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Problem

• In a with body Bun removes and moves name lookups: with (o) { typeof zzz; } never calls the has trap of o, and const t = g(); var r = t; prints as var r = g(). No user reported this. 0 of 31,972 package files have a with statement.
• The two typeof arms (src/js_parser/scan/scan_side_effects.rs:205, src/js_parser/p.rs:6320) ignore must_keep_due_to_with_stmt. find_symbol (src/js_parser/scan/scan_symbols.rs:40) does not set that flag for a var that the body declares. A var declaration has no flag.

Fix

• Both typeof arms read the flag.
• find_symbol decides the flag after its scope walk, in a cold helper that only a file with with runs. The helper follows a var to its function scope.
• Single-use substitution skips the declaration of such a var.
• Verified: runtime-transpiler.test.ts, transpiler.test.js, bundler_minify.test.ts (main fails 11 new tests), three AOT programs. Self-reviewed: 29 concerns raised, 23 addressed (Notes).

Background

• with (o) { x } asks o for x first. A proxy trap or a getter observes that.
• must_keep_due_to_with_stmt is a bit on an identifier that the removal and folding rules read.
• Weighed: the body visited with dead-code elimination off (built). It broke macro arguments and folded import() specifiers.

Downsides

• A file with with costs 0.6% to 2.2% more instructions. A file without costs less (typescript.js: 1,006,386,501 to 1,003,820,906). .text grows by 1,280 bytes.
• Newly wrong: a kept typeof f throws where the switch-clause lowering is wrong (js_parser: initialize a switch-case function where the switch is entered #40839, Notes).
• Still wrong inside with: an inlined const (js_parser: don't inline a const read that crossed a with scope #42524), new Set() (minify: keep known-global constructors that a with object or a direct eval can shadow #42542), module.require (js_parser: keep module.require() as written in a with body when not bundling #47805), 0 / 0 (js_printer: print 0 / 0 and void 0 where a local binding or with object shadows NaN / undefined #36124).

Notes

Reach. No user reported this. A differential run of transpiled code against Node found the typeof case, and the reviews of the first fix found the rest. Bun.Transpiler output is the same as on main for 31,972 package .js files and 13,141 TypeScript files. A parse of the 217 package files that contain the text with ( finds no with statement. A with body that reaches the engine through new Function, eval or node:vm is not transpiled and is right on main. So this needs a ruling first: should a with body in a file behave as in Node when no known package has one? If not, close this PR together with #42524, #42542 and #47805.

What changes. The table lists the names that the has trap of o sees.

Body of with (o)	Node, untranspiled JSC, this PR	main
typeof zzz;	zzz	(nothing)
if (!typeof zzz) y = 1;	zzz	(nothing)
{ var v; v; typeof v; }	v v	(nothing)
l: do var v = 1; while (v, 0);	v v	v

Order, where g gives o the property r: after var r; const t = g(); r = t;, after const t = g(); var r = t; and after const t = g(); for (var r = t in {});, r is undefined and o.r has the value (Node, untranspiled JSC, this PR). On main the call moves into the statement after it, so r gets the value. A read moves the same way: with var first; let count = 1; const second = count; return [first, second] and a getter first that adds one to count, main returns count after the getter. "Untranspiled JSC" is the same source run through new Function in the same binary.

The flag rule. lookup_asks_with_target is true in two cases. The first is the rule of main: a with scope lies between the current scope and the scope that lists the symbol. The second is new: the symbol is a var, and a with scope lies between the scope that lists it and the nearest scope that stops hoisting. The scope that declares a var lists it (a block, a label, a for head), so on main a read in that scope found the symbol before the walk reached the with scope.

Stores to a var. A var declaration with an initializer looks its name up before the initializer runs, and so does the assignment it is printed as. Three places hand such a store to single-use substitution without a flag: the SLocal arm (src/js_parser/p.rs:2776), the assignment that replaces a top-level var (wrap_identifier_hoisting, src/js_parser/p.rs:8046) and the lowered initializer of a for-in head (src/js_parser/visit/visit_stmt.rs:2055). The first now refuses, the other two set the flag on the target they build, and the existing check of the assignment arm does the rest.

AOT. Removable::simplify_unused models what bun run leaves of an unused expression. It keeps typeof name where bun_sema::import_sites::is_in_with_scope is true (made pub). Without that hunk unused-typeof-of-a-name-inside-a-with-block.cjs fails: plain prints p1 p2 p3 p4 p6 p7, the executable an empty line. I checked that again on the rewritten compiler of #47942. unused-typeof-of-a-global-beside-a-direct-eval.cjs pins that a direct eval alone does not keep the typeof. language/store-to-a-var-of-a-with-block-after-a-call.cjs fails on main: plain prints made property, the executable undefined made.

