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js_parser: keep a dead for-in/for-of head with two or more names as written, and print a dead require() as null - #48035
A dead loop (it never runs) makes a valid file fail to load: return; for (var [a, b] of x) ; throws SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier 'of'. can only declare a single variable in an enumeration.bun build writes it too. Nobody reported it: a code read found it.
should_keep_stmt_in_dead_control_flow (src/js_parser/scan/scan_side_effects.rs) keeps a dead var as a flat name list, also in a for-in/for-of head: for (var a, b of x).
A dead require("x") printed as nothing (transpose_require, src/js_parser/p.rs).
Fix
The for-in/for-of arms leave a head with 2+ names as written. Other heads are unchanged.
A dead require("x") prints null, like a dead import(). Cache version 52 drops old entries with the invalid text.
Verified: test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js, test/bundler/esbuild/dce.test.ts (8 tests fail on main). Other suites: Notes.
Self-reviewed: 11 concerns raised, 10 addressed. Not taken: a printer assertion, because a live yield; prints an empty expression.
Background
The parser trims code that cannot run but keeps a var: the function sees its name.
A for-in/for-of head takes one declaration, a var statement a list.
Considered: every head as written. One-name heads then print defaults that main drops: 3 probed files stop loading.
8 of 68 valid outputs with a dead require() change. 0 of 32,081 test/node_modules files change.
Release .text: +512 bytes. Cache entries are rebuilt once.
Notes
Where it comes from
No issue exists. The flat rewrite came with the esbuild port. The repro fails on 1.4.3 and on main, and Node 26 runs the same files.
Ways to reach it: an early return above the loop, a const DEBUG = false guard in the same file, a dev-only process.env.NODE_ENV block under bun build --production. The loop must be inside a function: at module level the var is moved out of the loop before the filter runs.
A dead require() alone gives SyntaxError: Unexpected token ')' or SyntaxError: Must provide an expression as a while loop condition., with no pattern in the file.
What a dead loop prints (inside a function, minify.syntax on)
Source
main
This PR
for (var [a, b] of x) ;
for (var a, b of x) ; (SyntaxError)
as written
for (var [a = g()] of x) ;
for (var a of x) ;
same
for (var [] of x) ;
removed
same
for (var [] of x) { var y; }
as written
same
for (let [a, b] of x) { var y = a; }
for (let [a, b] of x) var y;
same
for (var [a, b] = x; a < b; a++) ;
for (var a, b;a < b; a++) ;
same
for (var a of require("x")) ; in if (false)
for (var a of ) ; (SyntaxError)
for (var a of null) ;
esbuild (0.28.2)
With --minify-syntax it prints for (var a, b of x) for a head with two names, which Node and esbuild reject, and for (var a of x) for a one-name pattern. This PR prints the same text as esbuild for the one-name head.
Without the flag it does not trim dead code. Bun trims an if (false) branch with the default options, so the defect shows there without any flag.
It prints a dead require() as null.
Why a one-name head is not kept as written
The first version of this change kept every head as written. A dead one-name head then prints expressions that main drops. These three load on main and failed with that version:
Invalid outputs over a matrix of 1296 sources (18 heads, in/of/for await, 2 bodies, 12 contexts), each with the default options and with minify.syntax: Bun.Transpiler 720 of 2592 on main, 0 here. Bun.build 720 of 2592 on main, 0 here. JSC and V8 agree on every row. No output that is valid on main changes.
test/node_modules (32,081 .js/.mjs/.cjs files, 238.5 MB), release builds: 0 outputs change with Bun.Transpiler and with Bun.build (external: ["*"]), each with and without minify.syntax, and again with process.env.NODE_ENV defined as "production".
Dead require("./missing.js") in 34 positions of an if (false) block: 21 files fail to load on main, 0 here. A kept head [a = require("x"), b] would print [a = , b] without this edit. Bun.build: 44 of 68 outputs invalid on main, 0 here. 8 of 68 valid outputs change (+30 bytes): g() to g(null), [,] to [null], for (;; ) to for (;null; ) and for (;; null). The missing file still adds no import record.
