console: print String.prototype as {} and Object.create(String.prototype) as String {} by robobun · Pull Request #47575 · oven-sh/bun

robobun · 2026-10-31T20:46:34Z

Fixes #8627

Problem

console.log(String.prototype) prints an empty line, Number.prototype prints [Number: 0], Boolean.prototype prints [Boolean: false]. Node prints {}.
console.log(Object.create(String.prototype)) prints String { length: 0, anchor: [Function: anchor], ... }, 52 members. Node prints String {}.
Tag::get_advanced (src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs:2206) picks the printer from the cell type. JSC__JSValue__forEachPropertyImpl (src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp:5753) stops its prototype walk only at Object.prototype and Function.prototype.

Fix

Commit 1: Tag::get_advanced sends the three prototypes to the object printer, found by isStringNumberOrBooleanPrototype (UtilInspect.h).
Commit 2: the walk does not climb into a boxed String, Number or Boolean.
Verified: test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js (8 new tests, 7 fail before), 106 neighbor files, test/aot.
Self-reviewed: 11 concerns raised, 9 addressed. Not done: a separate PR for commit 2, sorting under { sorted: true }.

Background

JSC makes these prototypes boxed values. String.prototype has its own cell type (JSType). For the other two the class (ClassInfo) decides.
JSC creates built-in methods lazily. Object.entries() turns them into ordinary properties, which the quick walk lists.
Weighed: an own-properties walk (console: don't list prototype members as own properties #36595), a class table, console: print built-in prototypes as {} instead of boxed value / method dump #36660's identity list. Each changes correct output or costs more.

Downsides

A printed object costs 0 to 8 more instructions ({a:1,b:"x"}: 5349 to 5350), no allocation. .text: +768 B.
24 of 29 built-in classes still list their prototype's methods (console.log displays prototype object keys as plain keys #1713).
A boxed value in expect.objectContaining() prints without its prototype's methods. A macro that returns one of the three prototypes inlines {}, also after macros: inline a returned Number or Boolean object as its primitive value #47569 (see Notes).

Notes

Reference. Node v26.3.0 prints {}, {} {}, String {} and {} 1 for the first four rows added to console-log.js. A fifth row pins [String: "abc"] for an instance of a String subclass. Main prints the same text, and Node adds the class name: [String (S): 'abc']. The issue asks for four distinct outputs of "", new String(""), String.prototype and Object.create(String.prototype): console.log now prints an empty line, [String: ""], {} and String {}. Its other requests (for example String.prototype.length !== 0) are behaviour that the specification fixes. Nobody has ruled in the issue on {} for Number.prototype and Boolean.prototype. They get the form of String.prototype, which is also what Node prints.

The two commits.

Commit 1 alone gives the four distinct outputs. Object.create(String.prototype) then still prints its 52 members. Commit 1 passes its own tests without commit 2.
Commit 2 is a slice of console.log displays prototype object keys as plain keys #1713 for three classes: the walk stops at a cell of type StringObject, DerivedStringObject, NumberObject or BooleanObject. A general rule for the walk (own members only, or no members that are not enumerable) would make these three tests unnecessary. The self-review of this branch asked for that rule in a PR of its own. I kept commit 2 because the issue names this output.

Measurements. Release builds of 34cbc70 (main), of commit 1 and of this PR on that base, same toolchain. The branch was rebased on a47a315 after that, and the ASAN files below ran again there.

