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Problem

  • Bun.YAML.parse only ever instantiates Parser<Utf8> (src/parsers/yaml.rs:47), but the parser still carries Latin1 and Utf16 encodings: two Encoding impls, an EncodingKind tag, two trait methods the u8 impls mark unreachable!(), and match Enc::KIND arms at six call sites. None of it can run. ParseError::UnexpectedEof is never constructed either.
  • Three smaller items have no caller: Default for URLFormatter, seven From<_> for PredefinedColor impls, and byteLength in the vendored base64-js fallback.

Fix

  • Remove the Latin1 and Utf16 encodings. EncodingKind, Encoding::KIND, unit_from_u16 and as_u16_slice go with them, and each match Enc::KIND collapses to its Utf8 arm. The Encoding trait and Parser<Enc> stay (see Notes for the follow-up).
  • Remove ParseError::UnexpectedEof and the three items above.
  • Verified: bun run rust:check-all (12 targets), cargo check --workspace under each custom build cfg, bun bd. Ran the yaml, css color, browser bundler and source-lint suites.
  • No test: unreferenced code has no observable behavior.

Background

  • The workspace compiles with dead_code = "deny" and unreachable_pub = "deny", so rustc already rejects unused private items. It cannot see a pub item that no other crate imports. The candidates come from rewriting every pub to pub(crate) one crate at a time and reading the dead_code diagnostics, then checking the whole workspace with those rewrites so privacy errors show which items other crates use.
  • A method made private can silently resolve to a same-named trait method or Deref target. Every method candidate was also checked by hand for cross-crate call sites (Notes list what this caught).
  • The trait impls come from a relink of the debug build with --gc-sections --print-gc-sections, as in Remove dead code: 92 trait impls nothing calls, across 29 crates #39795.
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How the candidates were found:

  • Per crate: rewrite every pub to pub(crate), cargo check -p <crate> with --cap-lints=warn, collect the dead_code spans (25,952 raw spans across 99 crates). Then rewrite only those spans in the full tree and iterate cargo check --workspace --keep-going, reverting any item that a privacy, resolution or type error proves another crate uses (102 rounds until clean). The loop was repeated on x86_64-pc-windows-msvc, aarch64-apple-darwin, aarch64-linux-android, x86_64-unknown-linux-musl, aarch64-pc-windows-msvc and x86_64-unknown-freebsd, and under the bun_debug/bun_asan/bun_codegen_embed/socket_fault_injection cfgs, so an item used on one platform or in one build profile counts as live. 662 spans survived; 88 of them are already deleted by the 15 open dead-code PRs and were dropped.
  • bun_runtime (the staticlib) was swept the same way with its generated pub use re-exports kept public: 78 spans, almost all enum variants and struct fields.
  • The debug build was relinked with --gc-sections --print-gc-sections and without -rdynamic. Symbols dropped from every codegen unit and not present in the linked output gave 2,597 Rust candidates, of which 24 were hand-written trait impls. All but the PredefinedColor conversions were kept: Never: JobContext and NamedImportsType: Deref are needed for bounds, Bytes: Default is used on Windows, watcher::Error: From<bun_sys::Error> on macOS, Help: Default and SliceIterator by unit tests, Drop impls are never "called".
  • src/js/** and src/node-fallbacks/** were checked member by member (class methods, symbol keys, builtins, unbundled files). The tree is clean apart from byteLength here and kBindStreamsLazy, which Remove dead code from the JSC bindings, headers.h, the console builtin, and bun_jsc #40232 already removes.

False positives that the compiler-driven pass produces, all excluded by hand:

  • Inherent methods that shadow a trait or Deref method: the SQL SocketHandler::{on_open, on_close, on_end} (the impl_ns_socket_events_forward! macro calls them as Self::on_open, which resolves to the trait method being implemented when the inherent one is private), uws_sys::h2::Response::request_body_ended, ProcessHandle::kill, ZStr::as_ptr, __IsFreeze::IS_FREEZE (inherent-const specialization), ThreadPool::Worker (inherent associated type that rustc reports unused although three call sites use it).
  • Struct fields of MultiArrayList element types (JSMeta, InputFile, Store::Entry, Store::Node, ServerComponentBoundary): read through generated column accessors, never by name.
  • from_js_ref, css_name, platform_get and friends: macro expansions that are dead for one instantiation and live for another.
  • host_fn_this_value and the bindgen::Bindgen* types are emitted by src/codegen/generate-classes.ts and src/codegen/bindgenv2, and INTERNAL_MODULE_REGISTRY_FLAG, napi_status, ns_class and JSFunction visibility variants mirror C/C++ ABI values.

Overlap with open PRs:

Follow-up, not in this PR:

Left in place on purpose:

…d the JS builtins

The YAML parser only runs as Parser<Utf8>. Remove the Latin1 and Utf16
encodings, the EncodingKind tag, the Utf16-only trait methods, and the
match arms that selected between them.

