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Problem

  • Bun.markdown's latexMath and underline options do nothing, although both are documented (docs/runtime/markdown.mdx, bun.d.ts) and the terminal preset used by Bun.markdown.ansi() and bun ./file.md lists both:
    • Bun.markdown.html("$a+b$", { latexMath: true }) returns <p>$a+b$</p> (documented: <x-equation>a+b</x-equation>)
    • Bun.markdown.html("_x_", { underline: true }) returns <p><em>x</em></p> (documented: <u>x</u>)
  • latexMath: src/md/parser.rs adds $ to the mark character map, but nothing in src/md/inlines.rs handles a $ mark, so it falls through as text. Nothing ever emits SpanType::Latexmath / LatexmathDisplay.
  • underline: Options::to_flags() in src/md/root.rs drops the field because Flags (src/md/types.rs) has no underline, and nothing ever emits SpanType::U.
  • Neither option was ever implemented: the Zig parser this crate was ported from had the same gap, so this is not a regression. The HTML, ANSI, React and callback renderers all already handle the three span types; only the parser side is missing. md4c's test files for both extensions (test/js/bun/md/spec-latex-math.txt, spec-underline.txt) are checked in but were not in md-spec.test.ts's list.

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  • src/md/inlines.rs, collect_emphasis_delimiters: with latex_math, a run of one or two $ becomes a delimiter entry (emph_char == b'$'). It can open if it starts the slice or follows whitespace/punctuation, and close if it ends the slice or precedes whitespace/punctuation (md4c's rule; $5 and $10 stays text). Longer runs are text.
  • resolve_emphasis_delimiters hands $ entries to the new resolve_math_delim, which is md4c's md_analyze_dollar: a closer pairs with the most recent pending opener only if both runs have the same length ($ vs $$), otherwise it becomes a pending opener itself; a match consumes both runs, deactivates every delimiter between them, records the closer position on the opener (EmphDelim::close_pos, the one new field) and discards all pending openers, so spans never nest. When an emphasis/strikethrough pair resolves, pending $ openers inside it are discarded too (md4c's md_pop_openers), so emphasis and math cannot cross: whichever closes first wins, as in md4c.
  • The emit walk renders a matched opener as one atomic span: enter_span(Latexmath | LatexmathDisplay), the raw bytes up to the closer as TextType::Latexmath, leave_span, then skips past the closer. Unmatched runs are text. Because a span is only ever emitted at its opener, output is well formed even when another construct consumed the opener first.
  • src/md/html_renderer.rs and src/md/ansi_renderer.rs: TextType::Latexmath shares the TextType::Code arm, and in both renderers a newline inside the span becomes a space (md4c's output for the multi-line example in spec-latex-math.txt). The ANSI renderer did not do this for code spans either: a span continuing on the next line was written verbatim, so the continuation lost its list indent or quote gutter and the column count went stale. That was already wrong for multi-line code spans on main and would have become reachable for math through the terminal preset; the shared arm fixes both.
  • underline: Flags gains the field, to_flags passes it, and the emit walk gets an underline arm next to the strikethrough one: for a _ run with the flag set it emits one U span per consumed underscore, straight from the run's close_count / open_count, instead of the em/strong tags. Pairing is unchanged, so intra-word underscores, the rule of three, etc. behave as before. __x__ therefore renders <u><u>x</u></u>, which is md4c's documented output (spec-underline.txt example 2 has ___foo___ as three nested <u>). Using the counts rather than the per-run match-size arrays also keeps long runs exact: those arrays hold at most MAX_EMPH_MATCHES (6) entries, which is a pre-existing limitation of the em/strong output (Bun.markdown: emphasis runs with more than 6 matches emit unbalanced or truncated em/strong tags #39496) that underline does not inherit.
  • Terminal preset (Options::TERMINAL, used by ansi() and bun ./file.md): latex_math stays on, so math spans are now styled there ($x$ in magenta). underline is switched off explicitly. It was listed in the preset but never worked, so terminal output has always rendered _x_ / __x__ as italic / bold; making it live would change that for every document that uses underscore emphasis, with no opt-out (ansi() takes no parser options), and the preset author's intent (md4c's all-underscores semantic, or only __x__ as the old docs table said) is not recorded. Bun.markdown: decide whether the terminal preset (ansi(), bun file.md) should enable underline #39560 holds that decision; it also notes the ANSI U styling bug that would need fixing first. Two tests pin the terminal behavior as unchanged (ansi() keeps underscores as emphasis, and the bun ./file.md case). The ansi() JSDoc no longer claims underline.
  • Why this is the right behavior: the parser is a port of md4c, the renderers were written against md4c's span model (<x-equation> is md2html's output, "math" / display: true in the React renderer, $ styling in the ANSI renderer), and md4c's own test files for both extensions are already in the tree. The implementation was checked against md4c's current md_collect_marks / md_analyze_dollar / md_process_inlines; both spec files pass unmodified.
  • Cost when the options are off: $ is not a mark character and collect_emphasis_delimiters never pushes $ entries, so the default parsing path only sees EmphDelim grow from 64 to 72 bytes (it is copied once per block that contains emphasis delimiters); the ANSI renderer additionally scans each code span's bytes once for a newline. Every new resolution step is O(1) amortized; doubling the input doubles the time for six adversarial delimiter floods (see details).
  • Docs and types: the options table and the React overrides table (u, math) in docs/runtime/markdown.mdx, the JSDoc for both options, and a MathProps type carrying the display prop the React renderer already sets. test/integration/bun-types/fixture/markdown.ts compiles realistic usage.
  • Not changed here, tracked separately: hardSoftBreaks and collapseWhitespace are also documented options that do nothing (Bun.markdown: hardSoftBreaks and collapseWhitespace options are documented but do nothing #39491, being implemented in Bun.markdown: implement the hardSoftBreaks and collapseWhitespace options #39495); emphasis delimiters inside a wiki link target can pair with delimiters outside it (Bun.markdown: emphasis delimiters inside a wiki link target pair with delimiters outside it, producing unbalanced HTML #39492, pre-existing, fixed in Bun.markdown: do not pair emphasis delimiters across wiki link boundaries #39494). This PR and Bun.markdown: do not pair emphasis delimiters across wiki link boundaries #39494 are independent and land in either order: a math span is only ever emitted at its opener, so output stays well formed, and Bun.markdown: do not pair emphasis delimiters across wiki link boundaries #39494's skip in the collection phase covers $ runs too. Whichever of the two lands second should add exact cases for $ / _ runs on both sides of a wiki link boundary (noted on Bun.markdown: do not pair emphasis delimiters across wiki link boundaries #39494). Em/strong output of a run with more than six matches is wrong on main independently of this PR (Bun.markdown: emphasis runs with more than 6 matches emit unbalanced or truncated em/strong tags #39496). The terminal underline decision is Bun.markdown: decide whether the terminal preset (ansi(), bun file.md) should enable underline #39560.
  • Verification (the new tests fail on the unfixed build and pass with the fix; the negative-contract cases, such as options off and the preset's unchanged underscore rendering, pass both ways by design):
    • test/js/bun/md/md-spec.test.ts now runs spec-latex-math.txt and spec-underline.txt (6 examples fail before)
    • test/js/bun/md/md-edge-cases.test.ts: latexMath option / underline option blocks cover both flags on and off, both option spellings, precedence against code spans, links, images, emphasis, strikethrough, escapes, headings and table cells, non-ASCII neighbors, the ansi() preset, and a linear-time flood test, plus two long-run cases (14 underscores, and one run closed by seven closers) that the match-size arrays would truncate
    • ansi(): line breaks inside math and code spans become spaces (md-edge-cases.test.ts): list item, blockquote, soft-wrapped inline math, a multi-line code span (fails on main today) and a columns case; ansi() keeps underscores as emphasis pins the preset
    • test/js/bun/md/md-react.test.ts: math (with display) and u elements, default tags and component overrides
    • test/js/bun/md/md-render-callback.test.ts: math text reaches the text callback, _ no longer reaches emphasis
    • test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts: bun ./file.md styles math and still renders _x_ as italic
    • bun test test/integration/bun-types/bun-types.test.ts passes (and fails when the fixture's display assertion is changed)
    • The whole test/js/bun/md/ directory passes on the debug build; no existing snapshot changes