Instructions for one object print (Formatter::print_object, entry to return, JIT off, ptrace single-step, third call, 5 runs), main -> commit 1 -> PR: {a:1,b:"x"} 5349 -> 5350 -> 5350, {} 1469 -> 1471 -> 1474, object with a getter 5730 -> 5732 -> 5730, 2-level class instance 11312 -> 11316 -> 11320. The first three are identical in 5 of 5 runs. The class instance takes 2 or 3 values on each build, and so does a Dirent (main 38129 to 38181, PR 38135 to 38187).
Instructions per walk (JSC__JSValue__forEachProperty), main -> PR: {a:1,b:"x"} 5086 -> 5087, {} 354 -> 359, 2-level class instance 11049 -> 11057. Tag::get_advanced for an int 33 -> 33, for a string 89 -> 89, for a plain object 1175 -> 1175, for new Number(1) 1292 -> 1310.
Object.create(String.prototype): about 217000 -> 562 instructions per walk. Function cells created by the first print: 15 -> 2 (bun:jsc heapStats). objectCount delta of the first Bun.inspect({}): 345 -> 345.
Calls of the exported predicate per print (breakpoint hit count, ASAN release build, where it is not inlined): number, string, plain object, array 0. Class instance 1, for its name. new Number(1) and new Boolean(true) 1. new String("a") 0. One of the three prototypes 2.
Stack frame bytes, ASAN release build, main -> PR: forEachPropertyImpl<false> 3232 -> 3232, print_object 512 -> 512, Tag::get_advanced 192 -> 192, get_object_name 256 -> 256.
JSC__JSValue__forEachPropertyOrdered is not edited. Release build: 0 differing instructions of 1709. ASAN release build: 7 of 4653, each the __LINE__ constant of an exception-scope macro (the function moved down 22 lines).
Release .text: 108082281 -> 108083049 B (llvm-size). bloaty is not installed in this environment. Symbol sizes from nm: JSC__JSValue__forEachProperty +236 B, print_object +95 B twice, Tag::get_advanced +80 B, get_object_name +67 B, JSC__JSValue__forEachPropertyNonIndexed -64 B, new Bun__isStringNumberOrBooleanPrototype 104 B. The binary size report of CI for 095a203 against main 4f7acde (the same base): +0.0 KB on 9 of 12 targets, +1.0 KB on windows-x64, +1.5 KB on windows-aarch64, +4.0 KB on freebsd-x64.
Output corpus (29 built-in prototypes printed directly and through Object.create, in this realm and a node:vm realm, plus boxed values, class instances and host objects): 23 of 246 rows change. Each is a row for one of the three prototypes, an object that inherits from one or from a boxed value, or the prototype of a subclass. 196 test lines are added in existing files and 0 are removed or edited.
A macro that returns String.prototype, Number.prototype, Boolean.prototype inlines "", NaN, true on main and {}, {}, {} here. "Macros, with macros: inline a returned Number or Boolean object as its primitive value #47569" below has the result with both PRs.

Other values that change. Three routes give a real boxed value to the object printer: expect.objectContaining(v), and the toJSON result of a Headers or a FormData. Bun.inspect(expect.objectContaining(new Number(1))) printed ObjectContaining Number { toLocaleString: [Function: toLocaleString], ... } and now prints ObjectContaining Number {}. The class name stays. Commit 1 alone does not change these rows.

Macros, with #47569. #47569 makes a macro inline a Number or Boolean object as its primitive value. Run::run (src/js_parser_jsc/Macro.rs) calls the classifier that this PR changes. So the two PRs give different results for Number.prototype and Boolean.prototype. When both PRs have landed, the intended result is {} for each of the three prototypes. The order of the two merges does not matter: their src/ diffs touch different files. Tag::get_advanced files a prototype under Object. The unwrap of #47569 runs only for a cell under Double or Boolean, so it does not see a prototype. The macro test of this PR pins [{}, {}, {}], and it passes with #47569 in the tree.

A macro returns	main `4f7acde`	#47569	this PR	both
`String.prototype`	`""`	`""`	`{}`	`{}`
`Number.prototype`	`NaN`	`0`	`{}`	`{}`
`Boolean.prototype`	`true`	`false`	`{}`	`{}`
`new Number(5)`	`NaN`	`5`	`NaN`	`5`
`new Boolean(false)`	`true`	`false`	`true`	`false`

The columns are debug builds of main 4f7acde: alone, with the src/ diff of macros: inline a returned Number or Boolean object as its primitive value #47569 (bdcd4a2), with that of this PR (20f194e), and with both. The values are the output of bun build --no-bundle.
JSON.stringify gives "", 0 and false for the three prototypes. With both PRs the macro walk does not follow it for them: it inlines what the classifier says, as it does for every value. To follow JSON.stringify here, Run::run needs its own test of the cell type, apart from the classifier.
A key that a program adds to a prototype is inlined: Number.prototype.added = 1 gives { added: 1 } on the build with both.
Both PRs append to test/bundler/transpiler/macro.ts. The second one to merge has a text conflict there: keep both sides. macro-test.test.ts then passes, 38 of 38, on the tree with both.