The body-level design, built and measured. The second review asked for s_with to clear dead_code_elimination while it visits the body, because every rule tests that feature. It is 5 lines and it fixed more shapes (6 wrong of 278 under bun file.cjs, against 14 here). A review of that build found what it breaks, each right on main:

• function () { ; "use strict"; ... } in the body: the string statement is kept and becomes a directive.
• import(false || "./dep.cjs") in the body is no longer bundled, and a macro call show(true ? "a" : "b") fails with "Cannot convert argument type to JS": both need the constant folds that the feature gates.
• A dead branch in the body is visited as live: its macros run, if (0) import("./missing.js") fails the build.
• TypeScript enum numbering and the place of field initializers around super() change in the body.
  So the switch gates more than removal, and this PR keeps the flag.

An earlier producer. The first build of this branch moved a body-declared var out of the block's member table after hoist_symbols. A var declared twice has two linked symbols, and several consumers compare refs without following the link. bun build then dropped a live module-level var. find_symbol writes no scope.

Differential against untranspiled JSC (each shape is a with body over a proxy that logs has, get and set, and wrong means a different log):

Mode	278 shapes: main	this PR	192 more shapes: main	this PR
bun file.cjs	67	14	26	13
Bun.Transpiler, no options	51	7	14	9
Bun.Transpiler, minify.syntax	66	12	26	13
bun build --format=cjs	55	11	23	19
bun build --format=cjs --minify-syntax	71	18	34	22

No shape is right on main and wrong here under bun file.cjs or Bun.Transpiler. In bundles one is: { function g() {} } g; typeof g;. Main drops the typeof g, and its block-function lowering stores g through the object, which gives the right count by accident. 49 programs that store to a var of the body after a call: 29 wrong on main, 0 here.

What is left wrong inside with, by cause.

• Other readers of the flag, each with an open PR that applies on top of this one: an inlined const (js_parser: don't inline a const read that crossed a with scope #42524), new Set(), new Array(1, 2) and the other known-global constructors (minify: keep known-global constructors that a with object or a direct eval can shadow #42542), module.require() (js_parser: keep module.require() as written in a with body when not bundling #47805).
• The printer writes 0 / 0 as the name NaN, and void 0 as undefined without minify (js_printer: print 0 / 0 and void 0 where a local binding or with object shadows NaN / undefined #36124).
• The callee of a /* @__PURE__ */ call is not looked up when the call is removed. The annotation allows that.
• (0, name)() is printed as name(), which passes the object as this.
• Names that the transpiler writes into the body: top-level this printed as exports, and in bundles the helpers of using.
• A function declared in a block of the body (Incorrect function hoisting due to transpiler #23633, js_parser: keep a sloppy block-level function as a declaration when no renamer runs #44741). In bundles its lowering stores the function through the object.
• const obj = { obj: 2 }; with (obj) { obj = 10 } (the fourth snippet of Unexpected behaviour in Bun's static analysis. #13992) still fails to load: the constant-assignment error does not look at the with.
• The default esm bundle and bun build --compile without --format=cjs of a file with with fail to load, on main and here: 'with' statements are not valid in strict mode.

Newly wrong.

• switch (0) { case 0: with (o) { typeof f; } break; case 1: function f() {} } ran on main, because the typeof was removed. It now throws ReferenceError: Cannot access 'f' before initialization. The function of a switch clause is printed as a let of that clause. Main throws the same way when the value is used, and under bun -p. js_parser: initialize a switch-case function where the switch is entered #40839 (draft) fixes the lowering. A test.todo in runtime-transpiler.test.ts holds the shape.

Measurements (release builds of 2596ac5 and of this change on it, linux x64).

