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Problem

  • A fold reads non-ASCII 8-bit text byte by byte (src/js_parser/visit/visit_expr.rs:1153). process.env.PUBLIC_OWNER[0] is "\x00" for Élodie under bun build --env 'PUBLIC_*' --minify. Since 1.4.0 a --define or macro JSON string has the fault, also in bun run: with T="aéb", ("x" + T).length is 5.
  • A file with const s = "abc"; s.length = 1 does not load: SyntaxError: Left side of assignment is not a reference. No issue reports these faults.

Fix

  • EString::order compares by UTF-16 code unit, unary + trims non-ASCII white space, and the React Compiler's + decodes an 8-bit operand.
  • .length of a joined string, "s"[n] and .charCodeAt(n) leave non-ASCII 8-bit text for run time.
  • "s".length, "s"[n] and [x][0] keep a write or delete target. {k: v}.k does not match a UTF-16 key by byte.
  • Verified: transpiler.test.js, react-compiler.test.ts, bundler_minify.test.ts, bundler_env.test.ts (20 of 21 new tests fail on main), test/bundler/, test/aot/parallel. Self-reviewed: 42 concerns raised, 36 addressed (Notes).

Background

Downsides

  • A branch on a read that is left stays. if (T[3] === "?") require("./missing.js") builds on 1.4.2 and fails here, as on 1.3.13.
  • .text +1,536 B, up to 103 more instructions per folded constant, a new transpiler cache version.
Notes

Which release has which fault. The first three rows run with bun, with no minify flag. T is "aéb".

Input 1.3.13 1.4.2 and main this PR node
bun --define 'T="aéb"': [("x" + T).length, T[1], ({"é": 3}).é] [4,"é",null] [5,"\x00",3] [4,"é",null] [4,"é",null]
A macro that returns Response.json(...), no define: [("x" + T).length, T[1], (T + "x")[3], T.charCodeAt(3), H < L, +N] [4,"é","x",null,true,1] [5,"\x00","b",98,false,null] [4,"é","x",null,true,1] the same
const s = "abc"; function never() { s.length = 1 } console.log("ran") does not load does not load ran ran
PUBLIC_OWNER=Élodie in .env, bun build --env 'PUBLIC_*' --minify: process.env.PUBLIC_OWNER[0] "\x00" "\x00" "É"

What each fold printed on main and prints now. H is "😀", L is "\uffee", N is "\u00a01" (a no-break space and 1). All rows are with --minify-syntax. .charCodeAt(n) and unary + and - fold the same way with no minify flag.

Input main this PR node
("x" + T).length 5 "xaéb".length 4
T[1], (T + "x")[1] "\x00" "aéb"[1], "aébx"[1] "é"
T[3] "b" "aéb"[3] undefined
T.charCodeAt(3) 98 "aéb".charCodeAt(3) NaN
H < L !1 !0 true
+N, -N, ~N NaN, NaN, -1 1, -1, -2 1, -1, -2
+T, T < "b", T[0], T.charCodeAt(0) NaN, !0, "a", 97 the same the same
"abc".length = 1 3 = 1 "abc".length = 1 TypeError in strict code
delete "abc"[0], delete [x][0] delete "a", delete x as written TypeError in strict code, true
({"é": 1}).é 1 { "é": 1 }.é undefined

Where the text comes from.

  • A --define or a bunfig [define] string, and the JSON Response of a macro. The macro needs no flag.
  • An inlined env value (bun build --env).
  • A path that the bundler inlines. A file named dép.cjs makes module.id.charCodeAt(3) 112 on main in a default bun build, and 46 here. In a CommonJS bundle (--format=cjs, the default of --bytecode) import.meta.dir is the build directory. In a directory named dér, with const base = `${import.meta.dir}/assets/`, main folds base.length to the count of bytes, one more than the length. So p.slice(base.length) of base + "logo.svg" is ogo.svg.
  • The React Compiler reads the same length. With --react-compiler --minify-syntax, [`x${T}`.length, ("x" + T).length, T.length, K.S.length] with enum K { S = "x" + T } is [5, 5, 3, 5] on main and [4, 4, 3, 4] here. Its join of an 8-bit string with a UTF-16 string took each byte as a code unit: with --react-compiler and no minify flag, T + "é" is "aébé" on main and "aébé" here.

The changes. Three of them are in the shared EString methods, so each reader gets them.