The snapshot printer. bun test prints snapshots and expect() diffs with pretty_format.rs, which this PR does not edit. toMatchSnapshot() of the three prototypes gives String {}, Number { "toExponential": ..., } and Boolean { "toString": ..., "valueOf": ..., } on main and here. A new test in snapshot.test.ts pins that text, and the text of boxed values that have keys. #46729 makes snapshots use the console.log formatter. Whichever of the two PRs merges second must keep that text (gate the new arm off for snapshots) or change it on purpose. The pins make that visible.

ASAN lane. #36660, an earlier attempt at this issue, failed test/js/bun/test/pretty-format-overflow.test.ts on the x64-asan lane after it edited JSC__JSValue__forEachPropertyOrdered, which the expect() printer calls for each nesting level. This PR does not edit that function. On a local ASAN release build with the environment of the lane (BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1, detect_leaks=1, abort_on_error=1): pretty-format-overflow.test.ts 3 of 3 pass (main 3 of 3), inspect.test.js 3 of 3 pass (main 3 of 3), and vm.test.ts, console-log.test.ts, macro-test.test.ts, expect.test.js and snapshot.test.ts pass. The local run does not prove the lane: it also passed with the hunk of #36660 applied to this tree. main does not run the x64-asan lane, so the CI run of this PR is the check. The x64-asan lane passed at 20f194e and at 095a203 (20 of 20 shards each). pretty-format-overflow.test.ts and inspect.test.js ran there.

Tests.

On a release build of main, 7 of the 8 new tests in inspect.test.js fail, and so do the fixture test and the macro test. The test that passes before is the one that says boxed values still print as boxed values.
Each edit of the walk has a test that fails without it. I removed them one at a time on a debug build: the forced slow walk, the refusal at the first hop, the refusal after the quick walk, and the stop after the first level each break one line of the two subprocess tests. The second of those tests asserts hasNonReifiedStatic() so that it cannot pass by accident.
106 test files (test/js/bun/util, test/js/web/console, test/js/bun/console, test/js/node/util, test/js/node/assert, expect.test.js, pretty-format-overflow.test.ts, vm.test.ts, macro-test.test.ts, snapshot.test.ts), one process per file, on release builds of main and of the PR: the results differ only for the three files that have new tests. test/aot (522 files): no test fails here that does not fail on main when its file runs alone.

Not changed, for later.

Object.create(Date.prototype), Date.prototype and the other built-in classes still list inherited methods (console.log displays prototype object keys as plain keys #1713). fix(console): console.log respects enumerable:false #38218 and Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729 change the rule for members.
"" and new String("") print the same in nested positions and in Bun.inspect(). console: print nested String wrapper objects as [String: ...] #38171 and console: format boxed primitives and RegExp from their internal slot #36404 are open for that.
console.log(Function.prototype) prints [Circular] (console, bun:test: print a native function that is not a constructor as a function #44214 is open for it). Array.prototype prints [].
The prototype of a subclass prints under its own name: (class S extends String {}).prototype prints S {}, Node prints String {}.
An inspect.custom function still runs for a prototype object (console: do not call inspect.custom on a prototype object #41281).
Bun.inspect(Number.prototype, { sorted: true }) prints {}, but it does not sort properties that a program added to the prototype, because it takes the other walk. A test pins { b: 1, a: 2 }. The walk that sorts is also the walk of the snapshot printer, so a change of what it lists changes snapshot text.
An object of another realm still lists the members of that realm's Object.prototype (inspect: stop at a foreign realm's Object.prototype; print [Getter] for array index accessors #34886 was an attempt).
The dev-server echo of the browser console (src/runtime/bake/client/inspect.ts) is a separate formatter and is not edited.
A macro that returns new Number(5) inlines NaN, on main and here. macros: inline a returned Number or Boolean object as its primitive value #47569 makes it 5.

