Re: Exception in Mozila JS DLL
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Aug 16 2021 10:25 am
>> out where in the code it crashed, if it crashed. This morning I saw
>> VS reported an exception had been thrown in mozjs185-1.0.dll. Since
>> we don't have the debug symbols for that library, it wasn't able to
>> show where in the code it happened.. It seemed Visual Studio was
>> frozen, so I had to force-kill it, and Synchronet closed too. At least
>> I know it's something with the Mozilla JS library. I'm not sure if
>> there's a JS script I have that's doing something wrong (I've been
>> wondering if it's one of my mods) or if there's a bug in the Mozilla
>> JS library.
DM> It shouldn't be possible for a JS script to do something so wrong as to
DM> crash SBBS. Or at least, that's the goal.
DM> The call stack should have indicated where the JS library functions were
DM> called from within the SBBS code (and with what arguments) and that could
DM> help to determine what's at fault. Sometimes bugs in SBBS can cause a
DM> crash in the JS library, so just because its crashing in the JS library
DM> doesn't necessarily mean it is at fault. --
I got a screenshot of Visual Studio which I probably should have shared earlier.
The call stack didn't seem to show much useful information though:
https://i.imgur.com/Qb6Lewz.png
Nightfox
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