Re: Should / Can an EventHandler throw a stack overflow exception?

2014-07-02 Thread Yutaka Hirano
Thank you very much for the information. On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Mark S. Miller erig...@google.com wrote: I would like to see us take a principled stance on resource exhaustion errors in ES7. This includes both stack and heap, and both space and time. For example, the browser

Re: Should / Can an EventHandler throw a stack overflow exception?

2014-06-30 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Yutaka Hirano yhir...@google.com wrote: But it is unclear to me whether a stack overflow exception is counted as an exception thrown inside an event listener. Are stack overflow exceptions even a thing per standards?

Re: Should / Can an EventHandler throw a stack overflow exception?

2014-06-30 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 6/30/14, 4:40 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: Are stack overflow exceptions even a thing per standards? No. However, they come up pretty regularly in practice. In fact, some sites depend on them for proper functioning. :( -Boris

Re: Should / Can an EventHandler throw a stack overflow exception?

2014-06-30 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 6/30/14, 4:40 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: Are stack overflow exceptions even a thing per standards? No. However, they come up pretty regularly in practice. In fact, some sites depend on them for proper functioning.

Re: Should / Can an EventHandler throw a stack overflow exception?

2014-06-30 Thread Mark S. Miller
I would like to see us take a principled stance on resource exhaustion errors in ES7. This includes both stack and heap, and both space and time. For example, the browser behavior on terminating a turn that takes too long and proceeding silently to the next turn leaves arbitrary invariants broken.