Background

  • Inline parsing in this crate runs per slice (a paragraph, heading or table cell, or a link label inside one) in two phases: collect_emphasis_delimiters records every *, _, ~ run as an EmphDelim, resolve_emphasis_delimiters pairs them with the CommonMark algorithm, and a second walk over the text emits spans at the recorded positions. This PR adds $ runs to that list; they are paired by their own rule but share the bookkeeping that stops emphasis and math from crossing each other.
  • md4c is the C CommonMark parser this crate was ported from. Its MD_FLAG_LATEXMATHSPANS produces MD_SPAN_LATEXMATH / MD_SPAN_LATEXMATH_DISPLAY with the span's text as MD_TEXT_LATEXMATH (verbatim, newlines as spaces, like a code span); its MD_FLAG_UNDERLINE makes underscores produce MD_SPAN_U. The SpanType and TextType enums here mirror those, and the <x-equation> HTML is what md4c's md2html prints.
  • Options (src/md/root.rs) is the user-facing option set; Flags (src/md/types.rs) is the subset the parser reads. An option that exists in Options but not in Flags is silently ignored, which is how underline was lost.
Flood timings on the debug (ASAN) build, n = 50k / 100k / 200k repetitions
openers then closers                            74 / 147 / 295 ms
mismatched pending opener                       37 /  77 / 145 ms
openers popped by emphasis                     409 / 832 / 1664 ms
alternating pairs                              158 / 322 / 646 ms
emphasis closers over pending math openers     133 / 268 / 526 ms
pending $$ openers and $ closers interleaved    76 / 155 / 309 ms

Inputs, in order: "$a "*n + "a$ "*n, "$$a " + "a$ "*n, "*$a $a $a $a a* "*n, "$a$ "*n, "$a "*n + "a* "*n, "$$a a$ "*n.


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fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: BUILD FAILED (no junit output)
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts test/js/bun/md/md-edge-cases.test.ts test/js/bun/md/md-react.test.ts test/js/bun/md/md-render-callback.test.ts test/js/bun/md/md-spec.test.ts
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/debug'
[1/180] gen .bind.ts → GeneratedBindings.cpp
[2/180] gen JSBuffer.lut.h
Generating /workspace/bun/build/debug/codegen/JSBuffer.lut.h from /workspace/bun/src/jsc/bindings/JSBuffer.cpp
[3/180] gen cpp.rs (cppbind)
[4/180] gen BunProcess.lut.h
Generating /workspace/bun/build/debug/codegen/BunProcess.lut.h from /workspace/bun/src/jsc/bindings/BunProcess.cpp
[5/180] gen generated_host_exports.rs
generated_host_exports.rs: 92 exports (host=3, lazy=10, generic=79, rust=0); 240 extern-C blocks audited
[6/180] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (12787ms)
Bundle modules (68ms)
Postprocesss modules (177ms)
Bundle Functions (952ms)
Generate Code (22ms)

