http://blog.mozilla.com/mrbkap A blog about wrappers Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:03:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Especially working on old branches without some of the nice debugging helpers that jorendorff has implemented, sometimes I look at my gdb session and just know that I'm working on the JS engine: (gdb) p $.atom $11 = (JSAtom *) 0xb194f984 (gdb) p/x *(JSString *)((int)$ & ~7) $12 = {length = 0x20000004, u = ... http://blog.mozilla.com/mrbkap/2009/06/30/working-on-the-js-engine/ Several times over the past couple of weeks, I have wanted to make some sort of assertion about an invariant in Mozilla. Now, some invariants are easier to prove than others. For example, if I wanted to prove that a particular variable (such as nsHTMLDocument::mWriteState) only ever has one of ... http://blog.mozilla.com/mrbkap/2009/05/15/proving-difficult-assertions/ XPConnect has been around since the beginning of Gecko. However, at the beginning, it was only the bridge between JavaScript chrome code (chrome code is the code running in the browser itself, as opposed to content, web page code). In those early days, XPConnect-using JavaScript code looked a lot different. ... http://blog.mozilla.com/mrbkap/2009/04/23/a-brief-history-of-xpconnect/ Hello and welcome to another blog about the deep innards of Gecko. I'm Blake (known to many as mrbkap, pronounced Mr. Bee Kap) and I've been down here for about three years now. I'm look forward to joining the blogging ranks and all of the fame and fortune that obviously ... http://blog.mozilla.com/mrbkap/2009/04/03/hello-from-the-bowels-of-gecko/