  • EString::javascript_length gives no length for a joined string that has a non-ASCII 8-bit part. A joined string keeps rope_len, which counts bytes, also after it is made flat. A flat non-ASCII 8-bit string already gave none. fold.rs had its own copy of this method and of eql_bytes under a comment that said the methods could not be called from there. They can, so the copies are gone.
  • EString::order compares 8-bit text with strings::order_utf16. UTF-8 bytes order by code point and JavaScript orders by UTF-16 code unit, so "😀" < "\uffee" is true and its bytes say false. The method has one more caller, the sort of trustedDependencies in package.json. The two orders differ only where a character outside the BMP meets one from U+E000 to U+FFFF, and a package name is ASCII.
  • Unary +, -, ~: main gives NaN for a non-ASCII 8-bit string, which is wrong when the text is white space that Number() trims. Data::to_number trims with strings::trim_js_whitespace first. Both of its arms (a string and an inlined enum member) call one helper.
  • The React Compiler: push_units (src/react_compiler/optimization/constant_propagation.rs) decodes an 8-bit operand of + with strings::wtf8_to_utf16.
  • "s"[n] and .charCodeAt(n): the bytes up to the index must be ASCII. The check replaces the debug_assert! of the index fold.
  • The key of {k: v}.k: a UTF-16 key matched a name where each code unit equals one byte of the name, so {"é": 1}.é folded. The rule now matches an 8-bit key only. {"é": 1}.é stays as on main. To fold it is js_parser: use EString::eql_bytes in the {k: v}.k fold, keep this for template tags #32297, which also has to keep this and the function name that the key gives.
  • "s".length checks for a write and a delete, and "s"[n] and [x][0] check for a delete. [x][0] = v has its check since js_parser: stop the [x][0] / {f:x}.f folds from changing optional-chain / this / assignment semantics #36730, and the rule for {k: v}.k has both.

Bytes that are not UTF-8. A .env file in Latin-1 gives such text. strings::order_utf16 reads a byte that is part of no sequence as U+FFFD, which is what process.env gives for the same value at run time. So a fold gives what the program gives when the value is not inlined. With PUB_X=Andr\xe9s and PUB_Y=Andr\xe9a, PUB_X > PUB_Y is true in both. A first revision left such text for run time, and the review showed why that is worse: main prints the literal as "Andr\x00", so the comparison at run time is false. #46269 corrects that print. === compares the bytes, as on main.

Dead branches. A fold that gives a constant lets the bundler remove a branch, and an import in a removed branch is not resolved. Each column is if (test) require("./missing.js"), built with --minify-syntax and --define 'T="aéb"' --define 'E="éaa"'.

Build ("x"+T).length > 100 !("x"+T).length T[3] === "?" !T[2] T.charCodeAt(3) > 200 E[2] === "b" +T T[0] === "?"
1.3.13 fails fails fails fails fails fails fails fails
1.4.2 and main builds builds builds builds builds builds builds builds
this PR fails fails fails fails fails fails builds builds

Write and delete targets that this PR leaves. Checked on a build of this PR:

#45658 is the PR for these and for the other folds of maybe_rewrite_property_access. The three guards here are the ones whose value is a string or a list element.

Other open PRs on the same lines.

Not in this PR. Readers of the first part of a joined string, such as require.resolve("./lib" + "/dep.js"), which resolves ./lib. #38944 fixes them in EString::string() and eql_bytes. That change adds 10,496 B of .text, because these helpers are inlined into the readers of package.json, YAML and INI files.

Measurements (release builds of main 3f3a9ff and of this change, same host compiler)

  • .text: 140,313,250 to 140,314,786 B (size bun-profile), +1,536 B. By symbol: string_to_number +753 (it holds the trim), has_non_ascii_bytes +306, the checks of the index and .charCodeAt folds +676, push_units +70, and 310 B less where to_number, order and the copy of eql_bytes are smaller or gone. The stripped binary grows by one page.
  • User instructions, bun build --no-bundle --minify-syntax, 20,000 rows each, median of 5 interleaved runs, for each folded row: "abcdef".length +28, ("abc" + "def").length +103, "abcdef"[3] +54, "abcdef".charCodeAt(3) +43, "abc" < "abd" +39, +"123" +34, {a: 1}.a +11, [f][0] +1. typescript.js (9.1 MB): 987,358,488 and 987,361,194, byte-identical output. Counted with perf_event_open (user mode, children included).
  • Reach: one --minify --target=node bundle for each of 1,232 packages in the two node_modules stores of this repository. 1,218 build on both, and none differs. The packages are ASCII, so this shows that an ASCII fold is as before.