Filter work, gdb hit counts on release builds, 1000 transformSync calls, three runs: live loops with no dead code enter the filter 0 times before and after. A dead two-name head calls find_identifiers 3 times on main and 0 times here, and the new check 3 times. A dead one-name pattern head makes the same 2 find_identifiers calls as main, plus 2 calls of the new check.
Release binary (llvm-size -A): .text 110,627,497 to 110,628,009 (+512 B), .rodata unchanged. should_keep_stmt_in_dead_control_flow 768 B to 859 B, plus three closures of the new check (171 B, 171 B, 275 B). The stripped binary has the same file size.
React Compiler (Bun.build with reactCompiler: true, one component per file): dead one-name heads compiled 84 of 84 before and after. Dead two-name heads: 0 of 28 on main (every output invalid), 24 of 28 here. The other 4 have a computed key, which the compiler declines in a live loop too.
bun build --compile --aot, 6 programs with a dead head, through test/aot/run-parallel.ts: 6 of 6 compile and print what bun <file> prints. On main 4 of the 6 fail under plain bun.
Cache: main writes one entry for a 4 KiB file with the dead loop. This PR does not replay it: the file prints ran and the entry is written once more. With the version left at 51 the old entry is replayed and the SyntaxError stays.
Left as it is
The for (;;) arm still passes its init through the var rewrite. for (var a, b; ;) is valid.
The filter still stops at the first statement it keeps. The body of a kept dead loop is not trimmed.
The printer still prints a missing expression as nothing. An assertion there was not added: a live yield with no operand prints through the same arm.
esbuild has the same two arms. No upstream report was filed.
Reverting any one of the three source edits fails at least one of the new tests. So do 12 weaker forms of the new check: first item only, last item only, no recursion, a count for each nesting level, a hole or an empty pattern counted as a name, no var check, an off-by-one, and a check that never fires.
…ritten, and print a dead require() as null
The dead-code filter keeps a dead `var` by rewriting its declaration to the
flat list of the names it declares. It did the same to the head of a for-in
or for-of loop. A loop head takes exactly one declaration, so a dead
`for (var [a, b] of x)` was printed as `for (var a, b of x)`: a SyntaxError
in a valid file.
The for-in and for-of arms now leave a head that declares two or more names
as it is written. A head that declares one name or none takes the same path
as before, so no output that was valid changes.
A `require("x")` in dead control flow was replaced with a missing
expression, which prints as nothing: `while (require("x"))` in a dead branch
became `while ()`, and a kept head `[a = require("x"), b]` would print as
`[a = , b]`. It is now `null`, as it is for `import()` and
`require.resolve()`, and as esbuild prints it.
The transpiler cache version is 52, because an older entry can hold the
invalid text.
CI, build 138054 (finished): no red test comes from this PR.
28 test files are red: 27 under test/aot/ and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. The same 28 files are red in the final build of the PR that merged last (ci: leave the SSH server out of the Linux images #47981, build 137815). This PR touches none of them.
Three of them fail the same way with a local build of main (b1305dd).
The size test reports 25,973,939 mapped bytes against a limit of 25,880,000. This PR adds 512 bytes of .text.
The other entries passed on a retry.
No test that this PR adds or touches failed on any lane, Windows included.
Dead-control-flow handling now preserves var initializers with multiple bound names in for-in and for-of heads. The change also adjusts null-expression construction, increments the runtime transpiler cache version, and adds tests for these cases.
Changes
Dead-control-flow handling
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Loop-head handling and validation src/js_parser/scan/scan_side_effects.rs, src/js_parser/p.rs, src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs, test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js, test/bundler/esbuild/dce.test.ts
The scanner preserves multi-name var initializers in dead for-in and for-of heads, while other heads use the existing simplification. Null expressions for non-running require calls are created through new_expr. The cache version increases to 52. Tests cover retained, simplified, and removed heads, plus runtime results.
Possibly related PRs
oven-sh/bun#20435: This PR also changes the runtime transpiler cache version to 52 for different output changes. Cache entries may not distinguish builds that contain only one of the two changes.
Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 24302
The change repairs dead-code output and invalidates older cached results. A narrow previously broken input remains unsupported, but no newly introduced merge-blocking failure was established.
