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    <bug>
          <bug_id>144391</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2015-04-29 09:11:47 -0700</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>Allow large arguments arrays by falling back to passing some or all arguments on the heap</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2015-04-29 09:11:47 -0700</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>WebKit</product>
          <component>JavaScriptCore</component>
          <version>528+ (Nightly build)</version>
          <rep_platform>All</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>All</op_sys>
          <bug_status>NEW</bug_status>
          <resolution></resolution>
          
          
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          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>Normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Filip Pizlo">fpizlo</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Nobody">webkit-unassigned</assigned_to>
          
          

      

      

      

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          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>1090018</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Filip Pizlo">fpizlo</who>
    <bug_when>2015-04-29 09:11:47 -0700</bug_when>
    <thetext>Consider code like:

Math.max.apply(Math, new Array(100000))

If the array size is large enough, this will fail.  Maybe it would be cool if it didn&apos;t.  We could make this work by having large arguments arrays passed in the heap - for example as an arguments object allocated by the caller - instead of on the stack.

We&apos;d probably have to only pass overflow arguments in this manner, for example arguments beyond some stack argument limit, in order to have a consistent calling convention. We&apos;d also have to make sure that ExecState&apos;s methods for looping over arguments are appropriately clued in - so that they aren&apos;t too slow for the common case of few arguments, while allowing existing variadic native functions to work for large arguments lists.</thetext>
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