[14.03s] Bundled "src/js" for development
  2819 kb
  198 internal modules
  13 native modules
  92 internal functions across 17 files
[6/180] ca
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release without fix: 1 skipped
bun test v1.4.0-canary.1 (9f0c2c74c)

test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts:
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders headings with underlines [4.92ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders bold, italic, strikethrough, inline code [3.12ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders math spans; underscores stay emphasis [2.71ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders ordered, unordered, and task lists [2.27ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders blockquotes and nested blockquotes [2.10ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders horizontal rules [2.18ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders fenced code block with JS syntax highlighting [2.01ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders fenced code block without language [2.05ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders link text with url fallback when no TTY [2.12ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > emits OSC 8 escape for links when hyperlinks are enabled [20.14ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders link with text + url pair fallback [4.57ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders images as alt text with link [3.04ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders wikilinks [3.31ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > falls back to literal text when `[[` never closes [2.85ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders simple table with alignment [2.19ms
... (truncated)
passes on PR (with fix)
ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts test/js/bun/md/md-edge-cases.test.ts test/js/bun/md/md-react.test.ts test/js/bun/md/md-render-callback.test.ts test/js/bun/md/md-spec.test.ts
bun test v1.4.0 (6e906e468)

test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts:
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders headings with underlines [171.73ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders bold, italic, strikethrough, inline code [115.50ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders math spans; underscores stay emphasis [119.48ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders ordered, unordered, and task lists [116.59ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders blockquotes and nested blockquotes [117.08ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders horizontal rules [111.13ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders fenced code block with JS syntax highlighting [116.53ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders fenced code block without language [125.89ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > renders link text with url fallback when no TTY [136.40ms]
(pass) bun <file.md> > emits OSC 8 escape for links when hyperlinks are enabled [1107.25ms]
(pass) bun <fil
... (truncated)

release with fix: 1 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 699ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/139] gen .bind.ts → GeneratedBindings.cpp
[2/139] gen JSBuffer.lut.h
Generating /workspace/bun/build/release/codegen/JSBuffer.lut.h from /workspace/bun/src/jsc/bindings/JSBuffer.cpp
[3/139] gen generated_host_exports.rs
generated_host_exports.rs: 92 exports (host=3, lazy=10, generic=79, rust=0); 240 extern-C blocks audited
[4/139] gen BunProcess.lut.h
Generating /workspace/bun/build/release/codegen/BunProcess.lut.h from /workspace/bun/src/jsc/bindings/BunProcess.cpp
[5/139] gen cpp.rs (cppbind)
[6/139] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (8484ms)
Bundle modules (145ms)
Postprocesss modules (344ms)
Bundle Functions (867ms)
Generate Code (29ms)

[9.89s] Bundled "src/js" for production
  2628 kb
  198 internal modules
  13 native modules
  92 internal functions across 17 files
[6/138] cargo bun_bin → libbun_rust.a (--target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)

  nightly-2026-07-20-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu unchanged - rustc 1.99.0-nightly (9f36de775 2026-07-19)

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docs/runtime/markdown.mdx                      |   6 +-
 packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts                    |  24 ++-
 src/md/ansi_renderer.rs                        |  22 ++-
 src/md/helpers.rs                              |   4 +
 src/md/html_renderer.rs                        |   4 +-
 src/md/inlines.rs                              | 117 +++++++++++++-
 src/md/parser.rs                               |   2 +-
 src/md/root.rs                                 |   4 +-
 src/md/types.rs                                |   1 +
 test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts       |   4 +
 test/integration/bun-types/fixture/markdown.ts |  27 ++++
 test/js/bun/md/md-edge-cases.test.ts           | 208 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 test/js/bun/md/md-react.test.ts                |  76 +++++++++
 test/js/bun/md/md-render-callback.test.ts      |  32 ++++
 test/js/bun/md/md-spec.test.ts                 |   2 +
 15 files changed, 510 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

gate history · 3 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 1

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docs/runtime/markdown.mdx                           2      2      0
packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts                         5      5      0
src/md/ansi_renderer.rs                             4      2      0
src/md/helpers.rs                                   1      1      0
src/md/html_renderer.rs                             1      1      0
src/md/inlines.rs                                  14     25      0
src/md/parser.rs                                    2      2      0
src/md/root.rs                                      2      4      0
src/md/types.rs                                     1      2      0
test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts            2      3      0
test/integration/bun-types/fixture/markdown.ts      0      2      0
test/js/bun/md/md-edge-cases.test.ts                6     11      0
test/js/bun/md/md-react.test.ts                     3      5      0
test/js/bun/md/md-render-callback.test.ts           1      1      0
test/js/bun/md/md-spec.test.ts                      1      1      0

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Markdown now supports optional underscore underline rendering and LaTeX math delimiters. The change updates parsing, HTML and ANSI rendering, React component types, documentation, callbacks, and regression tests.

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Delimiter parsing and emission
src/md/helpers.rs, src/md/inlines.rs, src/md/parser.rs
The parser collects $ and $$ delimiters, emits verbatim math spans, and renders enabled underscore matches as underline spans.
Option flags and rendered output
src/md/types.rs, src/md/root.rs, src/md/html_renderer.rs, src/md/ansi_renderer.rs
The underline option propagates through parser flags. Math text uses code-style newline replacement and escaping.
Public types and documentation
packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts, docs/runtime/markdown.mdx
Markdown options and React overrides document math rendering, underline rendering, and MathProps.display.
Parser, API, and integration validation
test/js/bun/md/*, test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts, test/integration/bun-types/fixture/markdown.ts
Tests cover delimiter rules, HTML, ANSI, callbacks, React overrides, TypeScript types, and specification inputs.