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Review comments at @src/js_parser/scan/scan_side_effects.rs:
- Around line 587-598: Update should_keep_for_in_or_of_head and its
retained-declaration handling to strip expressions from dead binding patterns:
remove default initializers and replace computed keys with inert values, while
preserving declared names and a valid pattern. Keep the existing decision to
retain declarations that declare a second name and the fallback behavior for
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LGTM — a narrow, well-tested fix to dead-code trimming of for-in/for-of heads, plus a one-line parity change for a dead require().
What was reviewed:
should_keep_for_in_or_of_head / declares_second_name in src/js_parser/scan/scan_side_effects.rs: the binding walk mirrors the existing find_identifiers arms (BIdentifier/BArray/BObject), only triggers for var heads with 2+ names, and both the SForIn and SForOf arms route through the shared helper; the for(;;) init intentionally keeps the list rewrite since var a, b; is valid there.
The dead require("x") now returns E::Null, matching the sibling dead import() and require.resolve() early returns at src/js_parser/p.rs:1446 and :1584 and esbuild's ENullShared; the RuntimeTranspilerCache version bump to 52 covers the output change.
Checked whether a kept dead head with default/computed-key expressions is a new concern for use counts or bundle size — it is the same pre-existing behaviour as any other kept dead statement with an expression (e.g. while (g()) var a;), and dead-code refs were already excluded from record_usage.
Tests cover both minifySyntax states, in/of/for await, one-name vs. multi-name heads, nested containers, and a spawned runtime check with exact {stdout, stderr, exitCode, signalCode}.
Extended reasoning...
The change touches the JS parser's dead-control-flow statement filter (two new helpers of about 25 lines, both for-in/for-of arms rewired), swaps a hand-built EMissing for E::Null in the dead require() path, and bumps the runtime transpiler cache version; it touches no security-sensitive surface. The fix is conservative: the only new branch applies where the base already produced a SyntaxError, and the require() change aligns with the two sibling dead-import early returns in the same file and with esbuild. The test additions are extensive and cover the variant matrix, no CODEOWNERS entry covers these files, and the bug hunt ran dry with four candidates ruled out, so a human look is not needed.
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Problem
return; for (var [a, b] of x) ;throwsSyntaxError: Unexpected identifier 'of'. can only declare a single variable in an enumeration.bun buildwrites it too. Nobody reported it: a code read found it.should_keep_stmt_in_dead_control_flow(src/js_parser/scan/scan_side_effects.rs) keeps a deadvaras a flat name list, also in a for-in/for-of head:for (var a, b of x).require("x")printed as nothing (transpose_require,src/js_parser/p.rs).Fix
require("x")printsnull, like a deadimport(). Cache version 52 drops old entries with the invalid text.test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js,test/bundler/esbuild/dce.test.ts(8 tests fail on main). Other suites: Notes.yield;prints an empty expression.Background
var: the function sees its name.varstatement a list.Downsides
.of a private name #47722) still fails, as on main.require()change. 0 of 32,081test/node_modulesfiles change..text: +512 bytes. Cache entries are rebuilt once.Notes
Where it comes from
returnabove the loop, aconst DEBUG = falseguard in the same file, a dev-onlyprocess.env.NODE_ENVblock underbun build --production. The loop must be inside a function: at module level thevaris moved out of the loop before the filter runs.require()alone givesSyntaxError: Unexpected token ')'orSyntaxError: Must provide an expression as a while loop condition., with no pattern in the file.varwith zero identifiers instead of emittingvar;#31003 (an emptyvarlist in a dead branch).What a dead loop prints (inside a function,
minify.syntaxon)for (var [a, b] of x) ;for (var a, b of x) ;(SyntaxError)for (var [a = g()] of x) ;for (var a of x) ;for (var [] of x) ;for (var [] of x) { var y; }for (let [a, b] of x) { var y = a; }for (let [a, b] of x) var y;for (var [a, b] = x; a < b; a++) ;for (var a, b;a < b; a++) ;for (var a of require("x")) ;inif (false)for (var a of ) ;(SyntaxError)for (var a of null) ;esbuild (0.28.2)
--minify-syntaxit printsfor (var a, b of x)for a head with two names, which Node and esbuild reject, andfor (var a of x)for a one-name pattern. This PR prints the same text as esbuild for the one-name head.if (false)branch with the default options, so the defect shows there without any flag.require()asnull.Why a one-name head is not kept as written
The first version of this change kept every head as written. A dead one-name head then prints expressions that main drops. These three load on main and failed with that version:
for (var [a = "abc".length = 1] of x):SyntaxError: Left side of assignment is not a reference.(js_parser: keep assignment and delete targets as references #45658 and js_parser: fix string folds that read non-ASCII 8-bit text by byte or rewrite a write or delete target #47655 are open for the fold.)for (var [a = 1 .#p] of x)in a class:SyntaxError: Unexpected private name #p(js_printer: print a space between a number and the.of a private name #47722 is open for the print.)for (var [a = delete q] of x)in a.jsfile that Bun loads as a module:SyntaxError: Cannot delete unqualified property 'q' in strict mode.With two or more names main is always invalid, so that head cannot get worse.
