Added ability to lock strings to prevent their representation or encoding from changing.

src/heap.h

Index: src/heap.h
diff --git a/src/heap.h b/src/heap.h
index db258e782641753e0865a289c3e2dcae1e139194..d389655fb967319b136ffb3173dc230c435536a7 100644
--- a/src/heap.h
+++ b/src/heap.h
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ inline Heap* _inline_get_heap_();
   V(Map, hash_table_map, HashTableMap)                                         \
   V(Smi, stack_limit, StackLimit)                                              \
   V(FixedArray, number_string_cache, NumberStringCache)                        \
+  V(FixedArray, string_locks, StringLocks)                        \
   V(Object, instanceof_cache_function, InstanceofCacheFunction)                \
   V(Object, instanceof_cache_map, InstanceofCacheMap)                          \
   V(Object, instanceof_cache_answer, InstanceofCacheAnswer)                    \
@@ -1210,6 +1211,25 @@ class Heap {
   // the string representation of the number.  Otherwise return undefined.
   Object* GetNumberStringCache(Object* number);
 
+  // Locks a string to prevent changes to the string's representation or
+  // encoding, e.g., due to externalization.
+  // It does not prevent moving the string during a GC
+  // (i.e., it's not a way to keep a pointer to an underlying character
+  // sequence valid). Might fail if the underlying data structure can't
+  // grow to accomodate the string, otherwise returns the string itself.
+  //
+  // Stores data in Heap::string_locks(), a FixedArray with the number
+  // of filled in elements in the first position, and that number of
+  // string pointers in the following positions (in no particular order).
+  // The FixedArray is padded with undefined or similar uninteresting values.
+  MaybeObject* LockString(String* string);
+  // Removes the lock on the string.
+  void UnlockString(String* string);
+  // Check if a string is locked.
+  bool IsStringLocked(String* string);
+  // Initializes the data structure underlying LockString.
+  MaybeObject* InitializeStringLocks();
+
   // Update the cache with a new number-string pair.
   void SetNumberStringCache(Object* number, String* str);