bool is_internalized = this->IsInternalizedString();
// Morph the string to an external string by replacing the map and
- // reinitializing the fields. This won't work if
- // - the space the existing string occupies is too small for a regular
- // external string.
- // - the existing string is in old pointer space and the backing store of
- // the external string is not aligned. The GC cannot deal with a field
- // containing a possibly unaligned address to outside of V8's heap.
- // In either case we resort to a short external string instead, omitting
+ // reinitializing the fields. This won't work if the space the existing
+ // string occupies is too small for a regular external string.
+ // Instead, we resort to a short external string instead, omitting
// the field caching the address of the backing store. When we encounter
// short external strings in generated code, we need to bailout to runtime.
Map* new_map;
- if (size < ExternalString::kSize ||
- heap->old_pointer_space()->Contains(this)) {
+ if (size < ExternalString::kSize) {
new_map = is_internalized
? (is_ascii
? heap->
bool is_internalized = this->IsInternalizedString();
// Morph the string to an external string by replacing the map and
- // reinitializing the fields. This won't work if
- // - the space the existing string occupies is too small for a regular
- // external string.
- // - the existing string is in old pointer space and the backing store of
- // the external string is not aligned. The GC cannot deal with a field
- // containing a possibly unaligned address to outside of V8's heap.
- // In either case we resort to a short external string instead, omitting
+ // reinitializing the fields. This won't work if the space the existing
+ // string occupies is too small for a regular external string.
+ // Instead, we resort to a short external string instead, omitting
// the field caching the address of the backing store. When we encounter
// short external strings in generated code, we need to bailout to runtime.
Map* new_map;
- if (size < ExternalString::kSize ||
- heap->old_pointer_space()->Contains(this)) {
+ if (size < ExternalString::kSize) {
new_map = is_internalized
? heap->short_external_ascii_internalized_string_map()
: heap->short_external_ascii_string_map();
--- /dev/null
+// Copyright 2014 the V8 project authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Flags: --expose-externalize-string --expose-gc
+
+var re = /(B)/;
+var cons1 = "0123456789" + "ABCDEFGHIJ";
+var cons2 = "0123456789\u1234" + "ABCDEFGHIJ";
+gc();
+gc(); // Promote cons.
+
+try { externalizeString(cons1, false); } catch (e) { }
+try { externalizeString(cons2, true); } catch (e) { }
+
+var slice1 = cons1.slice(1,-1);
+var slice2 = cons2.slice(1,-1);
+for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+ assertEquals(["B", "B"], re.exec(slice1));
+ assertEquals(["B", "B"], re.exec(slice2));
+}