[robobun]

Problem

• console.log(it) uses a Map or Set iterator up: it.next() is { done: true }, and an own next getter runs. Node.js does neither.
• So do the bun repl echo, a test.each title, a failing matcher and an ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE message. No user reported it.
• The native formatter gives the iterator to JSValue::for_each, which runs it (src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs:4669, :971, src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:6420). util.inspect copies the collection with Array.from (src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts:2942) and never returns when next is replaced.

Fix

• One reader in src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.cpp steps private copies of the iterator with the engine's nextWithAdvance. The caller's iterator does not move and no user code runs.
• Two arms use it: jsFunctionPreviewEntries (util.inspect, Console#table) and Bun__inspect__forEachRemainingEntry (the Rust formatter). The first has an entry in the table that tells the --aot compiler what a native function does.
• Verified: 43 new tests in 9 files (main fails 40), a source lint and an --aot program. Self-reviewed: 11 concerns raised, 10 addressed.

Background

• A Map or Set iterator holds its collection and a position. nextWithAdvance is the step behind next().
• Considered a branch inside JSValue::for_each: it changes expect(it).toContain, whose job is to iterate.

Downsides

• console.log(map.entries()) peaks at 584 MB for 1e7 entries, was 431 MB.
• A print no longer empties an iterator: a Set of 6 iterators over itself prints 313,138 bytes (1,426 before). An iterator at its end stays open. Node.js closes it.
• Two texts change. new Console().table(map.entries()) prints Key and Values columns, as Node.js does. A one-line Set iterator prints SetIterator { 3 }, not SetIterator { 3}.

Notes

Repro

const it = new Map([[1, 2], [3, 4]]).entries();
console.log(it);
console.log(JSON.stringify(it.next()));
// bun 1.4.3:  MapIterator { [ 1, 2 ], [ 3, 4 ] }   then  {"done":true}
// node 26.3:  [Map Entries] { [ 1, 2 ], [ 3, 4 ] } then  {"value":[1,2],"done":false}
// this PR:    MapIterator { [ 1, 2 ], [ 3, 4 ] }   then  {"value":[1,2],"done":false}

const s = new Set([1]).values();
Object.defineProperty(s, "next", { get() { console.log("next was read"); }, configurable: true });
console.log(s);
// bun 1.4.3:  "next was read", then the print throws TypeError
// this PR:    SetIterator { 1 }

The same holds for keys(), values() and entries(), for a value nested in an object or an array, for %o, console.dir, console.error, Bun.inspect, the global console.table and Bun.inspect.table. util.inspect(it) after it.next() printed the entry that it already yielded, and with a replaced %MapIteratorPrototype%.next it ran without end. No user reported either. A code read found them, with #42264.

Reach

No user reported this. The drain has shipped since bun-v1.0.8 (#6778). On main it happens wherever native code formats the value, also with no print in the program:

• bun repl: the echo of const it = new Map([[1, 2]]).entries() leaves it done.
• A test.each or describe.each title with %p or $name: the title is formatted before the body runs, so a correct body gets an iterator with nothing left.
• A failing matcher: 60 matcher names use a Map iterator up on main, 56 of them only to build the message. With this PR 4 do: toBeEmpty, toBeOneOf, toContain and toContainEqual, which iterate by contract.
• An error message that names a rejected argument: 8 of 8 node: calls that I tried, such as fs.openSync(path, it) and hash.setDefaultEncoding(it). With this PR 0, and Node.js 0.
• console.error of an error that has the iterator as a property.

#44268 (dylan-conway) also read a printed iterator from its collection, as one part of a larger change (FormatterReads.cpp). It was closed unmerged on 2026-10-27. #46729, which followed it, does not carry that part.

The design

• One reader, two arms. copyOf in UtilInspect.cpp copies the four internal fields of the iterator into a private iterator, and remainingEntries steps such a copy with nextWithAdvance. It walks one copy to count what is left, reserves a buffer of that size, and fills it from a second copy. No Bun code names the storage of a Map or a Set.
• The entries are copied before the first one is formatted, because formatting can run user code (inspect.custom) that changes the collection. Node.js does the same.
• An entries() pair reaches the Rust callback as the [key, value] array that next() makes, so MapIteratorCtx and print_array are not edited.
• Formatter::print_map_iterator_like calls the arm directly. TablePrinter and the AggregateError.errors walk go through for_each_listed, which sends a Map or Set iterator to the arm and every other value to JSValue::for_each. TablePrinter::init no longer reads Symbol.iterator from such an iterator.
• Tag::MapIterator and Tag::SetIterator join the cycle detection. A print that does not use the iterator up can meet it again inside its own entries. That shape now prints [Circular].
• A Set iterator that is printed on one line gets the closing space that a Map iterator has: SetIterator { 3 }, was SetIterator { 3}. The guard label == "MapIterator" came from the port. A reviewer asked that the new tests do not pin the text without the space.
• JSValue::for_each, is_iterable, every printed Map and Set, and the matchers toContain, toContainEqual, toBeEmpty and toBeOneOf keep their code.
• The AggregateError.errors arm has no producer: new AggregateError(iterable) stores an Array, so an iterator is in errors only after a script assigns one. The arm is there so that no native printer runs a Map or Set iterator.
• test/internal/source-lints/printer-for-each-door.test.ts allows JSValue::for_each in ConsoleObject.rs and VirtualMachine.rs only inside for_each_listed and the two walks of a Map or a Set itself. It fails on main's two files and names the three call sites.
• The print arm has the shape of the iterator arm in One value formatter for console, Bun.inspect, the error printer and bun:test #44268.