Overlap with open PRs. #47569: see "Macros, with #47569". #46729: see "The snapshot printer". #43193 prints an empty object past the depth as {}. The depth row of the new test uses a literal so that both orders of merge stay green. #38218, #39054, #39045, #38937 and #37331 edit the same walk. #41281 edits Tag::get_advanced. #36404 and #38171 edit print_string, print_double and print_boolean, which this PR does not touch. They change what Bun.inspect() returns for a boxed String, and one new assertion pins today's "abc": the second to merge updates that line.

Earlier attempts. #36660 tagged the three prototypes as objects in Tag::get and stopped the walk at boxed cell types. This PR keeps both ideas. Its identity list of 16 global prototypes is not used: it started lazy classes, saw only the realm that prints, and missed reified prototypes. #36595 and #26094 listed own properties only. #36660, #36595 and #26094 were ended by the stale sweep with no maintainer comment.

no test proof · iteration 2 · 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/test/snapshot-tests/snapshots/snapshot.test.ts

…pe as {} In JSC these three prototypes are boxed values of "", 0 and false. Tag::get_advanced picks the printer from the cell type, so console.log and Bun.inspect printed them as an empty line, [Number: 0] and [Boolean: false]. Tag::get_advanced now sends them to the object printer. One predicate finds them: String.prototype by its cell type, which no other cell has, and the other two by their class. The object printer gives them no class name, and the property walk lists only what a program put on them. Fixes #8627

…its methods The prototype walk of forEachPropertyImpl climbs up to 5 levels and stops only at Object.prototype and Function.prototype. So Object.create(String.prototype) printed the 52 members of String.prototype, and the same for Number.prototype and Boolean.prototype. The walk now does not climb into a boxed String, Number or Boolean, which these three prototypes are. The other built-in prototypes are not changed (#1713).

robobun · 2026-10-31T20:46:49Z

^{Updated 5:07 PM PT - Oct 31st, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 095a203 has 1 failures in Build #136213 (All Failures):

test/aot/build-scaling/build-scaling-6.test.ts - code 1 on 🍎 any x64

🧪 To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 47575

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-47575 executable, so you can run:

bun-47575 --bun

robobun · 2026-10-31T20:46:51Z

Status: ready for review. CI has one red test, and this diff does not touch what it measures.

CI at 095a203 (build 136213): 187 of 188 jobs passed.

The failed job is one darwin x64 test shard. Its only red test is test/aot/build-scaling/build-scaling-6.test.ts: "twice as many classes cost 3.36 times the instructions; allowed: 3.36". Four attempts measured 3.36, 3.37, 3.37 and 3.36.
That test measures the AOT compiler, which this PR does not change. The same message is in the builds of main at 4f7acde (136192, the base of this branch) and at a47a315 (136170), on darwin 14 x64. There the test passed on a retry.
The x64-asan lane passed (20 of 20 shards). pretty-format-overflow.test.ts and inspect.test.js ran there.

Reproduced on the release build 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9 and on a release build of main:

bun -e 'console.log(String.prototype); console.log(Object.create(String.prototype))'

Before: an empty line, then String { length: 0, anchor: [Function: anchor], ... } with 52 members. With this PR: {}, then String {}.

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The change identifies String, Number, and Boolean prototypes during property enumeration and inspection. It changes prototype traversal and console formatting, with tests for prototypes, boxed values, subclasses, inherited objects, and cross-realm inspection.

