Open Bug 1735339 Opened 3 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Document SpiderMonkey environment variables

Categories

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
JavaScript Engine
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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People

(Reporter: nbp, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

Currently SpiderMonkey relies on the following set of environment variables:

  • ARM_ASM_NOP_FILL
  • ARMHWCAP
  • ARM_SIM_DEBUGGER
  • ARM_SIM_ICACHE_CHECKS
  • ARM_SIM_STOP_AT
  • ASM_POOL_MAX_OFFSET
  • CACHEIR_LOG_FLUSH
  • CACHEIR_LOGS
  • FUZZER
  • IONFILTER
  • IONFLAGS
  • IONPERF
  • ION_SPEW_BY_PID
  • ION_SPEW_FILENAME
  • JS_CODE_COVERAGE_OUTPUT_DIR
  • JSGC_EXTRA_POISONING
  • JSGC_MARK_STACK_LIMIT
  • JSGC_PRETENURE_THRESHOLD
  • JS_GC_ZEAL
  • JS_NO_UNALIGNED_MEMCPY
  • JS_TRACELOGGER_SPEW
  • JS_TRACE_LOGGING
  • LOCALE_DECIMAL_POINT
  • LOCALE_GROUPING
  • LOCALE_THOUSANDS_SEP
  • MIPS_SIM_ICACHE_CHECKS
  • MIPS_SIM_STOP_AT
  • MIPS_UNALIGNED
  • MOZ_FUZZ_DEBUG
  • MOZ_FUZZING_SAFE
  • MOZ_FUZZ_LARGE_ALLOC_LIMIT
  • MOZ_NURSERY_BIGINTS
  • MOZ_NURSERY_STRINGS
  • MOZ_PROFILE_PERF_FLAGS
  • MOZ_PROFILE_WITH_PERF
  • MOZ_SHOW_ALL_JS_FRAMES
  • MOZ_UPLOAD_DIR
  • SHM_ID
  • SPEW
  • SPEW_FILE
  • SPEW_FILTER
  • SPEW_UPLOAD
  • TLDIR
  • TLLOG
  • TLOPTIONS
  • TZ
  • USE_DEBUGGER
  • VIXL_STATS
  • VIXL_TRACE
  • XRE_NO_WINDOWS_CRASH_DIALOG

We should document these environment variable somewhere.
Among possible locations are the firefox source documentation, or the JS shell usage message.

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