Remove BlobExt::transfer, Channel::close in the parallel test runner,
Default for URLFormatter, the From<_> for PredefinedColor conversions,
the kBindStreamsLazy console method, and byteLength in the vendored
base64-js fallback. None of these has a caller.
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Updated 3:05 AM PT - Aug 31st, 2026

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The pull request removes obsolete formatting and color conversion APIs, simplifies the Base64 fallback helper, and changes YAML parsing to use UTF-8 only.

API and encoding cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
YAML UTF-8 encoding contract
src/parsers/yaml.rs
The YAML encoding API now supports only Utf8. Latin1, UTF-16, encoding-kind dispatch, and the dedicated UnexpectedEof variant were removed.
YAML UTF-8 parsing paths
src/parsers/yaml.rs
Numeric parsing, scalar strings, named escapes, and Unicode escapes now use UTF-8 byte sequences.
Formatting and color conversion cleanup
src/bun_core/fmt.rs, src/css/values/color.rs
The URLFormatter default implementation and direct colorspace-to-PredefinedColor conversions were removed.
Base64 helper cleanup
src/node-fallbacks/vendor/base64-js.js
The fallback now computes decoded length with _byteLength(validLen, placeHoldersLen).

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In `@src/parsers/yaml.rs`:
- Around line 5264-5267: Update the Encoding::literal documentation to describe
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Addressed the review comments: the Encoding::ch and Encoding::literal docs now name UTF-8 bytes as the input (543ab79), and the longer doc comments in the touched region are shortened or removed (7c6a71b, 161dd9a). No code change beyond the comments.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

  • 🟡 src/runtime/cli/test/parallel/Channel.rs — nit: The adopt_pipe doc comment still says "The pipe is closed explicitly in close() / Drop", but this PR removes Channel::close(), leaving Drop (and the read-error path) as the only teardown sites. Fix: update the comment to reference only Drop.

    Extended reasoning...

    Line 278-280 of the post-change file reads: "The pipe is closed explicitly in close() / Drop, and both sides exit via Global.exit / drive() returning, so the extra ref never holds the process open." The close() method this refers to is deleted at the former lines 494-519 by this same diff. On the base branch the comment was accurate; after merge it names a method that no longer exists. A future reader auditing why the ref'd pipe doesn't hold the process open will look for a close() that isn't there. Purely a doc-drift nit — no runtime behavior change, since Drop (lines 553-574) still performs uv::Pipe::close_and_destroy and close() had no callers anyway.

    Verification: nit — The doc comment on adopt_pipe at src/runtime/cli/test/parallel/Channel.rs:278-280 still reads "The pipe is closed explicitly in close() / Drop", but this same diff deletes Channel::close() (former lines 494-519). Only Drop (impl at line 553) remains as the teardown site the comment should name. The comment was accurate on the base branch and is made stale by this PR, so it…

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The adopt_pipe doc comment in Channel.rs now names Drop as the only pipe teardown (198d50b). Comment-only change.

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LGTM — purely subtractive dead-code removal with no behavior change on any live path.

What was reviewed:

  • Confirmed Parser<Enc> is only ever instantiated as Parser<Utf8>; each collapsed match Enc::KIND arm is byte-identical to its former Utf8 branch, and the Enc::literal doc/cap update correctly tracks the now-unconditional non-ASCII UTF-8 escape bytes.
  • Grepped for callers of every removed item (URLFormatter::default, kBindStreamsLazy, base64-js byteLength, BlobExt::transfer, Channel::close, the PredefinedColor From impls) — none exist.
  • Verified Channel's Drop already performs the pipe/socket teardown close() did, and that dropping the UvHandle import is sound because is_closing() was its only use.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR removes ~366 lines of unreachable code across seven files with ~30 lines added (all of which are collapsed-in-place versions of the surviving Utf8 branches, plus doc-comment adjustments). The largest change flattens the encoding-generic YAML parser to its sole instantiated encoding by deleting the Latin1/Utf16 Encoding impls, the EncodingKind tag, and the unit_from_u16/as_u16_slice trait methods whose u8 bodies were unreachable!(). The remaining six items are standalone pub symbols with no callers anywhere in the workspace: a manual Default impl, seven From<_> conversions, a Symbol-keyed console builtin method, an unexported helper in a vendored fallback, a Channel::close that duplicated Drop, and a BlobExt trait method.

Security risks

None. No input handling, validation, auth, crypto, or protocol code is touched. Every hunk is a deletion of code no live path could reach; the only added lines are the surviving arms of removed matches, unchanged in content. The kBindStreamsLazy Symbol was module-local inside createConsoleConstructor, so no user code could ever have keyed into it. The vendored base64-js change removes a function that was never exported from the module.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate — dead-code removal is low-risk in principle, but the review guidance explicitly warns that pub items and trait impls escape rustc's dead-code lints and that inherent methods can silently resolve to trait/Deref targets. I therefore grepped the tree for every removed symbol and for Parser<Latin1|Utf16> instantiations, and read the Drop for Channel impl to confirm it covers everything the removed close() did (on Windows it null-swaps and close_and_destroys the pipe; on POSIX it closes the socket). The one path that could leave a pipe already-closing was close() itself, so Drop's unconditional close_and_destroy cannot double-close. The UvHandle trait import removal is correct because is_closing() was the only method it supplied.