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Primitive Prototype Inspection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Primitive prototype identification `src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.h`, `src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.cpp`, `src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp`, `src/jsc/JSType.rs`	New checks identify String, Number, and Boolean prototypes. A C-linkage function exposes the check, and a comment distinguishes `String.prototype` from string subclass instances.
Prototype enumeration `src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp`	Enumeration skips boxed values in quick walks, limits prototype traversal at these prototypes, and requests enumerable properties for them.
Inspection formatting and regression coverage `src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs`, `test/bundler/transpiler/.ts`, `test/js/bun/test/snapshot-tests/snapshots/snapshot.test.ts`, `test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js`, `test/js/web/console/console-log.`	Console inspection changes prototype tagging, class-name prefixes, and ordered property handling. Tests cover prototype and boxed-value output, subclasses, inherited objects, cross-realm inspection, and console formatting.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, dylan-conway

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 095a2

The assertions distinguish boxed strings from prototypes, while console.log coverage checks boxed formatting separately. No actionable merge blocker remains; merge after normal checks pass.

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Title check		The title clearly describes the primary console formatting change for String.prototype and Object.create(String.prototype). It omits the related Number.prototype and Boolean.prototype cases, but it re…
Linked Issues check		For [`#8627`], the current head routes String.prototype, Number.prototype, and Boolean.prototype through object inspection. It stops prototype traversal at the corresponding boxed cells. The added conso…
Out of Scope Changes check		The source changes remain connected to [`#8627`]. The shared String, Number, and Boolean prototype handling fixes the same boxed-prototype inspection path. The macro, console, inspection, and snapshot t…
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For [#8627], the current head routes String.prototype, Number.prototype, and Boolean.prototype through object inspection. It stops prototype traversal at the corresponding boxed cells. The added console and inspection tests cover distinct output for empty strings, boxed strings, String.prototype, and Object.create(String.prototype), including String {}. The issue qualifies its length, coercion, and normalize requests by specification requirements. The PR addresses the formatter requirements and does not leave a concrete unmet coding requirement from those qualified requests.

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Check the [String prefix in the boxed String cases.

1577-1578: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Check the [String prefix in the boxed String cases.

Lines 1577-1578 also pass when Bun.inspect returns the primitive text abc, because that text contains abc. The Number and Boolean assertions in the same test already check the boxed form. A toStartWith("[String") check gives the String cases the same boxed-form coverage.
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     expect(Bun.inspect(new S("abc"))).toContain("abc");
+    expect(Bun.inspect(new S("abc"))).toStartWith("[String");
     expect(Bun.inspect(new String("abc"))).toContain("abc");
+    expect(Bun.inspect(new String("abc"))).toStartWith("[String");
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Update the boxed String assertions in the test to verify that `Bun.inspect`
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robobun · 2026-10-31T21:03:28Z

About the CodeRabbit note on test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js:1577-1578: I did not apply it.

Bun.inspect(new String("abc")) and Bun.inspect(new S("abc")) return "abc" (with the quotes) on main and on this branch, so toStartWith("[String") fails on both. Only a top-level console.log(new String("abc")) prints [String: "abc"], and test/js/web/console/console-log.js:17 already pins that form. #38171 and #36404 are open for the boxed form inside Bun.inspect().

The two assertions show that a boxed String does not print as {}. toContain("abc") holds before and after those two PRs.

claude

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

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the three new walk-terminator hunks in JSC__JSValue__forEachPropertyImpl for exception-scope coverage — the new predicates are non-throwing type/classInfo checks and every getPrototype call keeps its RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION; JSC__JSValue__forEachPropertyOrdered is untouched. The exported Bun__isStringNumberOrBooleanPrototype would null-deref on an empty JSValue, but all three Rust call sites hand it a value already matched on its cell type or already passed through get_class_name, so no path reaches that.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the console/inspect formatter tag selection in src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs, a new inline predicate in src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.h exported from UtilInspect.cpp, and the property-walk prototype-hop terminators in src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp, plus tests. No security-sensitive surface is involved. Three inline findings were posted (a vacuous regression guard, sorted-mode inconsistency for the three prototypes, and macro inlining of boxed Number/Boolean), so a human look is already signalled; this note records what else was examined and ruled out.

claude · 2026-10-31T21:09:51Z


-            if ordered_properties {
+            // Only the other walk leaves out the built-in methods of `String.prototype` and its two siblings.
+            if ordered_properties && !crate::cpp::Bun__isStringNumberOrBooleanPrototype(value) {


🟡 nit (optional): callers passing { sorted: true } get insertion-ordered keys for String.prototype, Number.prototype and Boolean.prototype, while every other object is sorted. The new guard at src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs:5383 routes those three objects to the unsorted walk whenever they are the value being printed. The new test at test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js:1641 pins the unsorted b: 1, a: 2 output. Fix: keep the sorted walk for these objects and have it list own enumerable keys only, for example by passing DontEnumPropertiesMode::Exclude in JSC__JSValue__forEachPropertyOrdered when Bun::isStringNumberOrBooleanPrototype(object) holds, so sorted is honoured for every object.