Tests

  • transpiler.test.js, 13 tests, 12 fail on main. Four in "property access inlining": a write or delete target, the key compare, a bun -e run that checks what the program does, and a write through a const string. Nine in "8-bit text that is not ASCII". One of the nine generates 3,400 reads (8 operands alone and in pairs joined by + and by a template, under 25 consumers) and compares the transpiled program with the source in the same engine. Main is wrong in 527 of them. One runs a macro that returns a JSON Response, and one runs bun --define ... -e.
  • react-compiler.test.ts: react-compiler/NonAsciiDefineTextJoinedToOtherText, with and without minifySyntax. It reads four lengths and three joins. Both fail on main.
  • bundler_minify.test.ts: minify/StringFoldsOfNonAsciiDefineText, ...WithoutMinify, ...FileName and ...BuildDirectory. All four fail on main. They are also rows of the AOT measure "minifying first saves no code". The AOT evaluator does not fold 8-bit text that is not ASCII (src/sema/fold/evaluate.rs:406 and :463), so three of the rows are larger as written and stand in known-today.ts.
  • bundler_env.test.ts: env/inline non-ascii, taken from Store non-ASCII define, env, macro and inlined path strings as UTF-16 so they fold like literals #42019, and a .env file with values that are not UTF-8. The second one builds with --env, and compares the bundle with a run of the source that reads .env at run time. Both fail on main.
  • A larger matrix outside the tree: 820 constant string expressions times 29 consumers, 23,780 rows, built as a bundle, through Bun.Transpiler and run with bun run --define. Every row gives what node gives. Main differs in 1,510 rows in each of the three. In the bun run form, 1.3.13 differs in 0 rows and 1.4.2 in 1,510.
  • Two more generated matrices (31,232 and 23,232 reads of literals, built by main and by this change and run under node): no read behaves worse. 3 reads under delete now give what node gives, and 5 files load where the output of main is a SyntaxError (3 = 5, delete x).
  • test/bundler/ (163 files): 8,024 tests pass with a release build. 2 fail as they do with a build of main (bytecode cache portability).
  • test/aot/parallel: 7,171 of 7,184 programs pass with a release build of 9a38af3 (the commit before the React Compiler line), 12 are skipped, and module-loaders/raw-behind-a-path-asks-for-the-text-of-the-file fails as it does in CI on main (build 136408).

Self-review. Two reviews raised 42 concerns: 11 on these fixes while they were part of #47604, and 31 on the second commit here. 36 are addressed. The second review moved the fixes into the shared EString methods, removed two checks for bytes that are not UTF-8 that made a Latin-1 .env worse than main, and asked for the release table, the macro and build directory tests, and the list of what is left. 6 are not taken:

no test proof · iteration 1 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts

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js_parser: string folds keep a write or delete target and 8-bit text …
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Two faults in the folds of a string constant. Both also run in
`bun run`.

A write or a `delete`. `"abc".length = 1` printed `3 = 1`, a
SyntaxError when the file loads. `delete "abc"[0]` and `delete [x][0]`
printed `delete "a"` and `delete x`. These folds now keep a write
target and a `delete` target.

8-bit text that is not ASCII. A define, an inlined env value and an
inlined file name are 8-bit strings. Five folds read one byte of such a
string as one character: `.length` of a joined string, `"s"[n]`,
`.charCodeAt(n)`, the four relational operators, and unary `+`, `-`
and `~`. Each now leaves such text for run time. The key of a literal
with one property no longer matches a name byte for code unit.
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The PR updates string ordering, length, and numeric conversion for non-ASCII strings. It changes parser folding rules for write and delete targets, increments the runtime transpiler cache version, and adds regression tests across bundler and transpiler paths.

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String ordering and conversion
src/ast/e.rs, src/ast/expr.rs, src/react_compiler/optimization/constant_propagation.rs, test/bundler/bundler_env.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_minify.test.ts, test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts, test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js, test/aot/minifying-first-saves-no-code/known-today.ts		 EString ordering and rope length checks account for UTF-16 ordering and non-ASCII bytes. String numeric conversion trims JavaScript whitespace for supported UTF-8 strings. Constant propagation decodes WTF-8 into UTF-16 code units. Tests cover non-ASCII text, invalid UTF-8 environment values, filenames, and joined text.
Parser folding safeguards
src/js_parser/visit/visit_expr.rs, src/js_parser/fold.rs, src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs, test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js		 Indexed-literal folding excludes delete targets. String index and charCodeAt folds use ASCII-prefix checks. Length and object-property folding use updated checks, and the cache version changes from 51 to 52. Tests cover writes, deletes, and folding results.

