More work on decoupling the general runtime from Interpreter. The goal
is becoming clearer. Interpreter should be one possible way to execute
code inside a VM. In the future we might have other ways :^)
This patch moves the exception state, call stack and scope stack from
Interpreter to VM. I'm doing this to help myself discover what the
split between Interpreter and VM should be, by shuffling things around
and seeing what falls where.
With these changes, we no longer have a persistent lexical environment
for the current global object on the Interpreter's call stack. Instead,
we push/pop that environment on Interpreter::run() enter/exit.
Since it should only be used to find the global "this", and not for
variable storage (that goes directly into the global object instead!),
I had to insert some short-circuiting when walking the environment
parent chain during variable lookup.
Note that this is a "stepping stone" commit, not a final design.
The motivation for this change is twofold:
- Returning a JS::Value is misleading as one would expect it to carry
some meaningful information, like maybe the error object that's being
created, but in fact it is always empty. Supposedly to serve as a
shortcut for the common case of "throw and return empty value", but
that's just leading us to my second point.
- Inconsistent usage / coding style: as of this commit there are 114
uses of throw_exception() discarding its return value and 55 uses
directly returning the call result (in LibJS, not counting LibWeb);
with the first style often having a more explicit empty value (or
nullptr in some cases) return anyway.
One more line to always make the return value obvious is should be
worth it.
So now it's basically always these steps, which is already being used in
the majority of cases (as outlined above):
- Throw an exception. This mutates interpreter state by updating
m_exception and unwinding, but doesn't return anything.
- Let the caller explicitly return an empty value, nullptr or anything
else itself.
Divide the Object constructor into three variants:
- The regular one (takes an Object& prototype)
- One for use by GlobalObject
- One for use by objects without a prototype (e.g ObjectPrototype)
More work towards supporting multiple global objects. Native C++ code
now get a GlobalObject& and don't have to ask the Interpreter for it.
I've added macros for declaring and defining native callbacks since
this was pretty tedious and this makes it easier next time we want to
change any of these signatures.
This new struct is now returned from get_own_property_descriptor. To
preserve the old functionality of returning an object, there is now a
get_own_property_descriptor_object method, for use in
{Object,Reflect}.getOwnPropertyDescriptor().
This change will be useful for the implementation of Proxies, which do a
lot of descriptor checks. We want to avoid as many object gets and puts
as possible.
Previously, the Object class had many different types of functions for
each action. For example: get_by_index, get(PropertyName),
get(FlyString). This is a bit verbose, so these methods have been
shortened to simply use the PropertyName structure. The methods then
internally call _by_index if necessary. Note that the _by_index
have been made private to enforce this change.
Secondly, a clear distinction has been made between "putting" and
"defining" an object property. "Putting" should mean modifying a
(potentially) already existing property. This is akin to doing "a.b =
'foo'".
This implies two things about put operations:
- They will search the prototype chain for setters and call them, if
necessary.
- If no property exists with a particular key, the put operation
should create a new property with the default attributes
(configurable, writable, and enumerable).
In contrast, "defining" a property should completely overwrite any
existing value without calling setters (if that property is
configurable, of course).
Thus, all of the many JS objects have had any "put" calls changed to
"define_property" calls. Additionally, "put_native_function" and
"put_native_property" have had their "put" replaced with "define".
Finally, "put_own_property" has been made private, as all necessary
functionality should be exposed with the put and define_property
methods.
This patch is unfortunately rather large and might make some things feel
bloated, but it is necessary to fix a few flaws in LibJS, primarily
blindly coercing values to numbers without exception checks - i.e.
interpreter.argument(0).to_i32(); // can fail!!!
Some examples where the interpreter would actually crash:
var o = { toString: () => { throw Error() } };
+o;
o - 1;
"foo".charAt(o);
"bar".repeat(o);
To fix this, we now have the following...
to_double(Interpreter&)
to_i32()
to_i32(Interpreter&)
to_size_t()
to_size_t(Interpreter&)
...and a whole lot of exception checking.
There's intentionally no to_double(), use as_double() directly instead.
This way we still can use these convenient utility functions but don't
need to check for exceptions if we are sure the value already is a
number.
Fixes#2267.
There are now two API's on Value:
- Value::to_string(Interpreter&) -- may throw.
- Value::to_string_without_side_effects() -- will never throw.
These are some pretty big sweeping changes, so it's possible that I did
some part the wrong way. We'll work it out as we go. :^)
Fixes#2123.
