AS3 Test case #4 fails 0.71

[zahurdias]

package
{
    import flash.display.*;

    public class test4 extends MovieClip
    {
        private var AS1StyleClass:Function;
        private var as1Instance:*;

        public function test4()
        {
        AS1StyleClass= function():*{}
        AS1StyleClass.prototype = new MovieClip();
        as1Instance= new AS1StyleClass();

        trace(as1Instance instanceof MovieClip); // true
        trace(as1Instance is MovieClip); // false - cant see prototype chain

        trace(as1Instance instanceof AS1StyleClass); // true
        trace(as1Instance is AS1StyleClass); // true

        return;
        }// end function

    }
}

[zahurdias (zahurdias)]

the last 2 traces output:

ERROR: Unhandled ActionScript exception in VM TypeError: Error #1040: instanceOf expects a class of function as second parameter!

with mxmlc compiler

or

ERROR: Unhandled ActionScript exception in VM TypeError: Error #1041

with Adobe FLash CS3 compiler

[Antti Ajanki (aajanki)]

Confirmed, the instanceOf implementation does not check the prototype set by the user. I added a test case about this.