The reader went stale once already

The first push of this PR walked the storage itself, a copy of JSMapIterator::nextWithAdvance. Main's WebKit then gave a Map or a Set compact storage in a process that runs AOT-compiled code. The copy still compiled and cast the storage to the ordinary table: util.inspect(map.entries()) aborted in an executable built with --compile --aot (ASSERTION FAILED: !source || is<Target>(*source) at UtilInspect.cpp:142, exit 134). An earlier comment of mine on this PR said that a WebKit change could only break the reader at compile time. That was wrong. The reader now calls the engine's own step, and test/aot/parallel/local-containers/map-and-set-iterators-printed-without-running-them.js prints the iterators in such an executable. The copy of the four fields has a static_assert on the number of internal fields, so a fifth field fails the build.

The table of built-ins

Bun's own modules are compiled for --aot executables, so jsFunctionPreviewEntries has an entry in the table that the compiler reads (src/codegen/builtins/host/native-functions.builtins.ts). Without a declaration the compiler takes a native function for code that can call, keep and change what it gets. The entry says what this one does. For a Map or Set iterator it runs no program code, changes no operand and answers a new [array, boolean, number]. For anything else it throws. It belongs to the feature NodeUtil, like jsFunctionGetOwnNonIndexProperties. test/aot/builtins/differential.test.ts calls the function on a release build and compares what it sees with the entry: the 5 rows pass, and three wrong entries that I tried each fail. The 19 compile-trim-* test files pass on a trimmable release build. Console#table takes its two iterator tests from the native functions that internal/util/inspect already binds, so that change adds no entry.

test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts fails on this branch, and on main since #47087. One of its cases depends on how many entries the table has: it fails at 6463 or more, main had 6461, and a new native function adds two. The comment of 2026-10-29 on this PR has the measurements. The expected output of that case is not changed here.

Measured (release builds of main e64b59d and of this branch, debug+ASAN build of this branch, node v26.3.0. Text, sizes, memory and time: trimmable release builds of main 69f4077 and of this branch at ec4b93a)

• Per print of a 3-entry iterator: next 0 calls (was 4), Symbol.iterator 0 (was 1), return 0 (was 1 when an entry throws), at the 13 sinks that the test drives. Over 65 prints main makes 260 and 65 calls and uses up 65 of 65 iterators. Controls that must iterate still do: 4 of 4.
• Text of an untouched iterator: 210 rows (10 iterator kinds, each fresh, advanced and done, as a value, nested, at depth 0 and 1, sorted on one line, as a table cell and as table data), 36,563 bytes on main. 16 rows differ: the 8 one-line prints of a Set iterator that has entries left, and the 8 table cells that hold one. Each differs by the closing space, and a table also by the border of the wider cell. Without that change 0 bytes differ.
• Values that are not such an iterator: 0 instructions differ in Tag::get_advanced, print_as, print_map_like, print_set and JSC__JSValue__forEach. One bit-test immediate changes in print_as_prelude (0xc012780 to 0xc01e780). console.table: +17 instructions per call. A printed AggregateError: +12. Another error: +0.
• Release sections: .text +6,272 bytes, .rodata +384, .bun_builtins (the JS of the built-in modules) -560. By symbol: the shared reader 4,199, the JS host function 892, the native arm 804, TablePrinter::print_table 2 x 142, the error printer 65, print_map_iterator_like 2 x -64. The rows of the table of built-ins take 1,057 bytes. One new extern symbol. One host function, for the JS arm.
• Generated rows: 1 wrapper and 1 dispatch row. Function cells: +0 at startup, +0 after require("node:util"), +1 per Worker, +3 when console.Console is first read.
• Per printed 1,000-entry entries() iterator: next host calls 0 (was 1,001), pair arrays 1,000 (was 1,000), 2 private iterator cells. A printed Map: no counter changed.
• Peak RSS growth per console.log, 3 runs each: set.values() 78 MB at 1e7 entries (was 317) and 8 MB at 1e6 (was 33). map.entries() 584 MB at 1e7 (was 431) and 64 MB at 1e6 (was 55). An iterator advanced to its last 10 of 1e7 entries: 0.0 MB on both. Time for 1e7: 0.53 s (was 1.0 s) and 3.2 s (was 3.9 s).
• The buffer is one allocation of the size that the iterator has left. With ulimit -v 8000000 and the address space nearly full, Bun.inspect of an iterator with 3 of 1e7 entries left prints, as on main. An earlier head of this branch reserved for the whole collection (153 MiB) and threw RangeError: Out of memory.
• An iterator at its end that has not reported done: the first print's bytes change in 0 of 25 rows. It stays open after a print in 25 of 25 rows (main and Node.js close it in 25). iterator->close(vm) is the one line if Node's result is wanted.
• A Set that holds k iterators over itself: 5,994 bytes at k=4 (was 731), 313,138 at k=6 (was 1,426), 26,742,666 at k=8 (was 2,638). k arrays that hold each other: 22,834 at k=6 and 1,397,414 at k=8 on both builds.
• AggregateErrors that reach each other through iterators in errors: 3,221,451 bytes at 3 members (was 910) and 201,171,875 at 5 (was 2,395). The same shape with arrays prints 3,116,475 and 194,921,875 bytes on both builds.
• BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1: 0 reports over 300 tests in 8 files.
• The --aot program: exit 0, 777 of 777 output lines equal to the plain run, also with --aot-validate and with --aot-check=ClaimsToBackEnd. test/aot/run-parallel.ts reports pass with the release build.
• Stack: the frame that does the walk is 256 bytes per nested iterator (432 before). A chain of nested iterators prints to 8,192 levels on release (4,096 before). 512 levels print on debug+ASAN.

