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Problem

  • A parser SyntaxError in a bun build --sourcemap bundle has line of the original file and sourceURL of the bundle: { line: 3, sourceURL: "out/entry.js" } beside at <parse> (second.ts:3).
  • The <parse> block of formatStackTrace (src/jsc/bindings/FormatStackTraceForJS.cpp:290) stores the mapped line only.
  • A thrown Object.create(err) prints at thrower.ts:2 for an error on line 6: exceptionFromString (src/jsc/bindings/ZigException.cpp:805) uses originalLine, the line before the source map.

Fix

  • The block stores sourceURL from the same remapped frame as line, like the arm for errors with frames (Fix various bugs with function names and source mappings involving eval and node:vm #16212). Uncaught and logged parser errors print as before.
  • exceptionFromString prints sourceURL:line.
  • Verified: test/js/bun/test/stack.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_compile.test.ts (4 new tests fail on 1.4.3, 1 is test.failing). Also ran the sourcemap suites.
  • Self-reviewed: 28 concerns raised, 22 addressed. The other 6 want an exact lookup first.

Background

  • A parser SyntaxError comes from JavaScriptCore and has no stack frame at the error. formatStackTrace adds at <parse> (file:line), mapped at column 0.
  • Considered both values in the loaded file: a transpiled file would report a transpiled line. A single writer or a JavaScriptCore hook fixes no more cases.

Downsides

  • error.sourceURL of these errors changes (31 of 53 probed cases). In a --minify bundle it names the first module of the line, like line.
  • An object with originalLine from Error.captureStackTrace (handlebars' Exception, a DOMException) prints its own line, not the capture's. A copy that names a loaded, unparsed bundle is mapped twice.
  • Cost: 10 more instructions in formatStackTrace for such an error (1077 to 1087), 2 for a JSON.parse SyntaxError, 0 for other errors. Release .text is 256 bytes smaller.
Notes

Repro

// first.ts
export const first = 1;
// second.ts
export const a = 1;
export const b = 2;
export const re = /(/;
// entry.ts
import { first } from "./first.ts";
import { re } from "./second.ts";
console.log(first, re);
bun build --target=bun --sourcemap=linked --outdir=out entry.ts
bun -e 'try { require("./out/entry.js") } catch (e) { console.log(e.line, e.sourceURL, e.stack.split("\n")[1]) }'
# 1.4.3: 3 <dir>/out/entry.js     at <parse> (<dir>/second.ts:3)
# now:   3 <dir>/second.ts        at <parse> (<dir>/second.ts:3)

The bundler does not check a regular expression literal, so the error comes from JavaScriptCore. No issue reports the mixed pair. It was found by reading the block. It dates from #10998, which let the source map of a bundle rename the file.

Why both values name the file of the mapped line

  • formatStackTrace writes line, column and sourceURL of an error with frames from one remapped frame (the if (!hasSet) arm, Fix various bugs with function names and source mappings involving eval and node:vm #16212). The <parse> block sets hasSet, so that arm does not run for a parser error.
  • test/aot/stack-frame-paths.test.ts:1-3 states the rule: "Whatever reads a frame's file gets that text: Error.stack, call sites, error.sourceURL, console.trace and the uncaught-exception printer."
  • sourceURL is now the file that the at <parse> line of .stack names. Both come from one lookup at column 0 of the generated line: a source file where the lookup finds a mapping, the loaded file where it does not.
  • A file that Bun transpiles at run time has one URL before and after the map. With both values in the loaded file, its line would be a line of the transpiled text.

error.sourceURL by shape (line and .stack are the same on 1.4.3 and on this branch)

Shape .stack names 1.4.3 sourceURL now
two modules, error in second.ts:3 second.ts:3 out/entry.js second.ts
the same with --minify first.ts:1 min/entry.js first.ts, the wrong module
bun build ./index.ts ./nested/index.ts --outdir out out/nested/index.ts:3 out/nested/index.js out/nested/index.ts, which does not exist
new vm.Script(text, { filename }), filename is a loaded bundle with a map the filename, then <parse> in the map's source the filename the map's source
--compile --sourcemap executable second.ts:3 /$bunfs/root/second.js second.ts

A structured clone

structuredClone(e) copies line and sourceURL. If the copy gets frames later (Error.captureStackTrace), the block runs again with those values. 1.4.3 maps the mapped line a second time through the map of the bundle: { line: 1, sourceURL: "out/entry.js" } and at <parse> (first.ts:1). Now the copy starts from second.ts, which has no map: { line: 3, sourceURL: "second.ts" }.