User-space instructions of bun build --no-bundle --target=bun <file>, whole process, minimum of 5 runs:

File	main	this PR
typescript.js (9.1 MB)	1,006,386,501	1,003,820,906	-0.25%
react-dom.development.js	87,298,494	87,064,177	-0.27%
lodash.js	34,737,146	34,659,621	-0.22%
test/js/sql/sql.test.ts	53,022,298	52,778,627	-0.46%
src/js/node/http2.ts	27,671,399	27,561,688	-0.40%
typescript.js with --minify-syntax	1,029,772,309	1,027,213,518	-0.25%
lodash.js plus one with statement	34,752,684	35,044,402	+0.84%
200,000 blocks under one with, each with 3 vars and a call that reads them	5,256,284,547	5,373,228,171	+2.22%
the same with let	4,085,623,261	4,120,422,835	+0.85%
2,000 functions, each with a with body	61,860,672	62,230,670	+0.60%

• Inside find_symbol, files without with: lodash.js 997,084 to 918,908 (8,872 lookups), typescript.js 29,809,529 to 27,247,034 (246,103 lookups), sql.test.ts 1,336,540 to 1,095,613 (7,723 lookups). The scope loop lost the test for with (3 instructions per scope). After the loop one test of module_scope.contains_with replaces the test of the flag.
• A file with with calls the helper once per lookup: 34 instructions on average on lodash.js plus one with statement (298,214 instructions in 8,888 calls).
• .text: 108,257,833 to 108,259,113 bytes. The stripped binary has 138,119,440 bytes on both builds. The helper is 125 bytes, one copy. 23 function symbols change size: 21 of the parser, and is_in_with_scope and Removable::simplify_unused of the AOT hunk. No other function changes size.
• With --minify-syntax, files without with run a few more instructions in two functions. visit_stmts: 6,575 more on typescript.js (of 26,425,969), 102 more on sql.test.ts, the same count on lodash.js and react-dom. expr_can_be_removed_if_unused_without_dce_check: 70 more on lodash.js, 246 on react-dom, 272 on typescript.js. Without the option both run the same count. simplify_unused_expr, hoist_symbols, handle_identifier and prepare_for_visit_pass run the same count with and without it.
• Tools: perf_event_open (instructions:u), qemu-x86_64 -d exec,in_asm,nochain -dfilter, llvm-size, llvm-nm -S, llvm-objdump.

Printed output of files with with. 677 files of WebKit's JSTests and Bun's tests contain the text with (: 12 print differently (three option sets), two of them files of this PR. Of the others outside test262, 8 run the same under bun <file> on both builds, and JSTests/es6/Proxy_internal_get_calls_HasBinding.js (with (p) { typeof foo; }) exits 1 on main and 0 here. 324 test262 files with with, each run with its harness through a CommonJS wrapper, give the same verdict on both builds.

Also run. test/bundler/transpiler/ (26 files), test/bundler/esbuild/{dce,default,ts,importstar,importstar_ts,extra,splitting}.test.ts, bundler_{edgecase,cjs2esm,regressions,naming,string,jsx,comments,browser,env}.test.ts, test/cli/run/{transpiler-cache,syntax}.test.ts, test/js/bun/transpiler/, test/internal/source-lints, cargo test -p bun_aot -p bun_sema. The debug build transpiles all 677 files without an assertion. AOT, before the rewrite of the compiler (#47942): 923 programs of test/aot/parallel/{tree-shaking,language,commonjs,bundler,errors} and the 34 programs that contain with passed, and of 137 more probe programs with a with body 82 passed on main and 126 with this change, none only on main. On the rewritten compiler the three AOT programs of this PR pass.

Self-review. Two full rounds and one targeted round. The first found the dropped module-level var of the earlier producer. The second raised 29 concerns on this design. 23 are addressed: the stores to a var (three sites), the catch-binding rule (removed: it changed nothing a program can observe), tests for the Ref::NONE path and the read direction, the removed green-on-main bundles, shorter comments, and this text. It also asked to try the body-level design first. The targeted round reviewed that build and found the regressions above. 6 concerns are not taken: they ask to fold the gates of #42524, #42542 and #47805 into this PR. Each is another open PR for a rewrite that is not dead-code elimination, and each applies on top of this change.

Related open PRs. This PR is the producer of the flag and should land before its readers #42524, #42542 and #47805. They conflict with it only in the cache version line: they take 52 too, as do #36124, #44741 and #47727. The one that lands later takes the next number. This PR makes the todo case dce/VarDeclaredOnlyInWithBody of draft #46284 pass. #38214 edits the same two typeof arms for typeof require. #36720 merges clean.

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^{Updated 8:06 PM PT - Nov 8th, 2026}

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Status

How I reproduced it. This file prints 1 under Node v26.3.0 and 0 under bun typeof.cjs on main:

let calls = 0;
const o = new Proxy({}, { has(target, key) { if (key === "zzz") calls++; return false; } });
with (o) { typeof zzz; }
console.log(calls);

With this branch it prints 1. The same source run untranspiled (through new Function) prints 1 on main too, so the transpiler drops the lookup.

