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YiWen-y commented 4 years ago

When printing this, most engines output [object global], such as v8, spiderMonkey, chakra, etc., but the output of jerry is [object Object]. Why does it happen?

JerryScript revision

996bf76

Build platform

Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS (Linux 4.15.0-55-generic x86_64)

Build steps

python tools/build.py --clean --debug --logging=on --line-info=on --error-messages=on --cpointer-32bit=on --mem-heap=1572864 --profile=es2015-subset

Test case

var f = function() {
    print(this);
};
f();

Execution steps

build/bin/jerry testcase.js

Output

 [object Object]

Expected behavior

 [object global]

rerobika commented 4 years ago

Hi @YiWen-y,

The console.log/print like functions are engine specific and the standard does not contain any point about them, so I would not say that this is the expected behavior only other engines creates different output.