The printer

The error printer falls back to sourceURL and line when the stack has no frame that it can parse. With the mixed pair it printed lines of the bundle under the line number of the original:

1 | // @bun
2 | // first.ts
3 | var first = 1;
    ^
SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: missing )
      at out/entry.js:3:1

It now prints lines 1 to 3 of second.ts and at second.ts:3:1. In a --compile --sourcemap executable sourceURL is the bare name second.ts, so this fallback opens that name in the current directory. 1.4.3 printed the first lines of the embedded bundle there.

exceptionFromString prints a thrown object that is not an Error. It printed sourceURL:originalLine (#3441, with TODO: don't sourcemap it twice). At that time the printer mapped the position again at column 0, so it needed the line before the map. Since #22739 the printer passes the missing column as it is, and a source map that is already parsed then has no mapping for the frame. sourceURL is the file after the map since #16212. So the pair was a file after the map with a line before it:

Thrown object 1.4.3 now
Object.create(err), or an object with the property descriptors of err, err on line 6 of a .ts file at thrower.ts:2 at thrower.ts:6
an object made from the parser error above at out/entry.js:6 at second.ts:3
X.prototype = new Error() on line 9, Error.captureStackTrace(this, X), thrown on line 13 (handlebars) at hbs.ts:10 at hbs.ts:9
controller.signal.reason from controller.abort() on line 8, after Error.captureStackTrace(reason) on line 2 of the same .mjs file at abort.mjs:2 at abort.mjs:6
  • The handlebars object has its own originalLine (the place of the capture, before the map) and inherits line and sourceURL from its prototype. Neither build prints the place of the throw.
  • A DOMException has the line and sourceURL that JavaScriptCore gave it when it was made, before the source map (line 6 above is line 8 without the two comment lines over it). Error.captureStackTrace then gives it an originalLine, the line of the capture. pg, pg-pool and undici call it on what rejected. 1.4.3 printed the file of the one with the line of the other. The printer now shows the DOMException's own position.
  • So the frame is not marked as remapped, which fromErrorInstance does for an Error with originalLine: on another object originalLine does not show that line and sourceURL are mapped. Measured with the mark: a bundle that aborts on src/app.ts:9, with a dependency outside the bundle that calls Error.captureStackTrace on the rejection, prints at out/app.js:6:1. Without the mark it prints at src/app.ts:9:1 (1.4.3: at src/app.ts:2:1).
  • The printer also reads the file that a remapped frame names from the disk, and an object that is not an Error (parsed JSON that is thrown) can name any file. The test row object pins this: no source lines.
  • Not marked, the frame can be mapped again in one case: its sourceURL is a module that this thread loaded and whose source map nothing has parsed yet. Then the first parse looks the frame up at column 0 (src/jsc/SavedSourceMap.rs:369). Measured with a bundle written over its own source (--outdir=.) and an object posted from a worker: 1.4.3 prints index.js:3, this branch index.js:1. Once the map is parsed, 1.4.3 prints index.js:6 and this branch index.js:3.
  • DOMException: record source-mapped positions and a Bun-format stack on internally created exceptions #39320 edits the same lines and sets remapped when the object has originalLine. It also gives a DOMException a mapped position, which that rule needs. error: do not read a frame's source URL from disk unless the loader loaded it #41477 limits which files the printer reads.

Not changed here

  • The <parse> block looks up column 0 of the generated line. On an indented line Bun's printer puts a mapping there that repeats the previous position, so line can be the line of the previous statement (Incorrect line and column numbers when SyntaxError happens #5192). The tests use statements that are not indented.
  • A module that fails to parse with no JS frame on the stack (import(), a static import, the entry point) never reaches the block. It keeps the parser's line and the loaded file, and it has no stack.
  • Under a callable Error.prepareStackTrace the formatter writes none of the three properties.
  • Error.captureStackTrace on a module parse error gives it frames. A read of line, sourceURL or stack while those frames are alive goes through the block and now stores both values. If a collection finds a captured frame dead first, it formats the stack with no error and the block does not run: the location is the place of the capture, as on 1.4.3.
  • bun test --reporter=junit on a test file that is a bundle writes file="dist/thing.test.js" line="14" for a file of 10 lines. bun test --coverage lists dist/lib.js with uncovered lines 13-15, which are lines of src/lib.ts. Both pair a mapped line with the loaded file and are the same on both builds.