Why this was flagged

A program adds enumerable keys to Number.prototype in non-alphabetical order (test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js:1627-1630 does b then a) and prints it with Bun.inspect(Number.prototype, { sorted: true }) or util.inspect(..., { sorted: true }). src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs:5383 skips for_each_property_ordered for the three prototypes and calls for_each_property instead, which emits keys in creation order. The output is { b: 1, a: 2 } where every other object prints { a: 2, b: 1 }; the test at test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js:1641 asserts exactly that unsorted text. On the base branch these values went to the number/string/boolean printers, so the option was never consulted; the diff is what makes sorted reachable and then drops it. The PR description lists sorting under { sorted: true } as not done; the ordered walk at src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp:5942 already lists own properties only, so the only change it needs is the DontEnum mode for these objects.

Verification: Acknowledged in diff: test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js:1645 pins { b: 1, a: 2 } for Bun.inspect(Number.prototype, { sorted: true }). src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs:5383 routes these three objects to the unsorted walk at :5390, so the sorted option is silently ignored for exactly them. On base these objects never listed keys at all, so this is a new, narrow inconsistency, not a regression.

I did not change this. The reasons:

JSC__JSValue__forEachPropertyOrdered is also the walk of the snapshot printer (src/runtime/test_runner/pretty_format.rs:2307). With DontEnumPropertiesMode::Exclude for the three prototypes, expect(Number.prototype).toMatchSnapshot() prints Number {} where it prints six methods today, so stored snapshots change. snapshot.test.ts pins today's text.

console: print built-in prototypes as {} instead of boxed value / method dump #36660, an earlier attempt at this issue, added a check to that function. After that, test/js/bun/test/pretty-format-overflow.test.ts failed on the x64-asan lane of that PR. This PR leaves the function as it is: 0 of its 1709 instructions differ in a release build. The x64-asan lane passed on this PR at 20f194e (20 of 20 shards).

The case is narrow. A program adds two or more enumerable properties to one of the three prototypes, and prints that prototype with Bun.inspect(value, { sorted: true }). console.log() never sorts.

To honour sorted here and keep the snapshot text, the caller has to tell the ordered walk what to list (a new parameter, which pretty_format.rs does not set). I can do that in a follow-up if a maintainer wants it. The PR body has this case under "Not changed, for later".

… String subclass

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robobun · 2026-10-31T21:35:55Z

Follow-up to the review above, at 095a203:

Boxed String assertions in inspect.test.js: applied. The two assertions compare exact text, and console-log.js has a row for an instance of a String subclass.
{ sorted: true } for the three prototypes: not changed. The walk that sorts is also the walk of the snapshot printer. The thread has the reasons.
A macro that returns new Number(5): on main too. macros: inline a returned Number or Boolean object as its primitive value #47569 is open for it.

The branch also has a merge of main.

claude

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

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the new isStringNumberOrBooleanPrototype gate in src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.h: the hasStaticPropertyTable flag plus the NumberPrototype/BooleanPrototype classInfo test keeps new Number(1), new Boolean(true) and Object.create(X.prototype) on their existing paths, and the predicate enters no JS, so the unchanged RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION placement in forEachPropertyImpl still covers every throwing call. The exact-text assertions added in e6782c2 cover the boxed-String case raised in the earlier review.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the console/inspect tag selection in src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs, the fast and slow prototype walks in src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp, and a new non-throwing C++ predicate, with tests across inspect, console-log, snapshot and macro suites; it touches no security-sensitive surface. A human look remains worthwhile because the property walk is a hot path shared by every object print and an inline nit plus an open prior thread on { sorted: true } remain.

