gecko-dev/xpcom
Mike Hommey 071a2fe984 Bug 1541792 - Replace linker magic with manual component registration. r=froydnj
Before bug 938437, we had a rather large and error-prone
nsStaticXULComponents.cpp used to register all modules. That was
replaced with clever use of the linker, which allowed to avoid the mess
that maintaining that file was.

Fast forward to now, where after bug 1524687 and other work that
preceded it, we have a much smaller number of remaining static xpcom
components, registered via this linker hack, and don't expect to add
any new ones. The list should eventually go down to zero.

Within that context, it seems to be the right time to get rid of the
magic, and with it the problems it causes on its own.

Some of those components could probably be trivially be converted to
static registration via .conf files, but I didn't want to deal with the
possible need to increase the number of dummy modules in XPCOMInit.cpp.
They can still be converted as a followup.

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D26076

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base Bug 1463569 - Add a way to log the sizes of GC things to GC logs. r=sfink 2019-04-07 13:35:44 +00:00
build Bug 1541792 - Replace linker magic with manual component registration. r=froydnj 2019-04-05 02:30:56 +00:00
components Bug 1541792 - Replace linker magic with manual component registration. r=froydnj 2019-04-05 02:30:56 +00:00
doc
ds Bug 1519636 - clang-format-8: Reformat recent changes to the Google coding style r=Ehsan 2019-04-05 21:41:42 +00:00
glue Bug 1533344 - Stop reading Universal CRT forwarder DLLs ahead on Windows 10. r=froydnj 2019-03-07 22:14:35 +00:00
idl-parser Bug 1535486 - Handle the element type correctly with rust XPCOM types, r=mccr8 2019-03-22 21:32:59 +00:00
io Merge mozilla-central to autoland. a=merge CLOSED TREE 2019-04-04 00:57:38 +03:00
libxpt/xptcall
reflect Bug 1541684, part 3 - Statically compute if a method is reflectable. r=nika 2019-04-05 23:48:18 +00:00
rust Bug 1542528 - Add an `xpcom::c_str` macro for creating static C strings. r=froydnj 2019-04-08 14:43:35 +00:00
string Bug 1519636 - Reformat recent changes to the Google coding style r=Ehsan 2019-03-31 15:12:55 +00:00
system Bug 1535124 part 3. Add MOZ_CAN_RUN_SCRIPT annotations to geolocation code as needed. r=jdm 2019-03-20 18:05:09 +00:00
tests Bug 1318091 - Disable failing android gtests; r=bc 2019-04-08 20:58:21 +00:00
threads Bug 1519636 - clang-format-8: Reformat recent changes to the Google coding style r=Ehsan 2019-04-05 21:41:42 +00:00
windbgdlg Bug 1528651 - Fix some trivial warnings and re-enable warnings-as-errors on Windows in some directories. r=dmajor 2019-02-19 20:42:11 +09:00
xpidl
moz.build Bug 1489340 - Remove xpcom/typelib r=froydnj 2018-09-07 13:55:38 +00:00
xpcom-config.h.in Bug 1523851 - Remove the dynamic_cast<void*> test. r=froydnj 2019-01-30 14:25:33 +00:00
xpcom-private.h.in