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  • oven-sh/bun#47464 — The PR adds React Compiler coverage for joined defined text, but does not show a direct fix for template interpolation dropping later text.
  • oven-sh/bun#45007 — The PR changes folding around write and delete targets, but does not address assignment to an inlined identifier.

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❌ @robobun, your commit bf41088 has 40 failures in Build #136690 (All Failures):

🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 47655

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-47655 executable, so you can run:

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Reproduced on main (release build of 3f3a9ff):

printf 'PUBLIC_OWNER=Élodie\n' > .env
echo 'console.log(process.env.PUBLIC_OWNER[0].codePointAt(0));' > app.js
bun build --env 'PUBLIC_*' --minify app.js --outfile out.js && node out.js
# main and 1.3.13:  0      (a NUL character)
# this PR:          201    (É)

echo 'console.log(("x" + T).length, T[1], T.charCodeAt(3), H < L, +N);' > a.js
bun --define 'T="aéb"' --define 'H="😀"' --define 'L="\uffee"' --define 'N="\u00a01"' a.js
# main:     5  98 false NaN     (the second value is a NUL character)
# this PR:  4 é NaN true 1      (node and bun 1.3.13 print the same)

printf 'const label = "ready";\nfunction neverCalled() { label.length = 0; }\nconsole.log("ran", label);\n' > b.mjs
bun b.mjs
# main:     SyntaxError: Left side of assignment is not a reference.
# this PR:  ran ready           (node prints the same)

bun bd test on test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js, test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_minify.test.ts and test/bundler/bundler_env.test.ts: 20 of the 21 new tests fail on main and all pass with this change.

#47604 (a fold of a read of an object literal with several properties) waits for this PR.

CI: build 136690 is red, and the diff is not the cause. Each of its 40 red test files also fails on main (build 136408, the commit this branch is based on). The four test files of this PR ran on 10 test lanes with no failure: 7 Linux lanes, macOS aarch64, and Windows x64 and aarch64 (read from the job logs). The macOS x64 test jobs did not run. They waited 6 hours for an agent, expired four times, and the build ended without them.

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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 two things in the fold guards and they hold: the <-family fold kept when only one 8-bit side is non-ASCII (src/ast/expr.rs:740) agrees in byte and UTF-16 code-unit order, because at the first differing position an ASCII byte is below any UTF-8 lead byte and an ASCII code unit is below any non-ASCII code unit; and the new [..=n] slices in the "s"[n] and .charCodeAt(n) folds (src/js_parser/visit/visit_expr.rs:1153, :2584) are bounded by the existing n < len checks, so neither can panic.

Extended reasoning...

The change tightens five constant-string folds in the JS parser (src/ast/e.rs, src/ast/expr.rs, src/js_parser/fold.rs, src/js_parser/visit/visit_expr.rs) so they skip non-ASCII 8-bit text and write/delete targets, and bumps the runtime transpiler cache version to 52. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Inline findings were already filed, and this note only records the two adjacent guards I verified independently.

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js_parser: read 8-bit text as the engine does in the relational and u…
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…nary folds

`<`, `<=`, `>` and `>=` on two 8-bit strings that are not ASCII now use
`strings::order_utf16`, and unary `+`, `-` and `~` trim white space that
is not ASCII with `strings::trim_js_whitespace`. So these folds keep
folding and give what the engine gives. Bytes that are not UTF-8 are
left for run time.
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Nitpick Assert that --env inlined the PUB references before comparing outputs.

237-238: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert that --env inlined the PUB_ references before comparing outputs.

The test checks only that the folded and runtime comparison lines match. If the build does not inline PUB_A and PUB_B, both lines evaluate the same runtime expressions and match. The test then passes without checking the folded comparison. Add an assertion that out.mjs no longer contains process.env.PUB_ references. The file does not import path, so add that import too.

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 import { bunEnv, bunExe, tempDir } from "harness";
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+  expect(await Bun.file(path.join(String(dir), "out.mjs")).text()).not.toContain("process.env.PUB_");

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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 two edges of the new guards: extract_string_values only bails when both 8-bit sides are non-ASCII, so a comparison of all-ASCII text against a value holding invalid bytes still folds — that is sound, since strings::order_utf16 decodes invalid sequences as U+FFFD without panicking and the first difference against ASCII text orders the same by byte and by code unit. The string_to_number refactor also keeps main's NaN for non-whitespace non-ASCII text, because string_to_equivalent_number_value still rejects non-ASCII after the trim; and the new [..=num] / [..=float as usize] slices are guarded by the existing length checks.