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

claude · 2026-10-31T21:42:18Z

+  expect(String.prototype).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`String {}`);
+  expect(Number.prototype).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    Number {
+      "toExponential": [Function: toExponential],
+      "toFixed": [Function: toFixed],
+      "toLocaleString": [Function: toLocaleString],
+      "toPrecision": [Function: toPrecision],
+      "toString": [Function: toString],
+      "valueOf": [Function: valueOf],
+    }
+  `);
+  expect(Boolean.prototype).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    Boolean {
+      "toString": [Function: toString],
+      "valueOf": [Function: valueOf],
+    }
+  `);
+  expect(withKeys(new Number(1))).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    Number {
+      "a": 2,
+      "b": 1,
+      "hidden": 3,
+    }
+  `);
+  expect(withKeys(new Boolean(true))).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    Boolean {
+      "a": 2,
+      "b": 1,
+      "hidden": 3,
+    }
+  `);
+  expect(withKeys(new N(1))).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    N {
+      "a": 2,
+      "b": 1,
+      "hidden": 3,
+    }
+  `);


🟡 nit (optional): maintainers get inline snapshots that certify the snapshot printer's divergence from Jest and that pass unchanged on the base branch. The block at test/js/bun/test/snapshot-tests/snapshots/snapshot.test.ts:947-984 pins Number.prototype as Number { "toExponential": ... } and withKeys(new Number(1)) with the non-enumerable "hidden": 3, while the same PR makes console.log print {} for the prototype; Jest prints Number {} for both. Nothing here runs code this PR changes, so the test cannot fail under USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1. Fix: either drop the block or pin only the behaviour the PR changes, and leave the snapshot printer's own-key listing for the PR that fixes it rather than snapshotting it as correct.

Why this was flagged

A later change makes the snapshot printer in src/runtime/test_runner/pretty_format.rs:2307 list only own enumerable keys, matching Jest's pretty-format and the console output this PR introduces. The inline snapshots at test/js/bun/test/snapshot-tests/snapshots/snapshot.test.ts:948-957 and :964-984 then fail, because they pin the built-in DontEnum methods of Number.prototype and the non-enumerable hidden key that JSC__JSValue__forEachPropertyOrdered collects with DontEnumPropertiesMode::Include at src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp:5942. The snapshot printer's Tag::get at src/runtime/test_runner/pretty_format.rs:494-499 and its walk are not edited by this diff, so every assertion in this block already passes on the base branch; the comment at :942 says as much. REVIEW.md asks that snapshots never be captured from buggy output and that each new test fail without the fix; this block does neither, so it adds maintenance cost without covering the change.

Verification: nit. The new test block runs against the snapshot printer, which this PR does not touch, so the inline snapshots pin pre-existing behaviour rather than anything the PR changes. JSC__JSValue__forEachPropertyOrdered (src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp:5924) is unchanged, so every assertion in the new block passes identically on the base commit.

I kept this block. It is there for #46729, not for the code that this PR changes.

Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729 deletes pretty_format.rs and prints snapshots with the console.log formatter. Its description says: "Snapshot text is kept as it was, old bugs included, because people have those files committed."

After that PR, the arm that this PR adds to Tag::get_advanced also decides snapshot text. A merge build of Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729 with an earlier version of this PR showed the effect. Number.prototype and Boolean.prototype lost their method lists, and a boxed Number with keys lost its sort order and its non-enumerable key. Both test suites stayed green.

The pins make that visible. The boxed rows hold this PR's exact test of the class in place: an instance is not a prototype. The prototype rows fail when the two PRs meet, so the second one to merge has to gate the arm for snapshots or change the text on purpose.

You are right that each assertion passes on the base branch, and that the text is not what Jest prints. That is the text that #46729 promises to keep. The same contract is why I did not change the ordered walk in the { sorted: true } thread. The PR body has this under "The snapshot printer".

If a maintainer prefers to keep that contract in #46729 only, I will drop the block.

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