Other factors

The PR description documents a rigorous discovery method (per-crate pub→pub(crate) rewrites iterated to a fixpoint across six targets and four build cfgs, plus a --gc-sections relink for trait impls) and lists the false-positive classes it excluded by hand — this matches what I'd expect for a safe sweep and is consistent with what the code shows. bun run rust:check-all and the relevant test suites are reported as passing. No third-party CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews are outstanding; the only inline threads were bot lint comments on earlier iterations, and a new commit landed after the last review. The change is mechanical enough that human review beyond this is unlikely to surface anything new.

t added 2 commits August 31, 2026 07:02
…r::UnexpectedEof

ConsoleObject.ts (kBindStreamsLazy) is removed by #40232, and Channel::close
and BlobExt::transfer by #40557. Leave those to their PRs.

ParseError::UnexpectedEof is never constructed. Remove the variant and the
arm that mapped it. The yaml module doc no longer names a u16 unit.
Comment thread src/parsers/yaml.rs Resolved
@robobun robobun changed the title Remove dead code from bun_parsers, bun_core, bun_css, bun_runtime, and the JS builtins Remove dead code from bun_parsers, bun_core, bun_css, and the base64-js fallback Aug 31, 2026
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Restructured after self-review:

Diff is now 4 files, +28 -295.

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No test is added on purpose. Every removed item is unreferenced, so there is no behavior a test could observe before and after the change. test/internal/source-lints/CLAUDE.md asks for no dead-symbol lint tests, and the earlier sweeps of this kind (#39795, #40610, #40881) landed without one.

The code paths this PR rewrites in place are already covered: test/js/bun/yaml/yaml.test.ts round-trips the \N, \_, \L, \P escapes and the \U hex escapes whose match Enc::KIND arms collapse here, and the yaml test suite (2133 cases) passes on the debug build.

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LGTM — with the scope narrowed to the four files, this is a clean mechanical removal.

What was reviewed:

  • URLFormatter::default(): no callers remain; all three bun_core::fmt::URLFormatter { … } sites in src/runtime/server/mod.rs populate every field.
  • base64-js.js: byteLength was never exported (only toByteArray/fromByteArray are); buffer.js defines its own byteLength. The file header already notes manual conversion from upstream, so the vendored-read-only concern doesn't apply.
  • yaml.rs: no remaining Enc::KIND/EncodingKind/Latin1/Utf16 references; each collapsed site matches its original Utf8 arm byte-for-byte; ParseResultError::UnexpectedEof is still constructed at yaml.rs:1864 via the non-ParseError path, so removing only the ParseError variant is correct.
  • From<_> for PredefinedColor: grepped for PredefinedColor::from / typed .into() targets — none found; the linker-section methodology in the description is the right way to catch generic .into() sites.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR removes dead code across four files: the Latin1/Utf16 encoding machinery in src/parsers/yaml.rs (collapsing six match Enc::KIND sites to their UTF-8 arms and dropping the EncodingKind enum, two Encoding impls, two trait methods, and the unconstructed ParseError::UnexpectedEof variant), seven unused From<_> for PredefinedColor impls in src/css/values/color.rs, the manual Default for URLFormatter in src/bun_core/fmt.rs, and the unexported byteLength helper in src/node-fallbacks/vendor/base64-js.js. Net +28/-295. Since the earlier reviewed revisions, the PR was narrowed — the Channel.rs hunk that drew a bot comment is no longer in the diff, and the description now names the overlap with other open PRs.

Security risks

None. This is pure deletion of code that is provably unreachable (only Parser<Utf8> is ever instantiated, per the entry point at src/parsers/yaml.rs:47) or has no caller. No parsing, validation, or bounds-checking logic is weakened; the surviving UTF-8 arms are byte-identical to what executed before.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate, focused on the "removed thing still has a caller" failure mode that REVIEW.md flags for public items and trait impls. Each removal was checked independently: URLFormatter construction sites all name every field; byteLength in base64-js was a non-exported local (only toByteArray/fromByteArray are exported, and buffer.js imports * as base64 without touching it); no PredefinedColor::from(...) or typed .into() sites exist; ParseResultError::UnexpectedEof is still constructed elsewhere so only the intermediate ParseError variant is dead; and yaml.rs has zero remaining references to the removed encoding symbols. The collapsed match arms were compared against the base to confirm they are the literal Utf8 arms with no edits.

Other factors

No CODEOWNERS pattern matches these paths. No outstanding CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews from humans — only bot comments, all on lines that either match the current state or on a file since removed from the diff. The vendored-file concern is moot: the file's own header states it was already manually converted to an ES module for tree-shaking, so it is not a pristine upstream copy, and the deleted function is not part of its export surface. The PR description's methodology (per-crate pub→pub(crate) narrowing across six targets and four build cfgs, plus --gc-sections for trait impls) is exactly what REVIEW.md asks for when deleting public items, and bun run rust:check-all was run. The follow-up to de-genericize Parser<Enc> is correctly deferred behind the five open YAML PRs it would conflict with.

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