Measurements (release builds of main 3f3a9ff and of this branch, bun run build:release, x64 Linux)

main this branch
release bun .text (size) 140,286,972 140,286,716
Bun::formatStackTrace (nm -S) 7777 bytes 7840 bytes
exceptionFromString (nm -S) 2031 bytes 1787 bytes
instructions inside formatStackTrace for one new Error("x").stack (gdb stepi) 1043 1043
the same for a JSON.parse SyntaxError 1392 1394
the same for a parser SyntaxError of a mapped file 1077 1087
calls of Bun__remapStackFramePositions for one require() of a mapped file that fails to parse 2 2
the same for 100 new Error("x").stack 100 100
open and openat calls of that require() run 34 34
BunString::toWTFString calls of that run 11 11

The disassembly of formatStackTrace has 1813 and 1831 instructions. Outside the <parse> block two instructions differ (the register that holds a zero). No export, host function or property name is added.

Probed cases: require and its aliases (module.require, createRequire, Module._extensions, ...), import(), Error.captureStackTrace, structuredClone, node:vm and module._compile, for a sidecar map, an inline map, a CommonJS bundle, a file with no map and a file that Bun transpiles. 31 of 53 change on the first read, all in sourceURL. 6 of the 31 are the node:vm and module._compile cases. No case of a file with no map, of a transpiled file, of Error.prepareStackTrace or of a frameless import() changes.

Self-review: what was not done

  • Six concerns ask to make the lookup exact before this store lands, or to guard it: with the parser's column from JavaScriptCore, or by not mapping a generated line that has mappings of several sources. Not done here. The store is the same statement in that end state, the lookup has its own issue (Incorrect line and column numbers when SyntaxError happens #5192), and a guard changes the at <parse> line and the uncaught output of minified bundles. The minified case is a test.failing with the value it must have.
  • Failing tests for the node:vm and module._compile rows are not added. node:vm: keep a vm SyntaxError's parse location out of the source map of the file its filename names #38362 has tests for the node:vm rows.
  • A review comment on this PR asked to mark an object with originalLine as already mapped. Not done, for the DOMException case above.
  • Two cases above have no tracker: the first parse of a source map looks a frame with no column up at column 0, and a compiled executable reads <cwd>/<name> for the source lines of a frame that is already mapped. No issue is filed with this PR.

Other open PRs on these lines: #45667, #37386, #37432 and #38362 edit the <parse> block and do not write sourceURL. #46554 moves the block into syntaxErrorParseFrame(..., OrdinalNumber& line, bool& hasSetLine), which would need to pass the URL too. #39320 and #32898 edit exceptionFromString.


no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/bundler/bundler_compile.test.ts

…me as its line

The `<parse>` block of formatStackTrace() maps the parser's line through the
source map and stores the mapped line. It left sourceURL as the file that was
loaded. Under a source map that names another file (the output of
`bun build --sourcemap`), `sourceURL:line` named a line that the loaded file
does not have. The block now stores both from the one remapped frame, as the
path for an error with frames does.

exceptionFromString() printed an object that has the properties of an error at
`sourceURL:originalLine`. `sourceURL` is the mapped file and `originalLine` is
the line before the map, so it now prints `sourceURL:line`.
… the arms that stay as they are

The bundles in the tests now have two modules, with the error in the second
one: the expected sourceURL is the source of the mapped line, not the only
source of the map. New rows: a structured clone that gets frames, a file that
Bun transpiles, a map with no mapping for the line, an error with frames, a
module error before it has frames, and Error.prepareStackTrace.

A minified bundle names the first module of the generated line. That case is a
failing test with the reason.