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Status: ready for review. Head a1970a1 is 9f0c2c7 plus an empty commit that re-ran CI: Buildkite #102211 has every test lane green (the previous run's single red, test/js/bun/util/inspect-error-leak.test.js on the x64-asan lane, is unrelated to this change and was handed to main-break triage). All review threads are resolved; the two spots worth a human look are called out in #39493 (comment), and the terminal underline decision is parked in #39560.

Reproduced on bun 1.4.0 and on main at 9a895c2:

$ bun -e 'console.log(Bun.markdown.html("$a+b$\n", { latexMath: true }))'
<p>$a+b$</p>
$ bun -e 'console.log(Bun.markdown.html("__x__\n", { underline: true }))'
<p><strong>x</strong></p>

Fail-before / pass-after was checked per file on the released binary vs this branch's debug build: md-spec.test.ts (6 examples from the two checked-in md4c spec files), md-edge-cases.test.ts, md-react.test.ts, md-render-callback.test.ts and test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts; the rest of test/js/bun/md/ is unchanged and green.

What review changed along the way (details in the description): underline is emitted from the consumed counts (second commit); the terminal preset keeps underscores as emphasis, with the decision parked in #39560, and multi-line code/math spans stay on one line in ANSI output (third commit). The two spots worth a human look are called out in #39493 (comment).

Related findings filed separately: #39491 (hardSoftBreaks / collapseWhitespace, being implemented in #39495), #39492 (emphasis across wiki link targets, fix in #39494; cross-boundary test rows go into whichever PR lands second), #39496 (em/strong runs with more than six matches) and #39560 (terminal underline decision).

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658-699: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve all matched underline delimiters.

Line 671 counts only sizes, but sizes stores at most MAX_EMPH_MATCHES entries. The resolver still consumes later matches. For 13 underscores on each side, the parser consumes all 13 delimiters but emits only 12 SpanType::U spans.

Pass the total opening and closing counts to these methods, or retain those counts for underline rendering. Add a regression case with more than six matches.

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In `@src/md/inlines.rs` around lines 658 - 699, Update emits_emph_open_tags and
emits_emph_close_tags so underline rendering uses the full delimiter counts
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it adds ~130 lines of new inline-delimiter resolution logic in src/md/inlines.rs (math-span pairing that interacts with the existing emphasis/strikethrough resolution loop, plus a new EmphDelim field), a human look at the parser changes would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed: resolve_math_delim and the math_openers stack for O(n²) risk under delimiter floods — the pop-on-emphasis-match and clear-on-math-match keep it amortized O(1), and the flood test covers it. Checked that the emit walk's jump past d.close_pos + d.count cannot desync delim_cursor from skipped inner entries. Checked underline's use of open_count/close_count instead of the capped open_sizes arrays fixes the >6-match imbalance the earlier revision had. Verified both flags are no-ops on the default path ($ never enters the mark map or delimiter list).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR implements the latexMath and underline options for Bun.markdown, which were documented and accepted but did nothing. The core change is in src/md/inlines.rs: $/$$ runs are collected as delimiter entries alongside */_/~, resolved by a new resolve_math_delim (md4c's md_analyze_dollar), and emitted as atomic verbatim spans in the emit walk; _ runs with underline enabled emit one SpanType::U per consumed underscore instead of em/strong tags. Supporting changes wire the underline flag through Flags/to_flags, make TextType::Latexmath share the code-span newline→space handling in the HTML renderer, add a is_unicode_whitespace_or_punctuation helper, and update docs/types. Test coverage is extensive: md4c's own spec files for both extensions, ~45 exact-output edge cases, React/callback/ANSI/CLI coverage, a type fixture, and a linear-time flood test.

Security risks

None identified. Math span content is HTML-escaped via the shared TextType::Code arm (write_html_escaped), verified by the "content is verbatim and HTML-escaped" test case. The new code paths only run when the opt-in flags are set. No user-controlled data reaches allocation sizes or indexing without going through the existing bounds-checked slice operations.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. This is parser logic in the inline-processing hot path with non-trivial interactions between delimiter types (math spans and emphasis must not cross; whichever closes first wins). The resolve_emphasis_delimiters loop now maintains an additional math_openers stack and pops from it when emphasis pairs resolve. While the implementation closely follows md4c's reference and the test coverage is unusually thorough (including adversarial flood inputs with doubling-time verification and the two long-run underline cases that regressed in an earlier revision), the delimiter-resolution algorithm is subtle enough that someone familiar with the md4c port should confirm the interaction semantics — particularly math_openers.clear() on any match and the prev_candidate[idx] = oi update.

Other factors

The PR description is exceptionally detailed with explicit fail-before/pass-after verification per test file, flood timings showing linear scaling, and separate issues filed for adjacent pre-existing bugs (#39491, #39492, #39496) rather than scope-creeping them in. The comment-cop bot findings were addressed in 43cb295 and all threads are resolved. An earlier revision's underline bug (using the 6-entry open_sizes arrays) was caught in review and fixed with regression tests. CI is still building (#100415). No prior human reviews to defer to.

