On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Mook <
mook.moz+nntp.news.mozilla....@gmail.com.please-avoid-direct-mail> wrote:

> On 11/25/2014 10:28 AM, Bobby Holley wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Mark Hammond <mhamm...@skippinet.com.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> * If it is supposed to be used with a normal return, is the change so
>>> GetPendingResult() is called the correct approach to take?  (ie, should I
>>> open a bug with that as the patch?)
>>>
>>>
>> At a high level yes, but I haven't looked at the code to determine if that
>> precise fix is right. Please file a bug with the patch flag me for review.
>>
>>  FWIW, this is bug 287107 - it would be useful to check against when
> happened when an attempt was made to fix it in 2005 (and got backed out).
>
> There are few callers that use this API in tree because it's been broken
> for nearly a decade :)
>

Brendan describes the problem causing the backout here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287846#c9

AFAICT this is all a moot point given that there are almost no consumers of
Components.returnCode left in the tree.
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