Console#table

Given a Map or Set iterator, new Console().table prints what Node.js prints. map.entries() gets Key and Values columns (main: one Values column of [ 'a', 1 ] pairs). set.entries() gets one Values column with each member twice (main: one row per member that holds a pair). createConsoleConstructor took isMapIterator and isSetIterator from the writable node:util/types. It now makes them from native code, as internal/util/inspect does since #45291, because the native reader throws on anything but a Map or Set iterator.

Console#table(map) is unchanged. An earlier revision stopped the for-of over a Map or a Set after size steps. quick-lru 7.3.0 caps size at maxSize while its iterator also yields the older generation (size 3, 5 entries), so that bound cut rows that Node.js and bun print. The loops are Node's again. new Console().table(map) with an endless Map.prototype[Symbol.iterator] still never returns, on bun and on Node.js alike.

Same class, not fixed here

• console.table, Bun.inspect.table and the AggregateError.errors walk given a generator, array.values() or another one-shot iterable still run it to the end. console: do not hang on an iterator that never ends #42264 bounds those walks.
• expect(it).toContain, toContainEqual, toBeEmpty and toBeOneOf use an iterator up. Iterating is their contract.
• bun:test snapshots print a Map or Set iterator as {} (pretty_format.rs). This PR does not change snapshot text. Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729 moves snapshots to the formatter that this PR changes.
• Tag::get_advanced still reads inspect.custom from the iterator before the arm.
• util.inspect of a null-prototype Map with a replaced next never returns, on bun and on Node.js.
• The native console.table(map.entries()) and Bun.inspect.table(map.entries()) name the columns 0 and 1. Node.js and new Console().table name them Key and Values. Main prints the same, and this PR keeps the text of the native sinks. No issue tracks it yet.

util.inspect(weakMap, { showHidden: true }) prints no entries (#28044). That is a missing listing, not a print that runs user code, so it is not this class. jsFunctionPreviewEntries can take a WeakMap and a WeakSet arm in a follow-up.

Overlap with open PRs

• console: do not hang on an iterator that never ends #42264 edits the same four native call sites to bound them. The PR that lands second rebases: the dispatcher becomes a branch at the top of its bounded walk.
• node v26 compat, combined: CLI flags, async_hooks ids, deep-equality fidelity, console/util/dns/path fixes and 35 upstream tests #35391 wires the old JS previewEntries into Console#table and changes the same snapshot in console-table-iterators.test.ts.
• console: left-align Console#table cells to match Node #33453 changes the cell alignment of Console#table. The snapshots here use the alignment on main.
• Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729 edits src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs and src/jsc/JSValue.rs and deletes pretty_format.rs. It does not touch the iterator walk. A trial merge with this branch conflicts in ConsoleObject.rs and test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js, so the PR that lands second rebases.

Tests

A release build of main (69f4077) fails 40 of the 43 new tests. The 3 that pass are controls. The debug build of this branch passes all of them.

• test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js: 23 tests. Every iterator kind keeps its entries after Bun.inspect, a nested print, a table cell and table data. Advanced and done iterators, delete(), clear(), growth, a null prototype, a frozen iterator, another realm, [Circular] for a Map and a Set iterator with and without a depth limit, an entry that changes the collection or throws while it is formatted, an own next getter, the at-end state, a failing matcher, and a child process that counts next, Symbol.iterator and return over 13 sinks. Two of the sinks have no print: a rejected argument and a rejected encoding. The test compares the code and the message of each of their errors. A third sink prints an error that holds the iterator.
• One of them drops 39 of 40 entries from the collection while the first entry is formatted and then runs a full collection. With the buffer hidden from the collector, the debug build aborts in that test (ASSERTION FAILED: result in JSObject::realm()).
• test/js/bun/repl/repl.test.ts: the echo of a line that makes an iterator. test/js/bun/test/jest-each.test.ts: %p and $name titles.
• test/js/web/console/console-log.js with its expected text: entries() rows and an advanced iterator printed twice. The 134 existing lines are unchanged.
• test/js/bun/console/console-table.test.ts, bun-inspect-table.test.ts, test/js/bun/util/inspect-error.test.js: table data and AggregateError.errors.
• test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/internal-inspect.test.js and test/js/node/console/console-table-iterators.test.ts: the JS arm, from the first push. One more test replaces isMapIterator and isSetIterator of node:util/types with functions that answer true and expects the usual tables and no call.
• test/internal/source-lints/printer-for-each-door.test.ts: the lint.
• With one process per file, the 99 test files under test/js/bun/util, test/js/bun/console, test/js/web/console, test/js/node/util and test/js/node/console give 3,107 passes and 1 failure on the release build of this branch. The failure is error gc test #4 in error-gc-test.test.js. It fails the same way on the release build of main on this machine.

Self-review

A design review picked this shape over four others: the print arm alone (it leaves console.table(it) running the iterator), a branch in JSValue::for_each (it changes four matchers), a reader module that every printed Map and Set goes through (it changes text where no iterator is involved), and no change. It also found the stale reader. An earlier review of the first push removed the size bound.

