From kfm-devel  Wed Feb 28 22:50:37 2001
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:50:37 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: JS return values
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=98340516229516

On Wednesday 28 February 2001 21:10, Harri Porten wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> > 
> > ecma/kjs_window.cpp :
> > 655       return Completion(Normal, result);
> > 
> > kjs/function.cpp :
> > 128       else if (comp.complType() == ReturnValue)
> > 129         return comp.value();
> > 130       else
> > 131         return Undefined();
> > 
> > This obviously makes any window function return Undefined :(
> 
> That's what I wrote about in that ununderstandable answer to your bug
> report recently :}

Right - I couldn't understand it because I hadn't looked into the code yet,
so it was all Chinese to me (no offense intended to Chinese people :-)

> Yes. And I'm very sorry if you wasted any time debugging this. 

Actually, I found that one fast. I usually put kdDebug everywhere and get lost,
whereas this time I used gdb and "next", and I immediately saw what was wrong :-)

> I had the fix on my disk and must have forgotten to commit it :( I even fixed the
> kpac code .... It's checked in now.
Thanks.

> > or should we simply fix line 655 to s/Normal/ReturnValue/, given that if the value
> > is undefined, kjs/function is going to return Undefined anyway ?
> 
> There are other parts in the code that differentiate between the two so
> I would prefer to keep it this way.

Hmm, you did what I suggested anyway :)

> > There has to be a reason for Normal vs ReturnValue but I'm probably missing it :-)
> 
> "Normal" would be like "void" and no exception thrown. "ReturnValue" is
> used when the JS code said "return xyz;" or we want to emulate that like
> above.

Thought so, but the code in kjs/function.cpp line 130 doesn't care - ok that's
where "other parts of the code care" comes in :)

> Sorry for the mess. I had done local checks before I checked in my
> recent libkjs fix. Now I understand why I couldn't explain the posting
> (from Malte?) about getElementById() I read today. Good that I resisted
> touching that part of the code until after the 2.1 release.

Yes ;-)

/me happy that his JS-enabled website works again :)

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