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For whoever takes the human look at the two spots called out above:

  • math_openers.clear() on a match is md4c's DOLLAR_OPENERS.top = -1 in md_analyze_dollar (it is what makes $$foo $bar$ baz$$ render the inner span and leave the outer $$ as text, spec-latex-math.txt example 2). Popping only the matched opener would let the outer $$ pair up afterwards and swallow the inner span.
  • prev_candidate[idx] = oi mirrors what the emphasis path does after its own matches: every entry strictly between the $ opener and closer has just been deactivated, so a later emphasis closer walking the candidate chain can hop over the span in one step. Correctness does not depend on it (a walk through the dead entries unlinks them one by one); it only keeps that walk amortized O(1). The math pairing itself never consults the chain, only math_openers.

CI is green on 43cb295 (Buildkite #100415).

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it adds ~160 lines of new delimiter-resolution logic to the inline parser (with subtle interactions between $ and emphasis/strikethrough pairing), and the author has flagged two spots (math_openers.clear() and prev_candidate[idx] = oi) for a human look, a maintainer pass on resolve_math_delim and the terminal-preset underline decision (#39560) would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • resolve_math_delim against the described md4c md_analyze_dollar semantics; the six flood shapes stay linear (each match's deactivation range is bounded by openers pushed since the last clear).
  • The emit-walk math arm: only fires when d.pos == i && d.open_count > 0, so close_pos is always set and slice bounds hold; unmatched/inactive $ runs fall through as text.
  • Underline emitting from open_count/close_count (not the capped open_sizes/close_sizes arrays) — the 14-underscore and seven-closer regression tests cover this.
  • Options::TERMINAL flipping underline to false is behavior-preserving (the flag never worked before), pinned by two tests.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR implements two documented-but-nonfunctional Bun.markdown options: latexMath ($inline$ / $$display$$ → <x-equation>) and underline (underscore emphasis → <u>). The parser side was never written; the renderers already handled the span types. Changes span src/md/inlines.rs (delimiter collection, resolution, emission), src/md/types.rs + src/md/root.rs (flag plumbing), src/md/html_renderer.rs + src/md/ansi_renderer.rs (TextType::Latexmath shares the code-span newline→space arm), docs, .d.ts, and six test files.

Security risks

None identified. Markdown input is untrusted, but the new $ handling follows the same shape as existing ~/*/_ delimiter collection: byte-index arithmetic within a bounds-checked slice, no allocation sized by unvalidated counts. HTML output for math content routes through the existing write_html_escaped path. The linear-time flood test guards against DoS via delimiter floods.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. The core change is ~160 lines of new logic in the CommonMark emphasis-resolution algorithm — one of the trickier parts of markdown parsing. resolve_math_delim implements md4c's md_analyze_dollar and interacts with the existing emphasis resolver via shared prev_candidate / active bookkeeping and a new math_openers stack that's popped when emphasis pairs close inside it. The interactions ("whichever closes first wins", no nesting, same-length-only pairing) are subtle enough that the author left an explanatory note for human reviewers on two specific lines. The terminal preset change (underline: false) is behavior-preserving but represents a deferred design decision (#39560).

Other factors

Test coverage is exceptionally thorough: both md4c spec files now run in md-spec.test.ts, ~45 exact-output edge cases in md-edge-cases.test.ts (options on/off, precedence vs code spans/links/emphasis/strikethrough, non-ASCII flanking, headings, table cells, escapes), a linear-time flood test with three adversarial shapes, React/callback/CLI/types coverage, and two regression tests for the MAX_EMPH_MATCHES cap that the first revision hit. The ANSI newline→space change for code spans is a small pre-existing bugfix that's now tested. All comment-cop threads are resolved and CI was green on 43cb295. The bug-hunting system found nothing.

Despite the quality, this is not a simple/mechanical change — it's a new algorithm with cross-cutting resolver interactions and a parked user-facing decision, so deferring to a maintainer for the final look on resolve_math_delim and the preset choice.

Both options were documented, accepted by the option parser and turned on
by the terminal preset, but the inline parser never produced the spans
they describe: `$` was added to the mark character map and then fell
through as text, and `underline` was dropped in Options::to_flags because
Flags had no such field. The HTML, ANSI, React and callback renderers
already handled SpanType::Latexmath, LatexmathDisplay and U.

`$` runs of one or two dollars are now collected alongside the emphasis
delimiters and paired up with md4c's md_analyze_dollar rules: a run can
open only after whitespace or punctuation and close only before them, a
closer pairs with the most recent pending opener only when both runs have
the same length, and a match discards every pending opener, so math spans
never nest. Delimiters inside a matched span are deactivated and pending
math openers inside a resolved emphasis span are discarded, mirroring
md4c's md_pop_openers. The walk emits a matched span atomically with its
content as TextType::Latexmath; the HTML renderer turns newlines inside
it into spaces like it does for code spans.

With `underline`, `_` runs still pair up by the CommonMark rules but each
matched underscore becomes one U span instead of em/strong, as in md4c's
MD_FLAG_UNDERLINE.

md4c's spec-latex-math.txt and spec-underline.txt, which were already
checked in, now run as part of md-spec.test.ts.
The em/strong emitter works from the per-run list of match sizes, which
holds at most MAX_EMPH_MATCHES entries, so a long underscore run lost
matches past the sixth and a run consumed by more than six closers came
out unbalanced. Underline does not need the grouping into 1s and 2s: one
U span per consumed underscore is exactly open_count / close_count, which
also keeps the emit helpers unchanged.

Also trims the comments added by the previous commit to one line each.
…code and math spans

The terminal preset has listed underline since the parser landed, but the
option never did anything, so ansi() and `bun file.md` have always rendered
underscores as emphasis. Making the flag live would change that for every
document that uses _emphasis_, with no opt-out, so the preset now says
underline: false explicitly and #39560 holds the decision.