A review of the whole PR raised 11 concerns. 10 are addressed:

• The buffer was reserved for the whole collection. It is now sized by what the iterator has left.
• Nothing tied the copy of four fields to the field count of the iterator. A static_assert does.
• No test pinned the cycle check for a Set iterator, and none ran a collection during a print. Both are tested now.
• The table entry and its feature are declared. ir-6.test.ts is red for the reason above and needs the change on main.
• The printers had a door by convention only. A lint keeps them on it.
• The description did not state the reach, the missing user reports, the history in One value formatter for console, Bun.inspect, the error printer and bun:test #44268, the overlap with Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729, or that the AggregateError.errors arm has no producer. It does now, and the REPL, test.each titles, matchers and error messages have tests.

Not done: WeakMap and WeakSet entries for #28044. That is a different change, and the reader is ready for it.

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no test proof · iteration 1 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js, test/js/bun/repl/repl.test.ts

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

Native helpers expose remaining Map and Set iterator entries without advancing the original iterators. util.inspect, console tables, iterator formatters, and AggregateError printing use these helpers. Tests cover output, iterator state, collection mutations, and overridden methods.

Changes

Iterator previewing and rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Native iterator preview and traversal src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.*, src/codegen/builtins/host/*, test/aot/built-ins-alone/fresh-results-calls.ts	The native binding returns bounded remaining entries, their kind, and the total count. A traversal helper snapshots remaining entries before callbacks.
util.inspect formatting src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts, test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js, test/js/node/util/node-inspect-tests/*	util.inspect uses native previews to format Map and Set iterators and report omitted entries. Tests cover iterator state, mutations, cross-realm iterators, limits, and overridden methods.
Console tables and related traversal src/js/builtins/ConsoleObject.ts, src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs, src/jsc/JSValue.rs, src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, test/aot/parallel/local-containers/*, test/js/bun/console/*, test/js/bun/util/inspect-error.test.js, test/js/node/console/*, test/js/web/console/*, test/js/bun/repl/repl.test.ts, test/js/bun/test/jest-each.test.ts, test/internal/source-lints/printer-for-each-door.test.ts	Console tables and iterator formatters read remaining Map and Set entries without running the original iterators. Map entries render as key/value data. AggregateError printing uses the shared listed-entry traversal. Tests check output and iterator preservation.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#38278: Both change error printing; this PR uses listed-entry traversal for AggregateError.errors.
• oven-sh/bun#45291: Both involve native checks and previewing of Map and Set iterators.

Suggested reviewers: dylan-conway

Priority: Normal

Merge Risk: Low · up to ec4b9

The change has several narrow test-coverage gaps, but no demonstrated production failure remains in the supplied evidence. It is mergeable with owner awareness and follow-up on the assertions.

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[robobun]

Status

Reproduced on bun 1.4.3 and on main (e64b59d, and again at 69f4077). Node.js v26.3.0 is the reference.

The native formatter uses up the iterator it prints:

const it = new Map([[1, 2], [3, 4]]).entries();
console.log(it);
console.log(JSON.stringify(it.next()));

• bun 1.4.3 and main: {"done":true}
• node and this branch: {"value":[1,2],"done":false}

util.inspect runs a replaced next without a bound. The guard ends the process so that it does not hang:

const util = require("node:util");
const m = new Map([["a", 1]]);
let nexts = 0;
Object.getPrototypeOf(m.entries()).next = () => {
  if (++nexts > 5000) { console.log("RUNAWAY nexts=" + nexts); process.exit(2); }
  return { value: ["k", "v"], done: false };
};
console.log(util.inspect(m.entries()));
console.log("nexts=" + nexts);

• bun 1.4.3 and main: RUNAWAY nexts=5001
• node and this branch: [Map Entries] { [ 'a', 1 ] }, then nexts=0

Tests: a release build of main (69f4077) fails 40 of the 43 new tests in 9 files (3 are controls). The debug build of this branch passes all of them.

CI: three tests are red on Buildkite 135523 (head 8548f2c). None of them comes from this diff.

• test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts fails on every retry, as on builds 135421, 135434 and 135450 of earlier heads. Main fails it too since fs: add windowsHandle option to file streams #47087: it fails on every tree whose table of built-ins has 6463 or more entries. This comment has the measurements.
• test/aot/workers-within-address-space-limit.test.ts crashed once: panic: Segmentation fault at address 0xBBADBEEF when a compiled program that starts Workers exits. Builds 135356, 135380 and 135447 of three other PRs have the same crash in the same test. The runner does not retry a crash.
• test/internal/trim/link-coff-freestanding.test.ts timed out after 60 s in all four attempts on Alpine x64 (removes a feature and cuts its pages out of the PE file). Build 135547 of another PR has the same timeout on the same lane. The test links a generated program with lld-link. This PR changes no file that it reads.

Every other failure passed on a retry. The four macOS x64 test jobs expired before an agent took them. The macOS aarch64 jobs passed.

PR: #42359

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it adds a new native path that walks JSC's ordered-hash-table storage directly (Helper::transitAndNext, tryGetStorage, sentinel handling), a human familiar with those JSC internals should also take a look.

