Reviewers: Mads Ager,
Message:
Mads,
may you have a look?
Any suggestions/corrections are most appreciated.
yours,
anton.
Description:
Clarify some details of global objects implementation.
Please review this at http://codereview.chromium.org/6386011/
SVN Base: https://v8.googlecode.com/svn/branches/bleeding_edge
Affected files:
M include/v8.h
Index: include/v8.h
diff --git a/include/v8.h b/include/v8.h
index
5e57bedb9ae8310a91839dc88116ffabdd528261..3b0e376d9188cbd379e4a05660f482dc757dccfd
100644
--- a/include/v8.h
+++ b/include/v8.h
@@ -3053,7 +3053,18 @@ class V8EXPORT ExtensionConfiguration {
*/
class V8EXPORT Context {
public:
- /** Returns the global object of the context. */
+ /**
+ * Returns the global proxy object.
+ *
+ * Global proxy object is a thin wrapper whose prototype points to
+ * actual context's global object with the properties like Object, etc.
+ * This is done that way for security reasons (for more details see
+ * https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:SplitWindow).
+ *
+ * Please note that changes to global proxy object prototype most
probably
+ * would break VM---v8 expects only global object as a prototype of
+ * global proxy object.
+ */
Local<Object> Global();
/**
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