Measurements (main b1305dd against this PR)
in/of/for await, 2 bodies, 12 contexts), each with the default options and withminify.syntax:Bun.Transpiler720 of 2592 on main, 0 here.Bun.build720 of 2592 on main, 0 here. JSC and V8 agree on every row. No output that is valid on main changes.test/node_modules(32,081.js/.mjs/.cjsfiles, 238.5 MB), release builds: 0 outputs change withBun.Transpilerand withBun.build(external: ["*"]), each with and withoutminify.syntax, and again withprocess.env.NODE_ENVdefined as"production".require("./missing.js")in 34 positions of anif (false)block: 21 files fail to load on main, 0 here. A kept head[a = require("x"), b]would print[a = , b]without this edit.Bun.build: 44 of 68 outputs invalid on main, 0 here. 8 of 68 valid outputs change (+30 bytes):g()tog(null),[,]to[null],for (;; )tofor (;null; )andfor (;; null). The missing file still adds no import record.transformSynccalls, three runs: live loops with no dead code enter the filter 0 times before and after. A dead two-name head callsfind_identifiers3 times on main and 0 times here, and the new check 3 times. A dead one-name pattern head makes the same 2find_identifierscalls as main, plus 2 calls of the new check.llvm-size -A):.text110,627,497 to 110,628,009 (+512 B),.rodataunchanged.should_keep_stmt_in_dead_control_flow768 B to 859 B, plus three closures of the new check (171 B, 171 B, 275 B). The stripped binary has the same file size.Bun.buildwithreactCompiler: true, one component per file): dead one-name heads compiled 84 of 84 before and after. Dead two-name heads: 0 of 28 on main (every output invalid), 24 of 28 here. The other 4 have a computed key, which the compiler declines in a live loop too.bun build --compile --aot, 6 programs with a dead head, throughtest/aot/run-parallel.ts: 6 of 6 compile and print whatbun <file>prints. On main 4 of the 6 fail under plainbun.ranand the entry is written once more. With the version left at 51 the old entry is replayed and the SyntaxError stays.Left as it is
for (;;)arm still passes its init through thevarrewrite.for (var a, b; ;)is valid.yieldwith no operand prints through the same arm.of) and stays open.Suites run with the debug build
test/bundler/transpiler/{transpiler,react-compiler,react-compiler-fixtures,react-compiler-fixtures-run,runtime-transpiler,simplifier-side-effects,function-tostring-require,preserve-use-strict-cjs},test/bundler/esbuild/{dce,default,importstar,lower,extra,ts,packagejson,splitting}.test.ts,test/bundler/bundler_{minify,cjs2esm,edgecase,drop,feature_flag,regressions,cjs,browser,bun,dynamic_import_dce,promiseall_deadcode,jsx,allow_unresolved,env,barrel,string,npm,plugin,import_meta_glob}.test.ts,test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts,test/cli/run/transpiler-cache.test.ts,test/js/node/missing-module.test.js,test/regression/issue/{31002,30887,28159}.test.ts.Reverting any one of the three source edits fails at least one of the new tests. So do 12 weaker forms of the new check: first item only, last item only, no recursion, a count for each nesting level, a hole or an empty pattern counted as a name, no
varcheck, an off-by-one, and a check that never fires.