A code or math span that continues on the next line reaches the ANSI
renderer as one chunk with the line break inside it. write_styled emits it
verbatim, so the continuation lost its list indent or quote gutter and the
column count went stale. The span now becomes one line, as in the HTML
renderer; this was already wrong for multi-line code spans and became
reachable for math through the preset.
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In `@src/md/ansi_renderer.rs`:
- Around line 704-710: In the rendering code around the one_line buffer, replace
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Comment thread src/md/ansi_renderer.rs Resolved
The renderers record allocation failure in OutputBuffer::oom instead of
aborting, and render_to_ansi turns the flag into ParserError::OutOfMemory.
The buffer that joins a multi-line code or math span into one line is
output-sized staging data, so it has to grow the same way.
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Follow-up to the full re-review after the rebase:

  • The ANSI staging buffer now grows through try_extend, so an allocation failure while joining a multi-line code/math span lands on OutputBuffer::oom like every other staging buffer in the renderer and render_to_ansi reports OutOfMemory (9f0c2c7).
  • The stderr suggestion on the bun ./file.md test was withdrawn in-thread: the test uses the file's shared runMd() helper, which intentionally does not assert stderr.

The rebase itself (ac01f33) had one conflict: #39795 removed the Flags::DEFAULTS block that the first commit had added a line to; main's deletion was kept, and only the new Flags.underline field remains in types.rs. No behavior changes since 6573a6b apart from the OOM path above; the md and entrypoint suites pass on the rebased debug build.

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it adds ~120 lines of new delimiter-resolution logic to inlines.rs that interacts with the existing emphasis algorithm (deactivating inner delimiters, popping math_openers when emphasis closes, prev_candidate chain updates), and the author flagged two spots for a human look, a maintainer pass on the parser side would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • resolve_math_delim and the $ collection/emit paths against the md4c semantics described (same-length pairing, math_openers.clear() on match, verbatim span emitted whole at its opener) — matches the spec-file expectations and the flood tests are linear.
  • Underline emit from open_count/close_count (not the capped open_sizes/close_sizes arrays) — the 14-underscore and 7-closer regression cases cover the earlier finding.
  • The ANSI try_extend follow-up for the multi-line span staging buffer, and that TextType::Latexmath shares the code-span newline→space handling in both renderers.
  • The Options::TERMINAL preset keeping underline: false (behavior-preserving; decision parked in #39560) and the tests pinning that.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Implements two documented-but-never-working Bun.markdown options by adding $/$$ math-span delimiter handling and _-as-<u> emission to the inline parser. Touches src/md/inlines.rs (the bulk: collection, resolution via a new resolve_math_delim, and emit-phase handling), types.rs/root.rs (plumb the underline flag), html_renderer.rs/ansi_renderer.rs (TextType::Latexmath shares the code-span newline→space arm; ANSI staging buffer grows through try_extend), plus docs, .d.ts, and ~300 lines of tests across all four renderers, the md4c spec files, and a types fixture.

Security risks

None identified. Math span content is emitted as TextType::Latexmath and routed through the same HTML-escaping path as TextType::Code; the test "content is verbatim and HTML-escaped" pins &/</> escaping. The flanking rule reads adjacent bytes via existing decode_utf8/decode_utf8_backward helpers with the same bounds guards used for emphasis. The linear-time flood test guards against a DoS regression on adversarial $ inputs.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. This is a parser algorithm change, not a mechanical fix: resolve_math_delim runs interleaved with the CommonMark emphasis resolver, and correctness depends on both sides agreeing on which delimiters are dead (the active = false sweep inside a matched span, the math_openers.pop() when an emphasis pair closes, and the prev_candidate[idx] = oi hop). The author's follow-up comment explains both non-obvious lines against md4c's md_analyze_dollar, and the spec-file + precedence tests ("emphasis closing inside a pending math span wins", "math closing inside a pending emphasis wins", the inner-pair-drops-outer-opener case) exercise the crossings, but a maintainer familiar with the emphasis resolver should confirm the interleaving is what they want.

Other factors

  • The author explicitly requested a human look at two spots (math_openers.clear() and the prev_candidate update), which alone is reason not to auto-approve.
  • The Options::TERMINAL preset flips underline from true (never worked) to explicit false, with the design decision parked in #39560 — behavior-preserving today, but a product decision a human should be aware of.
  • Review threads are all resolved: comment-cop trimmed, the earlier open_sizes/close_sizes cap finding fixed with regression tests, CodeRabbit's try_extend finding addressed in 9f0c2c7, and the stderr-assertion suggestion withdrawn.
  • Test coverage is thorough (both spec files now run, both option spellings, on/off, precedence vs code spans/links/emphasis/strikethrough, headings, table cells, non-ASCII neighbors, ANSI multi-line spans, React/callback renderers, flood test). CI on the current head shows one unrelated failure (inspect-error-leak.test.js on x64-asan).

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it adds ~120 lines of new delimiter-resolution logic to the CommonMark emphasis algorithm in inlines.rs and makes a user-visible preset decision (turning underline off in Options::TERMINAL, parked in #39560), a human look would still be worthwhile — the author also flagged two spots for one.

