This commit removes all exception related code:
Remove VM::exception(), VM::throw_exception() etc. Any leftover
throw_exception calls are moved to throw_completion.
The one method left is clear_exception() which is now a no-op. Most of
these calls are just to clear whatever exception might have been thrown
when handling a Completion. So to have a cleaner commit this will be
removed in a next commit.
It also removes the actual Exception and TemporaryClearException classes
since these are no longer used.
In any spot where the exception was actually used an attempt was made to
preserve that behavior. However since it is no longer tracked by the VM
we cannot access exceptions which were thrown in previous calls.
There are two such cases which might have different behavior:
- In Web::DOM::Document::interpreter() the on_call_stack_emptied hook
used to print any uncaught exception but this is now no longer
possible as the VM does not store uncaught exceptions.
- In js the code used to be interruptable by throwing an exception on
the VM. This is no longer possible but was already somewhat fragile
before as you could happen to throw an exception just before a VERIFY.
Instead of using plain objects as Iterator records, causes confusion
about the object itself actually being its [[Iterator]] slot, and
requires non-standard type conversion shenanigans fpr the [[NextValue]]
and [[Done]] internal slots, implement a proper Iterator record struct
and use it throughout.
Also annotate the remaining Iterator AOs with spec comments while we're
here.
This includes:
- Parsing proper LabelledStatements with try_parse_labelled_statement()
- Removing LabelableStatement
- Implementing the LoopEvaluation semantics via loop_evaluation() in
each IterationStatement subclass; and IterationStatement evaluation
via {For,ForIn,ForOf,ForAwaitOf,While,DoWhile}Statement::execute()
- Updating ReturnStatement, BreakStatement and ContinueStatement to
return the appropriate completion types
- Basically reimplementing TryStatement and SwitchStatement according to
the spec, using completions
- Honoring result completion types in AsyncBlockStart and
OrdinaryCallEvaluateBody
- Removing any uses of the VM unwind mechanism - most importantly,
VM::throw_exception() now exclusively sets an exception and no longer
triggers any unwinding mechanism.
However, we already did a good job updating all of LibWeb and userland
applications to not use it, and the few remaining uses elsewhere don't
rely on unwinding AFAICT.
I wanted to do this for a long time. The guts of Promise are pretty
complex, and it's easier to understand with the spec right next to it.
Also found a couple of issues along the way :^)
GNU statement expressions fit the definition of IfAbruptRejectPromise
rather nicely, where we need to reject the failed promise (and return
the failed promise itself) on failure, and otherwise store a value on
success.
This is a bit ugly because, rather than simply wrapping the invocation
to GetPromiseResolve with TRY(), we have to invoke the promise's reject
method with any error. But this will be a bit cleaner in a subsequent
commit to change how IfAbruptRejectPromise is invoked.
Both at the same time because many of them call construct() in call()
and I'm not keen on adding a bunch of temporary plumbing to turn
exceptions into throw completions.
Also changes the return value of construct() to Object* instead of Value
as it always needs to return an object; allowing an arbitrary Value is a
massive foot gun.
The old versions were renamed to JS_DECLARE_OLD_NATIVE_FUNCTION and
JS_DEFINE_OLD_NATIVE_FUNCTION, and will be eventually removed once all
native functions were converted to the new format.
PerformPromiseAll, PerformPromiseAny, PerformPromiseAllSettled, etc, all
have very similar iteration loops. To avoid duplicating this rather
large block of code, extract the common functionality into a separate
method.
The element-resolving functions on the Promise constructor are all very
similar. To prepare for more of these functions to be implemented, break
out common parts into a base class.
This removes all usages of the non-standard define_property helper
method and replaces all it's usages with the specification required
alternative or with define_direct_property where appropriate.
If calling the executor function throws an exception, the return value
of `vm.call()` will be an empty value, which we then passed as an
argument to the reject function, which is incorrect - what it actually
needs is the exception value. This stems from a misunderstanding of the
spec I had at the time of implementing this - in their case, the
exception value is part of the completion record returned by Call().
This error was previously masked as we would use a fallback
(`value_or(js_undefined())` for the empty value argument, but that was
removed in 57f7e6e.
Fixes#8447.
This makes the implicit run-time assertion in PropertyName::to_string()
into an explicit compile-time requirement, removes a wasteful FlyString
-> PropertyName -> FlyString construction from NativeFunction::create()
and allows setting the function name to a null string for anonymous
native functions.
Requires a bunch of find-and-replace updates across LibJS, but
constructing a PropertyName from a nullptr Symbol* should not be
possible - let's enforce this at the compiler level instead of using
VERIFY() (and already dereference Symbol pointers at the call site).
As mentioned on Discord earlier, we'll add these to all new functions
going forward - this is the backfill. Reasons:
- It makes you look at the spec, implementing based on MDN or V8
behavior is a no-go
- It makes finding the various functions that are non-compliant easier,
in the future everything should either have such a comment or, if it's
not from the spec at all, a comment explaining why that is the case
- It makes it easier to check whether a certain abstract operation is
implemented in LibJS, not all of them use the same name as the spec.
E.g. RejectPromise() is Promise::reject()
- It makes it easier to reason about vm.arguments(), e.g. when the
function has a rest parameter
- It makes it easier to see whether a certain function is from a
proposal or Annex B
Also:
- Add arguments to all functions and abstract operations that already
had a comment
- Fix some outdated section numbers
- Replace some ecma-international.org URLs with tc39.es
