Introduce read buffer for external strings when using charAt (ia32).

test/mjsunit/string-externalize.js

Index: test/mjsunit/string-externalize.js
diff --git a/test/mjsunit/string-externalize.js b/test/mjsunit/string-externalize.js
index da897869c557703db7c923784702f1aff4763334..1350bb67450f2a0c859caad032fd6ec7c7dfe1ab 100644
--- a/test/mjsunit/string-externalize.js
+++ b/test/mjsunit/string-externalize.js
@@ -87,6 +87,30 @@ function test() {
 
   // Flattened string should still be two-byte.
   assertFalse(isAsciiString(str2));
+
+  // Test buffered external strings.
+  var charat_str = new Array(5);
+  charat_str[0] = "0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF\
+0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF\
+0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF\
+0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF\
+0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF";
+  charat_str[1] = "0123456789ABCDEF";
+  for (var i = 0; i < 6; i++) charat_str[1] += charat_str[1];
+  try {  // String can only be externalized once
+    externalizeString(charat_str[0], false);
+    externalizeString(charat_str[1], true);
+  } catch (ex) { }
+  charat_str[2] = charat_str[0].slice(0, -1);
+  charat_str[3] = charat_str[1].slice(0, -1);
+  charat_str[4] = charat_str[0] + charat_str[0];
+
+  for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
+    assertEquals('B', charat_str[i].charAt(6*16 + 11));
+    assertEquals('C', charat_str[i].charAt(6*16 + 12));
+    assertEquals('A', charat_str[i].charAt(3*16 + 10));
+    assertEquals('B', charat_str[i].charAt(3*16 + 11));
+  }
 }
 
 // Run the test many times to ensure IC-s don't break things.