Bug 72766 – Setting a property on an object whose prototype has a readonly property of the same name should not work

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: DUPLICATE
• Component: JavaScriptCore

[Boris Zbarsky]

Created attachment 115885 [details]
Testcase

The attached testcase should print "PASS" twice.  Instead, it prints "FAIL" twice in JavaScriptCore.

The relevant analysis per ECMA-262 follows:

1) Per section 15.2.3.9, Object.freeze reconfigures data properties not
   be writable.
2) Per section 11.13.1, setting "test_instance.x = 'hello'" calls
   PutValue() with "test_instance.x" as the first argument.
3) Per section 8.7.2 step 4 the [[Put]] internal method of
   test_instance is called.  IsStrictReference is true if an only if
   the code is in strict mode.
4) Per section 8.12.5 step 1, the [[CanPut]] internal method of
   test_instance is called.
5) Per section 8.12.4 step 1, [[GetOwnProperty]] is called on
   test_instance; in this case it returns undefined, so step 2 is
   skipped.
6) Per section 8.12.4 step 5 [[GetProperty]] is called on the prototype
   and returns a data descriptor for a non-writable data property.
7) Per section 8.12.4 step 8b, [[CanPut]] returns false.
8) Per section 8.12.5 step 1, either a TypeError is thrown or the set
   is ignored, depending on whether the code is in strict mode.

JavaScriptCore most certainly doesn't do the above.

SpiderMonkey gets this right.

[Boris Zbarsky]

Step 2 should be:

2) Per section 11.13.1, setting "test_instance.x" calls
   PutValue() with "test_instance.x" as the first argument.

[Gavin Barraclough]

This has been fixed in r108304.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 79069 ***