What was reviewed:

• jsFunctionPreviewEntries: throw-scope discipline, MarkedArgumentBuffer + hasOverflowed() OOM, RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION/RELEASE_AND_RETURN placement, dynamicDowncast, and NaN/±Infinity/negative handling on the limit — all correct.
• previewRemainingEntries: no allocation or user-JS entry during the walk, so no GC hazard between reading next.key/next.value and appending to the rooted buffer; the uncheckedDowncast is guarded by the sentinel check.
• inspect.js: maxArrayLength: null is normalized to Infinity at line 548 before formatIterator runs, so the new MathMax(ctx.maxArrayLength, 0) limit is never accidentally 0; deleted primordials are all now unused.
• Tests: runaway guard exits 2 (fails for the right reason instead of hanging), stdout asserted before exitCode, await using + concurrent drain, snapshots match Node's shape.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR replaces the JS-level previewEntries in util.inspect (which materialized an entire Map/Set via Array.from, ran user-overridable iterator protocol, and ignored iterator position) with a native C++ implementation in src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.cpp that reads the iterator's remaining entries directly from JSC's ordered-hash-table storage via Helper::transitAndNext. It wires the same helper into console.Console#table, fixes a latent isBuffer destructuring bug, bounds the for...of over real Maps/Sets by .size, and threads a separate length through formatSetIterInner/formatMapIterInner so the "... N more items" count is accurate for advanced iterators under maxArrayLength. Roughly 90 lines of new C++, ~40 lines of JS delta, and ~400 lines of new tests across two files.

Security risks

None identified. The native function is only reachable from built-in JS ($newCppFunction), takes a Map/Set iterator (validated with dynamicDowncast, else throws a TypeError), and a numeric limit that is defensively clamped (NaN/negative → 0, ≥ UINT32_MAX → UINT32_MAX, non-number → default). It calls no user code, performs no allocation inside the storage walk, and roots every collected JSValue in a MarkedArgumentBuffer with an overflow → OOM check. No untrusted parsing, no filesystem or network surface.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. The JS and test changes are straightforward and follow repo conventions closely (primordial-safe calls, $newCppFunction, dead-primordial cleanup, await using + concurrent drain, stdout-before-exitCode, runaway guard so a regression fails rather than hangs). The C++ is small and hits every REVIEW.md checkbox for JSC bindings. What lifts scrutiny above "approve" is that previewRemainingEntries depends on JSC-internal invariants: that tryGetStorage() is null only for the never-stepped case, that after ruling out orderedHashTableSentinel() the cell is safe to uncheckedDowncast to Collection::Storage, and that transitAndNext from a stale entry() correctly chains through rehash/clear tables without touching freed memory. These are the same invariants the iterator's own next() relies on and the tests exercise them (delete/clear/rehash/growth, cross-realm, exhausted iterator), but a reviewer who knows the JSC ordered-hash-table lifecycle should confirm the contract.

Other factors

The PR description documents byte-identical output against Node v26.3.0 across ~50 shapes, a pass under BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1, and an ASAN stress loop with Bun.gc(true) between inspects. The bug hunt ran to dry_streak with no findings and no ruled-out candidates. I spot-checked the maxArrayLength: null path (normalized to Infinity at inspect.js:548 before formatIterator, so the new limit argument is Infinity, not 0), the default-parameter back-compat for formatWeakSet/formatWeakMap callers, and that every deleted primordial (ArrayFrom, ArrayPrototypeFlat, MapPrototypeValues, MapPrototypeKeys, SetPrototypeEntries) is genuinely unused after the change. No CODEOWNERS entry covers these paths. The one open design point — .size is read via a user-overridable getter, and a subclass reporting size = Infinity with an infinite iterator still hangs — is called out in the PR as intentionally Node-compatible and matches formatMap in util.inspect.

[robobun]

For the reviewer who checks the JSC side: previewRemainingEntries is JSMapIterator::nextWithAdvance / JSSetIterator::nextWithAdvance (JSMapIterator.h, JSSetIterator.h) in a loop, without its three writes (setEntry, setStorage, markClosed). It relies on the same three things that function relies on.

• tryGetStorage() returns null only for an iterator that was made while the collection had no storage. nextWithAdvance then reads iteratedObject()->storage(), and the helper does the same. The late case in the test follows delete(), clear() and growth of the collection covers it.
• A closed iterator holds vm.orderedHashTableSentinel() in its storage field. The helper returns before the downcast in that case, as nextWithAdvance does.
• Helper::transitAndNext(vm, storage, entry) only reads. It follows the nextTable links that a rehash or a clear() leaves in an obsolete table, and it adjusts the index for the entries that were deleted. An obsolete table stays alive because the storage field of the iterator points at it, and each obsolete table links to the next one. The walk allocates nothing, so no GC can run between two steps.

The helper uses these through the JSC headers of the pinned WebKit build. If a WebKit upgrade changes them, UtilInspect.cpp fails to compile. It cannot fail at run time.

The failed claude-find-issues check is not related to this diff: the action ended after 685 ms with is_error: true before it did any work.

[robobun]

^{Updated 5:11 PM PT - Oct 29th, 2026}

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[robobun]

Two pushes after a self-review. The description above is rewritten to match.