What was reviewed:

  • resolve_math_delim and the $ collection/emit paths against md4c's md_analyze_dollar semantics; the math_openers pop when emphasis pairs, and prev_candidate chain updates — no crossing/quadratic cases found.
  • Underline emission from open_count/close_count (not the capped *_sizes arrays) — long-run balance holds; the 14-underscore tests cover it.
  • ANSI newline→space staging buffer now goes through try_extend so OOM lands on OutputBuffer::oom; HTML renderer's TextType::Latexmath shares the code-span escape path.
  • Checked that collect_emphasis_delimiters skips $ runs inside code spans/HTML tags via the existing skip loop, and that $ runs of length >2 or with neither open/close capability are never pushed.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR implements two documented-but-inert Bun.markdown options: latexMath ($...$ / $$...$$ → <x-equation> spans) and underline (underscore emphasis → <u>). The core change is in src/md/inlines.rs (~117 lines): $ runs are collected as EmphDelim entries with md4c's flanking rule, resolved by a new resolve_math_delim (only same-length runs pair; a match clears all pending openers and deactivates every delimiter between opener and closer), and emitted whole at the opener during the walk. Underline is a small branch in the existing emphasis emit path that emits one U span per consumed underscore from open_count/close_count. Supporting changes: Flags.underline plumbed through to_flags(), TextType::Latexmath shares the code-span newline→space arm in both HTML and ANSI renderers, the ANSI staging buffer grows via try_extend, docs/types updated, and Options::TERMINAL explicitly sets underline: false (was true but never worked). Tests span md4c spec files, ~45 edge-case rows, React/callback/entrypoint coverage, and a linear-time flood test.

Security risks

None identified. This is markdown parsing with no exec, no filesystem, no network. Math span content is HTML-escaped through the same write_html_escaped path as code spans. The flood test and the description's timing table demonstrate linear behavior on adversarial delimiter inputs, so no new algorithmic-complexity DoS surface. All indexing into content uses positions derived from the same slice's collection phase (d.close_pos, d.count), and Rust bounds checks would catch any miscount.

Level of scrutiny

High. The change integrates a new delimiter type into the CommonMark emphasis resolution algorithm, which is one of the more delicate parts of any markdown parser — the interactions between math openers, emphasis pairing, prev_candidate chain maintenance, and active deactivation are subtle. The PR is exceptionally well-documented (mechanism proofs, md4c line references, flood timings) and comprehensively tested (spec files pass unmodified, precedence vs. code/links/emphasis/strikethrough, non-ASCII neighbors, headings/tables), which raises confidence considerably. But this is still non-trivial algorithm code, not a mechanical change.

Other factors

  • The author's own status comment explicitly flags "two spots worth a human look" (the math_openers.clear() on match and the prev_candidate[idx] = oi update), and explains both in a follow-up — a maintainer should confirm they agree with that reasoning.
  • The Options::TERMINAL change (underline: true → false) is a deliberate design decision to preserve current terminal output, tracked in #39560. It's the right conservative call, but a human should be aware they're signing off on it.
  • All CodeRabbit findings were addressed (the try_extend OOM path) or withdrawn (the stderr assertion). Comment-cop threads are resolved. CI was green on the pre-rebase head.
  • The EmphDelim struct grows by one usize field (close_pos), which the description accounts for.

Given the algorithmic complexity and the explicit design decision, this exceeds the bar for auto-approval even though the review found no bugs.

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#43745)

### Problem
- 16 struct fields in 11 crates are never read. Two options are never
set: `BufferWriter.append_null_byte` is never `true`,
`TransposeState.import_record_tag` is never `Some`.
- No lint reports them. rustc's `dead_code` pass counts `x.f = v` as a
use of `f`. hawk counts the initializer as a reference.

### Fix
- Delete each field with its initializers and stores, and the two
branches that the options guard. 18 files, 105 lines removed.
- Candidates come from a compiler probe: `#[deprecated]` on 12,134
struct fields, `cargo check --force-warn deprecated` for Linux, Windows,
and macOS, then a syn pass marks each use as read or write. 134 fields
have no read. Most stay (Notes).
- Verified: `bun bd`, `bun run rust:check-all` (12 of 12 targets),
`cargo check --workspace --all-targets`, and the tests in the Notes.
- Self-reviewed: 4 concerns raised, 2 addressed. Rejected as outside a
deletion: the now vestigial `written_without_trailing_zero()` and an
older stale comment.

### Background
- `MultiArrayList<T>` keeps each field of `T` in its own column. Code
reads a column by name as a string (`items::<"name", _>()`), so the
compiler sees no read. Those fields stay.
- `BufferWriter` is the JS printer's output buffer. `done()` could
append a NUL byte. No caller asks for it.

### Downsides
- `bun_core::output::Source` becomes `Send + Sync`, because its raw
pointer fields are gone. It lives in a `thread_local!` only.
- The `bun_resolver::Result` in `_resolve` now drops when `_resolve`
returns. It has no `Drop` effect: paths are borrowed, fds are `Copy`.