Extended reasoning...

The second commit switched the four relational folds to order_utf16, which addresses the nit from the prior review on src/ast/expr.rs. The remaining inline findings are a pre-existing byte-equality gap in Data::eql and a test pipe-draining nit; the source changes themselves are small, scoped to parser constant folds, bump the transpiler cache version, and touch no security-sensitive surface.

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test: a write to a member of a const string, the inlining of the env …
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…test, and the AOT measure rows

A const string is inlined at each use, so `s.length = 1` reaches the
`.length` fold as a literal. On main the file fails to load with
`SyntaxError: Left side of assignment is not a reference.`

The env test for values that are not UTF-8 now checks that the build
inlined them. The run reads the same `.env`, so without the check a
value that was not inlined would compare the same in both lines.

The three new cases in bundler_minify.test.ts are rows of the AOT
measure "minifying first saves no code". The AOT evaluator does not
fold 8-bit text that is not ASCII, so they are larger as written and
go to known-today.ts.
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- `EString::javascript_length` gives no length for a joined string that
  has a non-ASCII 8-bit part. The React Compiler reads this method too,
  so `` `x${T}`.length `` is right there as well. `fold.rs` calls the
  method, and its own copies of `javascript_length` and `eql_bytes` are
  gone. The comment that said the methods could not be called was stale.
- `EString::order` compares 8-bit text by UTF-16 code unit.
  `EString::order_utf16` is gone, and `visit_binary.rs` is as on main.
- The two checks for bytes that are not UTF-8 are gone. They left a
  comparison of Latin-1 `.env` values for run time, where the printed
  literal is `"Andr\x00"`. `strings::order_utf16` reads such bytes as
  `process.env` does, and main had that comparison right.
- `{k: v}.k` matches an 8-bit key only.

Tests: a React Compiler case, a macro that returns a JSON `Response`,
half of a surrogate pair in a define, `import.meta.dir` in a CommonJS
bundle, and a `.env` test that compares the bundle with a run of the
source.
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The nitpick on test/bundler/bundler_env.test.ts is taken: the test now checks that out/out.mjs has no process.env.PUB_ left. It also runs the bundle in a folder that has no .env, and compares it with a run of the source that reads .env at run time.

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Minor follow-up Clear the fixture PUB keys from the inherited environment in this test.

229-231: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Clear the fixture PUB_* keys from the inherited environment in this test.

bunEnv spreads process.env, so an inherited PUB_A or PUB_N overrides the fixture .env value. The fixed expectation then fails. Set each fixture key to undefined in the env objects for the build and run subprocesses.

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Review comment at @test/bundler/bundler_env.test.ts around lines 229 - 231:
Update the `env` objects for the build and run subprocesses in this test to set
the fixture keys `PUB_A` and `PUB_N` to `undefined`, preventing inherited
`process.env` values from overriding the `.env` fixture values.
Nitpick Add a runtime check for ++ on the inlined string member.

305-307: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add a runtime check for ++ on the inlined string member.

neverCalled contains label.length++, but the test never calls it. The attempt(...) calls cover assignment and delete only. If a change alters how an update expression folds on an inlined string, this test's runtime output does not change.

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         console.log(
           label,
           attempt(() => { "use strict"; label.length = 1; }),
           attempt(() => { "use strict"; return delete label.length; }),
           attempt(() => { "use strict"; return delete label[0]; }),
+          attempt(() => { "use strict"; label.length++; }),
         );
-        stdout: "ready TypeError TypeError TypeError\n",
+        stdout: "ready TypeError TypeError TypeError TypeError\n",

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Review comment at @test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js around lines 305 -
307:
Add a runtime assertion for the update expression in the test containing
`neverCalled` and `attempt`: invoke `label.length++` through `attempt` in strict
mode and include its expected `TypeError` in the asserted output.
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test: a fixture that an inherited PUB_ value cannot change, and ++ …
d24a0e1 
…on a member of a const string

The env test deletes its `PUB_*` names from the environment of the
build and of the runs, because a value that the test process inherits
wins over the one in `.env`. The const string test also runs
`label.length++` in strict code.
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Both follow-up findings are taken in d24a0e1.

  • test/bundler/bundler_env.test.ts: the test deletes its six PUB_* names from the environment of the build and of the two runs. A run with PUB_A and PUB_N set in the parent passes.
  • test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js: the const string test also runs label.length++ in strict code and expects a TypeError.

