stack should be protected at
> frame boundary.

Indeed. Gnash GC relies on the assumption that all stacks are empty
after an advance. If that needs to be changed we'll need to take care
of properly marking stack elements as reachable.

--strk;