<details><summary>Notes</summary>

#### Removed, one line each
- `bun_core::output::Source`: `buffered_stream`,
`buffered_error_stream`, `stream`, `error_stream` (`*mut io::Writer`).
`init()` cached them, nothing read them. The accessors of the same names
return `*_backing.new_interface()`, which is a pointer cast with no side
effect.
- `bun_bundler`: `InputFileInfo.import_count` (`MetafileBuilder.rs`).
- `bun_install`: `SecurityScanSubprocess.stderr_data` (an empty `Vec`
that is never filled, the scanner's stderr is inherited),
`PackageManager.root_progress_node`. The `progress.start(b"", 0)` call
stays, because it starts the progress root.
- `bun_js_parser`: `PropertyOpts.async_range`,
`ScanPassResult.approximate_newline_count`,
`TransposeState.import_record_tag`. #16624 replaced the only setter of
the tag with `import_loader`, which stays.
- `bun_jsc`: `VirtualMachine.has_terminated` (its readers were debug
panics in `enqueue_task_concurrent`, which #37075 removed),
`ResolveFunctionResult.result` (seven stores, no read). Nothing borrows
from the stored value: `path` and `query_string` point into the
resolver's arena and the specifier.
- `bun_js_printer`: `BufferWriter.append_null_byte`, with the seven `=
false` stores in `bun_jsc` and `bun_runtime`.
- `bun_libarchive`: `BufferReadStream.reading`.
- `bun_runtime`: `WindowsState.is_server` (`ipc.rs`, Windows only). Its
last reader went away in #18688, before the Rust port.
- `bun_csrf`: `GenerateOptions.encoding`. `csrf_jsc.rs` encodes the
token itself, and `VerifyOptions.encoding` stays.
- `bun_resolver`: `DataURL.url` (always `String::EMPTY`).
- `bun_s3_signing`: `S3CredentialsWithOptions.virtual_hosted_style`. No
code names it. Every reader uses `credentials.virtual_hosted_style` on
the inner `S3Credentials`.

#### Passed the probe, kept on purpose
- `MultiArrayList` columns: fields of `JSMeta`, `File`, `InputFile`,
`BundledAst`, `Entry`, `Node`, `WatchItem`, `LineOffsetTable`,
`ServerComponentBoundary`, and others.
- Owners of memory that other fields borrow:
`ParseResult.source_contents_backing`, `LinkerContext.unique_key_buf`,
`OutputFile.owned_src_path_text`, `HTTPResponseMetadata.owned_buf`,
`PackageJSON.source_contents` and `json_tape`,
`MatchedRoute.pathname_backing`, `SignResult.content_md5`,
`KEventWaker.machport_buf`.
- Values whose drop has an effect: `Repl.last_error` (a GC protect),
`SecurityScanSubprocess.process`, `Watcher.thread`.
- Options that are unfinished features or open bugs, not dead code:
`md::Options.hard_soft_breaks` and `underline` (#39495, #39493),
`jsc::virtual_machine::Options.dns_result_order` (#40703),
`P.has_top_level_return` (#40840), `ReactRefresh.last_hook_seen` and
`force_reset`, `DebugOptions.dump_environment_variables` (the
`--dump-environment-variables` flag is parsed and ignored).
- Kept by a comment in the source:
`AllocatorConfiguration.long_running`, `DumpStackTraceOptions.skip_*`,
`NameOfSymbol.has_property_key_comment`.
- Removal needs more than a deletion: `PostgresSQLQuery` `Flags.is_done`
(set by the JS `done()` call), `WorkerPipe.done` (leaves two empty
reader callbacks), `WTFTimer.repeat` (leaves an unused FFI parameter),
`MaxHeapAllocator.len` (leaves an empty `reset()`),
`ReadToEndResult.err` (callers drop read errors, which looks like a
bug), `Subcommand::Pack` with `PACK_PARAMS` (`bun pm pack` runs as
`Subcommand::Pm`, so the pack help text is unreachable).

#### Self-review
Three independent read-only passes tried to prove each deletion wrong
(readers through raw pointers, `offset_of!`, C++ layout mirrors, macros,
other `cfg`s, unit tests, the Zig originals, drop effects). None found a
reader. Concerns raised: the `Send + Sync` change of `Source` (now in
Downsides), the style of the kept `progress.start` call (now `let _ =`,
as in `install_with_manager.rs`),
`BufferWriter::written_without_trailing_zero()` (nine callers, it only
strips NUL bytes that the printer never appends now, a follow-up), and a
comment above `ResolveFunctionResult.path` that names a function which
no longer exists (it predates this change).

#### Other scans of this run, all clean or already in an open pull
request
- A relink of the debug binary with `--gc-sections --print-gc-sections`,
and a zero-mention identifier index over `src/`, `packages/`, `scripts/`
and `build/debug/codegen/`.
- `macro_rules!` without an invocation, Cargo features that nothing
enables, `#if 0` and never-true `#if` blocks in the C++ bindings,
patches that no dependency script applies, unused exports under
`scripts/`, `tsc --noUnusedLocals` over `src/js` and `scripts/`.
- A syn scan for enum variants that no expression constructs. The hits
are FFI code tables, derive-constructed variants, or already claimed.

#### Overlap with the open dead-code pull requests
- Every removed line was checked per file against the diffs of the 36
open dead-code pull requests. None of them deletes these lines. Several
touch the same files in other places (`output.rs`, `VirtualMachine.rs`,
`parser.rs`, `p.rs`, `js_printer/lib.rs`, `jsc_hooks.rs`,
`PackageManager.rs`, `data_url.rs`).

#### Tests run with the debug build
`test/js/bun/util/csrf.test.ts` (31 pass),
`test/bundler/metafile.test.ts` (65 pass), `test/js/bun/archive.test.ts`
(108 pass), `test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js` (222 pass),
`test/js/bun/resolve/import-empty.test.js`,
`test/js/bun/resolve/esModule.test.ts`,
`test/cli/install/bun-install-security-provider.test.ts` (43 pass),
`test/internal/source-lints/` (195 pass). Also a `data:` URL import, and
`bun install` under a pty so that the progress root starts.

No test is added. The change deletes fields that nothing reads, so there
is no behavior to assert, and `test/internal/source-lints/CLAUDE.md`
asks for no tests that pin dead symbols.

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A note for the rebase of this pull request: #46402 converts the line ending of a code span in the parser, for every renderer, and deletes the TextType::Code arm of HtmlRenderer::text.

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