204b594 removes the size bound on Console#table(map) and Console#table(set). The first revision stopped the for-of over a Map or a Set after size steps, so that a replaced Map.prototype[Symbol.iterator] could not run forever. The review checked that against quick-lru 7.3.0, the package I named as the reason to keep the iterator path. It caps size at maxSize, and its iterator also yields the older generation.

const lru = new QuickLRU({ maxSize: 3 });
for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) lru.set("k" + i, i);
lru.size;        // 3
[...lru].length; // 5
new Console(process.stdout).table(lru);
// node 26.3 and bun 1.4.2: 5 rows.  first revision of this PR: 3 rows

The two loops are Node's again, and a test pins the two-generation shape. So table(map) with an endless Map.prototype[Symbol.iterator] still never returns, on bun and on Node alike. #42264 bounds the native console.table by size with a marker row. If a bound is wanted in this JS path too, one rule has to cover both.

2c8f81e cuts the three comment blocks that comment-cop flagged to one line each.

Not taken from the review: split the isBuffer import line out and land it first through #33452. I agree that #33452 deserves to land first. A Worker uses this JS Console as its global console, so console.table([{ createdAt: new Date(0) }]) inside a node:worker_threads Worker throws on 1.4.2 and the worker exits with code 1. This PR keeps the identical line because table(map.entries()) with an object value throws without it.

[claude]

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

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

[robobun]

This push widens the PR and corrects something I wrote above. The title and the description are rewritten.

A correction. On 2026-09-11 I wrote that the reader uses JSC internals through the pinned headers, so "if a WebKit upgrade changes them, UtilInspect.cpp fails to compile. It cannot fail at run time." That was wrong. Main's WebKit has since given a Map or a Set compact storage in a process that runs AOT-compiled code. The reader was a hand copy of JSMapIterator::nextWithAdvance. It still compiled, and it cast the compact storage to the ordinary table:

$ bun build --compile --aot main.js --outfile main-aot && ./main-aot     # main.js: util.inspect(new Map([[1, 2]]).entries())
ASSERTION FAILED: !source || is<Target>(*source)
... WTF::uncheckedDowncast<JSC::JSCellButterfly, JSC::JSCell>
... Bun::previewRemainingEntries<JSC::JSMap, JSC::JSMapIterator> src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.cpp:142
exit 134

That was only on this branch, never on main. 6531d5c replaces the walk: the reader copies the four internal fields of the iterator into a private iterator and steps that one with the engine's own nextWithAdvance. No Bun code names the storage any more. A program under test/aot/parallel/local-containers/ prints the iterators in an executable built with --compile --aot (777 of 777 lines equal to the plain run).

What is new. A second report pointed at the other half of this bug: the native formatter. console.log(map.entries()), Bun.inspect, console.table and the error printer run the iterator protocol on the iterator they print, so the print uses up the caller's iterator and calls an own next. The description above listed that as "same class, not fixed here". It is fixed here now, with the same reader:

• ce44fdd: print_map_iterator_like calls a native arm over the reader (Bun__inspect__forEachRemainingEntry). Map and Set iterators join the cycle detection.
• bd3ca42: console.table data and AggregateError.errors go through the same arm when they are such an iterator.
• 2b74f8d: tests.

The merge of main is efbaf29: inspect.js is inspect.ts there, and main no longer calls isBuffer in Console#table, so that line is gone from this PR.

Where it was decided. A design review compared five places for the native fix. A branch inside JSValue::for_each would have covered every caller with no call-site edit, but it also changes expect(it).toContain, toContainEqual, toBeEmpty and toBeOneOf, whose contract is to iterate. The picked shape edits the three printer functions and leaves JSValue::for_each alone. The print arm has the shape of the iterator arm in #44268.

The numbers (calls, text bytes, instructions, binary size, memory, stack) are in the Notes of the description. Three costs are in Downsides: a higher peak for console.log(map.entries()) on very large Maps, larger output for a collection that holds several iterators over itself, and one state where Node.js closes the iterator and this does not.

[claude]

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

[robobun]

This push merges main and adds the entry that the ahead-of-time compiler needs for the new native function. It also explains the two red tests of the last build (Buildkite 135298).

test/bundler/compile-trim-capabilities.test.ts was a false alarm of the test's byte scan. Main fixed the scan in #47326, and the merge brings that fix. On a trimmable release build of this branch the file passes (3 of 3), and so do the other 18 compile-trim-* files.

test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts does not fail because of what this PR does. It fails on every tree whose table of built-ins has 6463 or more entries. Main had 6461 at 69f4077, the commit that this branch merges. A $newCppFunction adds two. Main has 6463 since #47087 (73a2043), and it now fails the same case: I built testaot from main at 9fe1cd6 and ran it.

The failing case is test/aot/engine-tests/pipeline/gc/custom-accessor-reached-computed-key.ir:220. The proven type of process.env[key] gains one member, builtin(FunctionPrototype). No other line of the output changes. I built testaot with several tables:

Table	Entries	Result
main at 69f4077, one test-only binding removed	6459	passes
main at 69f4077	6461	passes
this PR, one test-only binding removed	6461	passes
main and an empty namespace	6462	passes
this PR	6463	fails
main and a namespace with two number properties	6464	fails
main and a namespace with three number properties	6465	fails
main at 9fe1cd6, nothing added	6463	fails

• The table of main with more overloads (6913, 6461 entries) passes. So does main with one more name.
• What the table says about the new function does not matter. The case fails the same way with no declaration, with the declaration in this push, and with other result types that I tried.
• Buildkite 135174, 135175, 135290 and 135329 are builds of four other branches. Each changes or adds a .bind.ts file, and each fails this line in the same way. 135329 is the build of fs: add windowsHandle option to file streams #47087.