About the two issues in the walkthrough: the repro of #47464 gives the right templates on main 3f3a9ff already, without this PR. #45007 is an error for a write to the const binding itself, and this PR does not change it.

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

The latest push addresses the earlier order_utf16 and pipe-draining notes; beyond the inline finding, I also checked the shared helpers this round. EString::push only links 8-bit segments, so has_non_ascii_bytes walking the rope and rope_len counting bytes agree; extract_string_values flattens both ropes before EString::order sees the bytes, so order_utf16 never compares a partial head segment; and string_to_number on Latin-1 .env bytes that are not UTF-8 still returns NaN after the trim, which matches Number() on the U+FFFD text the runtime sees.

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The diff touches the JS parser's string constant folds in src/ast/e.rs, src/ast/expr.rs, src/js_parser/fold.rs and src/js_parser/visit/visit_expr.rs, bumps the transpiler cache version, and adds bundler, env, React Compiler and transpiler tests; it touches no auth, crypto or injection surface. The one inline finding is a pre-existing byte-widening in src/react_compiler/optimization/constant_propagation.rs outside the diff, so a human should weigh whether it belongs in this PR.

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

  • 🟣 src/react_compiler/optimization/constant_propagation.rs — pre-existing: a --react-compiler build that joins a non-ASCII 8-bit string (a --define, inlined env value or path) to a UTF-16 literal gets a wrong constant, same as on the base branch. push_units at src/react_compiler/optimization/constant_propagation.rs:812 widens each 8-bit byte to a code unit, so TEXT + "é" with TEXT defined as "aéb" becomes "aébé". Fix: decode WTF-8 to UTF-16 (as JsString::from_wtf8_bytes already does at src/react_compiler/diagnostics/js_string.rs:40-42) before pushing, or bail when the 8-bit side is not ASCII, so every 8-bit/UTF-16 join in the React Compiler gives the engine's string.

    Why this was flagged

    Input: a component compiled with --react-compiler that evaluates TEXT + "é" where TEXT is --define TEXT='"aéb"' (8-bit WTF-8) and "é" is a source literal (the lexer stores non-ASCII literals as UTF-16). evaluate_binary_op at src/react_compiler/optimization/constant_propagation.rs:861-877 takes the _ arm because r.as_bytes() is None, and push_units at line 812 does s.slice8().iter().map(|&b| b as u16), turning bytes C3 A9 into two code units U+00C3 U+00A9. Line 497 stores the result as the instruction's Primitive, so the emitted bundle contains "aébé" (length 5) where the engine computes "aébé" (length 4). The base branch does the same; this PR fixes the parser's folds for 8-bit non-ASCII text and adds a React Compiler length test, but this sibling join in the same class is untouched. The 8-bit/8-bit path at lines 863-868 is correct because JsString::from_wtf8_bytes (src/react_compiler/diagnostics/js_string.rs:36-42) decodes non-ASCII bytes to UTF-16; the mixed path skips that decoder.

    Verification: pre-existing. Trigger: a --react-compiler build where a component evaluates X + "<non-ASCII literal>" with X an 8-bit non-ASCII string. src/react_compiler/optimization/constant_propagation.rs:861-877 takes the _ arm because r.as_bytes() is None for the UTF-16 operand, and line 812 widens each byte to a code unit, so "aéb" + "é" yields "aébé" instead of "aébé".

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react_compiler: read an 8-bit string by UTF-16 code unit in a join wi…
64f307c 
…th a UTF-16 string

`push_units` took each byte of an 8-bit string as one code unit. With
`--react-compiler` and `--define TEXT="aéb"`, `TEXT + "é"` was
`"aébé"` and its length was 5. It now decodes the WTF-8 bytes with
`strings::wtf8_to_utf16`.
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The finding outside the diff is taken in 64f307c: push_units decodes an 8-bit operand with strings::wtf8_to_utf16.

With --react-compiler and --define 'TEXT="aéb"' (no minify flag), [TEXT + "é", "é" + TEXT, (TEXT + "é").length] is ["aébé", "éaéb", 5] on main and ["aébé", "éaéb", 4] now. The React Compiler test of this PR has the three rows (react-compiler/NonAsciiDefineTextJoinedToOtherText). I found no other place in the parser, printer and React Compiler sources that takes a byte of string data as a code unit.

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test: delete every inherited PUB_ name from the env fixture, in any case
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On Windows a name of the environment matches in any case, so an
inherited `pub_a` would win over the `.env` file too.
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