From d345c1173ac9c7ba861039707a142e187651f71d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: isaacs <i@izs.me>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 11:58:21 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] events: Handle emit before constructor call

---
 lib/events.js                              | 3 +++
 test/simple/test-event-emitter-subclass.js | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/events.js b/lib/events.js
index 4cfa740765..dd4fdf64e7 100644
--- a/lib/events.js
+++ b/lib/events.js
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ EventEmitter.prototype.emit = function(type) {
     }
   }
 
+  if (!this._events)
+    this._events = {};
+
   handler = this._events[type];
 
   if (typeof handler === 'undefined')
diff --git a/test/simple/test-event-emitter-subclass.js b/test/simple/test-event-emitter-subclass.js
index a71a7c73c4..537b682088 100644
--- a/test/simple/test-event-emitter-subclass.js
+++ b/test/simple/test-event-emitter-subclass.js
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ var util = require('util');
 util.inherits(MyEE, EventEmitter);
 
 function MyEE(cb) {
+  this.emit('bar');
   this.on('foo', cb);
   process.nextTick(this.emit.bind(this, 'foo'));
   EventEmitter.call(this);