To see it on a tree that still has 6461 entries, add this line to any file in src/codegen/builtins/host/:

b.namespace("%X%", { a: b.property(b.f64), b: b.property(b.f64) }, { scope: "Module", listsAllMembers: true }),

bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --target=testaot
cd test/aot/engine-tests && ../../../build/debug/testaot run pipeline/gc/custom-accessor-reached-computed-key.ir

I did not change the expected output of that case in this PR. The extra member is a less exact answer, and the cause is in the engine or in the case, not here.

The new table entry. Bun's own modules are compiled for --aot executables, so a native function that they make with $newCppFunction has an entry in the table of built-ins. Without a declaration the compiler takes the function for code that can call, keep and change what it gets. native-functions.builtins.ts now says what jsFunctionPreviewEntries does. For a Map or Set iterator it runs no program code, changes no operand and answers a new [array, boolean, number]. For anything else it throws a TypeError. test/aot/builtins/differential.test.ts calls the function on a release build and compares what it sees with the entry: the 5 rows pass. Three wrong entries that I tried (another result type, no values kept in the result, no throw) each fail.

[claude]

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

[claude]

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

[claude]

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

[claude]

The last push folds the second spawn block into run(script, before) as asked, and this pass found no bugs; since the reader builds a private JSMapIterator/JSSetIterator from copied internal fields and the AOT builtins table now models it, a maintainer familiar with the JSC bindings and the --aot tables should still take a look.

What was reviewed this time:

• remainingEntries / jsFunctionPreviewEntries: the limit is compared as a double (NaN, negatives, Infinity handled) and cast last; entries land in a MarkedArgumentBuffer with an overflow check; RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION follows constructArray, constructArrayPair and each Rust callback.
• Bun__inspect__forEachRemainingEntry collects every entry before the first callback, so an inspect.custom that mutates the collection cannot move the copy; the one-line SetIterator space change and Tag::MapIterator/SetIterator joining can_have_circular_references have matching tests.
• console.table for set.entries() yields the flat [k, k, ...] rows that Node's previewEntries path also produces, so the table shape matches Node rather than regressing.

Extended reasoning...

The diff (19 files, +1179/-83) adds a C++ reader in src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.cpp that copies a Map/Set iterator's internal fields into a private iterator and steps it with nextWithAdvance, rewires the Rust formatter, TablePrinter and the AggregateError printer in src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs and src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs through it, replaces the JS previewEntries in src/js/internal/util/inspect.ts and src/js/builtins/ConsoleObject.ts, and registers the host function in the AOT builtins tables. No auth, crypto, or injection surface is touched; the hostile-input surface is user-supplied iterators and the limit number, both validated. Approval was not chosen because the change is large and reaches into JSC iterator internals and the AOT purity tables, which cannot be built or run here; the only commit since the last review addressed the prior nit and no third-party objection is outstanding.

[robobun]

A review of the whole PR raised 11 concerns. This push (304b381, 15d410f, ec4b93a) addresses 10 of them, and the description is rewritten.

Code

• The reader reserved its buffer for the whole collection. For an iterator with 3 of 1e7 entries left that is 153 MiB. With ulimit -v 8000000 and the address space nearly full, Bun.inspect of that iterator threw RangeError: Out of memory on this branch, and main printed it. remainingEntries now walks one private copy to count what is left, reserves that, and fills the buffer from a second copy. The case prints again. Peak memory and time of a fresh iterator did not change: 584 MB and 3.2 s for map.entries() at 1e7 entries.
• copyOf has a static_assert on the number of internal fields of the iterator, so a fifth field fails the build.
• test/internal/source-lints/printer-for-each-door.test.ts allows JSValue::for_each in ConsoleObject.rs and VirtualMachine.rs only inside for_each_listed and the two walks of a Map or a Set itself. On main's two files it names the three call sites that this PR changes.

Tests

• A Set iterator that its own Set holds prints [Circular], also with depth: Infinity. Before, a build without the Set clause of the cycle check passed every test.
• One test drops 39 of 40 entries from the collection while the first entry is formatted, and then runs a full collection. With the buffer hidden from the collector, the debug build aborts in that test.
• The REPL echo, test.each titles with %p and $name, four failing matchers, two rejected arguments and an error that holds the iterator. Main fails each of them.

Not done

• WeakMap and WeakSet entries for node:util does not implement WeakSet correctly #28044. That is a missing listing and a different change. jsFunctionPreviewEntries can take the two arms in a follow-up.
• The native console.table(map.entries()) still names its columns 0 and 1, as the resolved thread above says. No issue tracks it.
• test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts stays red until its case on main no longer depends on the size of the table of built-ins.

@dylan-conway, two questions, because #44268 also read a printed iterator from its collection and #46729 edits the same file.

1. Do you want this as a PR of its own, or inside your formatter work?
2. As a PR of its own, does it land before or after Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729? A trial merge of the two conflicts in src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs and test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js. Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729 moves snapshots to this formatter. I did not build the two together, so I do not know what a snapshot of a Map or Set iterator prints then.

[coderabbitai]

Actionable comments posted: 3

Nitpick comments: 3

test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js: 2

1681-1682: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add a post-print position check to the circular entries() test.

The pairs.entries() case checks only the printed text. Add an assertion that the iterator still yields its first entry. This matches the values and members cases in the same test, which call next() after printing. The unlimited-depth test has the same gap.