The printer tests throw objects that real code makes: one that inherits from
the error, and one with the property descriptors of an error of a TypeScript
file.
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The change updates syntax-error source URL formatting and ErrorLike line handling. Tests cover parser error locations and printed stacks across mapped and unmapped bundles, transpiled files, cloned errors, and compiled modules.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Frame location handling
src/jsc/bindings/FormatStackTraceForJS.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/ZigException.cpp
Syntax-error formatting assigns the remapped URL to sourceURL. exceptionFromString retains the zero-based line value instead of substituting originalLine.
Parser location and stack tests
test/js/bun/test/stack.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_compile.test.ts
Tests check parser locations and printed stacks across bundle and error cases. A minified-bundle case is marked failing. The compiled-bundler test checks the source URL, line, and stack location for an embedded module syntax error.

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The error-properties test is now concurrent, addressing the outstanding concern. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the supplied scope.

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❌ @robobun, your commit fef4bf9 has 40 failures in Build #136745 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 47698

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-47698 executable, so you can run:

bun-47698 --bun

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Reproduced on main (3f3a9ff) and on Bun 1.4.3. require() of a bun build --target=bun --sourcemap=linked bundle whose second module has the regular expression literal /(/ throws a SyntaxError with { line: 3, sourceURL: "<dir>/out/entry.js" } beside the stack line at <parse> (<dir>/second.ts:3). The steps are in the Notes of the description.

CI: build 136745 of fef4bf9 finished red on 40 test files. The build of main at the base commit (build 136408, 3f3a9ff) is red on the same 40 files. They are 39 files in test/aot/ and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. This PR does not touch them.

The test files of this PR are test/js/bun/test/stack.test.ts and test/bundler/bundler_compile.test.ts. They pass on every lane that runs them: Linux (glibc, musl and ASAN), Windows and macOS, on x64 and on aarch64.

PR: #47698

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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 finding, I also checked two things in src/jsc/bindings/FormatStackTraceForJS.cpp: the WTF::move(remappedSourceURL) happens after the string is appended to the builder, so the at <parse> line is unaffected; and a later Error.captureStackTrace on an already-mapped parser error now starts from the mapped source file, which has no map of its own, so it is not relocated a second time. In ZigException.cpp the deleted block was the only getIfPropertyExists/clearExceptionExceptTermination pair in that branch; the retained line.asNumber() is still guarded by isNumber().

Extended reasoning...

The change touches two C++ error-formatting paths (the <parse> SyntaxError branch of formatStackTrace and the non-Error-object branch of exceptionFromString) plus new tests in test/bundler/bundler_compile.test.ts and test/js/bun/test/stack.test.ts; no security-sensitive surface. The inline finding on the deleted originalLine read-back is the reason a human should look; the move-after-append and the exception-check surface were examined and ruled out.

Comment thread src/jsc/bindings/ZigException.cpp Resolved
…ction out of one test row

An `originalLine` on an object that is not an Error does not show that its
`line` and `sourceURL` are mapped: Error.captureStackTrace() puts one on any
object, and a DOMException keeps the line that JavaScriptCore gave it. The
comment in exceptionFromString() now says so.

The row for an error with frames compared `originalLine`, which the error has
only if no collection formats its stack first. It now compares `sourceURL`
and `line`.
Comment thread src/jsc/bindings/ZigException.cpp Resolved

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Minor follow-up Make the new error-properties test concurrent.

294-294: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Make the new error-properties test concurrent.

The test at test/js/bun/test/stack.test.ts:294 is a top-level sequential test(...). It spawns a Bun process and writes files through tempDir. The test/** guideline asks for test.concurrent in that case. The test has no shared state, so it can run concurrently. Change the declaration to test.concurrent( to match the guideline.

The cost of the current form is small. The test runs one spawn of a small fixture, and it runs in sequence within a test-only file. This has no production impact.

As per coding guidelines: "Prefer concurrent tests over sequential tests: When multiple tests in the same file spawn processes or write files, make them concurrent with test.concurrent or describe.concurrent unless it's very difficult to make them concurrent."

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-test("an object with the properties of an error is printed at the line of the error", async () => {
+test.concurrent("an object with the properties of an error is printed at the line of the error", async () => {

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The test at test/js/bun/test/stack.test.ts:294 is test.concurrent as of fef4bf9. It runs at the same time as the tests of the describe.concurrent block before it.

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