Suggested assertion

     expect(Bun.inspect(entries, { compact: true })).toBe("SetIterator { [ [Circular], [Circular] ] }");
+    expect(entries.next().value[0]).toBe(entries);
   });

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Review comment at @test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js around lines 1681 - 1682:
In the circular entries() tests, including the unlimited-depth case, add a
post-print assertion that the iterator still yields its first entry and that the
entry refers back to the iterator. Keep the existing Bun.inspect output
assertions unchanged.

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1870-1877: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert the expected error in the two native-error sinks.

The openSync and setDefaultEncoding sinks wrap the call in try {} catch {} and never check that an error occurred. The test therefore passes even if those calls never reach the error formatter, which is the path the sink comments say they exercise. Assert the error code and check that the message contains the iterator preview. For setDefaultEncoding, ERR_UNKNOWN_ENCODING is the expected code. Confirm the openSync error code before adding its assertion.

As per path instructions, "Every assertion must be able to fail … Hunt vacuous patterns: … expects inside catch blocks or callbacks that may never fire." These sinks are the vacuous pattern.

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Review comment at @test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js around lines 1870 - 1877:
Update the “a rejected encoding” test sinks so both the openSync and
setDefaultEncoding callbacks assert that the call throws and validate the error
code and message contains the iterator preview; use ERR_UNKNOWN_ENCODING for
setDefaultEncoding and confirm the expected openSync error code before asserting
it.

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test/js/bun/test/jest-each.test.ts: 1

53-57: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Poor tradeoff

Assert the rendered titles for the iterator cases.

The two new iterator cases check only the preserved entries in their bodies. If %p or $held stops rendering the iterator, the title changes and the tests still pass. Add a check that reads the generated test names, for example through reporter output.

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Review comment at @test/js/bun/test/jest-each.test.ts around lines 53 - 57:
Update the two iterator cases in the `it.each` tests to assert their generated
test titles, using reporter output or another existing test-name inspection
mechanism; verify both the `%p` and `$held` titles render the iterator as
expected while preserving the existing entry assertions.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @test/internal/source-lints/printer-for-each-door.test.ts:
- Line 28: Update the jsValueForEach lint pattern so it identifies
JSValue::for_each calls by their receiver or global, ctx, callback argument
shape rather than assuming non-closure arguments belong to JSValue; ensure
named-function Iterator::for_each calls such as
items.iter().for_each(record_item) do not match, while closure-based JSValue
calls remain covered by the test “a printer walks a value through
formatter::for_each_listed.”

Review comments at @test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js:
- Line 1792: Update the matcher assertion in the iterator test to verify the
expected assertion-failure message or error, rather than accepting any thrown
value. Ensure a missing or broken expect matcher cannot pass by throwing a
TypeError.
- Around line 1740-1744: Update the sink test loop to record each entry index
when its inspector is called, rather than storing only seen.length. Assert that
every sink/drop combination produces the full ordered sequence from 0 through
count minus one.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @test/js/bun/test/jest-each.test.ts:
- Around line 53-57: Update the two iterator cases in the `it.each` tests to
assert their generated test titles, using reporter output or another existing
test-name inspection mechanism; verify both the `%p` and `$held` titles render
the iterator as expected while preserving the existing entry assertions.

Review comments at @test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js:
- Around line 1681-1682: In the circular entries() tests, including the
unlimited-depth case, add a post-print assertion that the iterator still yields
its first entry and that the entry refers back to the iterator. Keep the
existing Bun.inspect output assertions unchanged.
- Around line 1870-1877: Update the “a rejected encoding” test sinks so both the
openSync and setDefaultEncoding callbacks assert that the call throws and
validate the error code and message contains the iterator preview; use
ERR_UNKNOWN_ENCODING for setDefaultEncoding and confirm the expected openSync
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[claude]

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

Beyond the inline nit, I also checked the two-walk remainingEntries rewrite in src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.cpp pushed since the last review: both private iterator copies are stack-held, the collected values go into a MarkedArgumentBuffer, the Entries-kind capacity is widened to size_t before doubling and hasOverflowed is checked before the second walk, and forEachRemainingEntry still copies everything before the first callback — so the reserve change does not introduce a rooting or size-arithmetic issue.

Extended reasoning...

The commits since the last review replace the whole-collection reservation with a count-then-copy walk over two private copies of the iterator in UtilInspect.cpp, add a source lint test that printers route through formatter::for_each_listed, and add tests for more native formatting sites. The C++ change touches JSC internal-field copying and GC-held buffers, which I read for rooting and overflow and found consistent with the rest of the file; the one surviving finding is a test-strength nit. The change remains a cross-cutting native formatter rewrite (C++, Rust, JS builtins, AOT builtins table), so it is not a candidate for automated approval.

[robobun]

Answers to the three comments of the last review that have no thread. The changes are in 8548f2c.

• The circular cases (inspect.test.js): added. pairs.entries() and both iterators of the case without a depth limit are asked for next() after the print.
• The openSync and setDefaultEncoding sinks (inspect.test.js): the fixture records the code and the message of each error, or no error. The test compares all ten with the exact text. openSync("/", iterator) throws ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE with The argument 'flags' is invalid. Received MapIterator { 1, 3, 5 }.
• The titles (jest-each.test.ts): not changed. A title has the same text on main and on this branch. What differs is whether the body still finds the entries, and main fails all three generated tests on that. A check of the title needs a child bun test run, and it would pin how a title shows a value over several lines, which this PR does not change. inspect.test.js asserts the text of the formatter.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.