The new tests fail on a debug build of main (11 tests) and pass on this branch:

• test/bundler/transpiler/runtime-transpiler.test.ts (4)
• test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js (5)
• test/bundler/bundler_minify.test.ts (2)

CI on 3f73226 (build 138965): 184 jobs passed and no test is red. The build ends as failed only because the 4 darwin x64 - test-bun jobs never got an agent. They expired four times and did not run. Five test files failed once and passed on a retry. None of them is in the parser or the transpiler: child_process.test.ts, test-child-process-execfile.js, filesink.test.ts, node-http-connect.test.ts, vm.test.ts.

PR: #47890

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Walkthrough

The parser and optimizer now detect when name resolution inside with can reach the with-object. They retain affected typeof expressions and body-declared var reads or stores. The change adds regression coverage for runtime transpilation, AOT, bundling, and minification, and increments the runtime transpiler cache format version.

Changes

With-scope name resolution and preservation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Detect with-object lookup targets src/js_parser/scan/scan_symbols.rs, src/js_parser/p.rs, src/js_parser/visit/visit_stmt.rs, src/sema/import_sites/*, src/ast/scope.rs	Symbol lookup now checks whether a with scope can intercept a name. Var-store construction and substitution use this check, including for for-in initializers.
Preserve observable reads src/aot/compile/removable/unused.rs, src/js_parser/p.rs, src/js_parser/scan/scan_side_effects.rs, src/ast/e.rs, src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs	Originally identifier-form typeof expressions are retained when a with scope can observe the lookup. The cache format version changes from 51 to 52.
Runtime and AOT regression coverage test/aot/parallel/language/*, test/aot/parallel/tree-shaking/*, test/bundler/transpiler/runtime-transpiler.test.ts	Tests cover proxy lookup behavior for typeof, body-declared var reads and stores, lookup order, and runtime output.
Bundler and minifier regression coverage test/bundler/bundler_minify.test.ts, test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js	Tests check lookup order and retained reads in bundled and minified output, including cases where reads remain removable.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#36720: Both PRs change behavior in the unused-expression simplification path for typeof expressions.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii

Merge Risk: Low · up to 3f732

The change preserves observable with-scope lookups, but a narrow switch-clause case can now throw ReferenceError. Merge only with explicit acceptance of that regression or after correcting function initialization.

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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 findings, I also checked the unbound-global early return in find_symbol (src/js_parser/scan/scan_symbols.rs): lookup_asks_with_target(None, Ref::NONE) never indexes self.symbols with Ref::NONE, because the first walk ends with current == None and the is_none() check short-circuits first. The SLocal merge guard at src/js_parser/p.rs:2793 passes current_scope as found_in, which is the scope that lists a var declared in that statement list, so the hoisting walk starts from the right scope there.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the parser's symbol lookup (find_symbol), the unused-typeof removal in three places (p.rs, scan_side_effects.rs, aot unused.rs), the var-to-assignment rewrite targets, the statement-merge optimization, and bumps the runtime transpiler cache version; it touches no security-sensitive surface. Two confirmed inline findings about with-body semantics regressions are posted separately, so a human needs to weigh them; this note only records two adjacent paths that were examined and ruled out.

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Minor · Cross-clause typeof can throw after switch lowering · scan_symbols.rs:193-208

src/js_parser/scan/scan_symbols.rs:193-208
Minor · Stability & Availability · Poor tradeoff

Cross-clause typeof can throw after switch lowering

When a with lookup returns false, a read of a function declared in another switch clause can reach an uninitialized let and throw ReferenceError. The original function binding is initialized when the switch is entered. The per-clause lowering in visit_stmts needs to preserve that initialization.

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Review comment at @src/js_parser/scan/scan_symbols.rs around lines 193 - 208:
Update the per-clause lowering in visit_stmts to preserve the switch-entry
initialization of function bindings across clauses. Ensure a cross-clause
function read reached after a with lookup returns false does not access an
uninitialized let and throw ReferenceError.

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Review comments at @src/js_parser/scan/scan_symbols.rs:
- Around line 177-180: When rebinding a defined identifier, preserve the
resolved with-scope flag so replacement lookups remain observable to proxy has
traps. Locate the replacement-binding logic associated with
lookup_asks_with_target and apply the flag from the resolved lookup to the
replacement identifier; leave unrelated scope resolution unchanged.

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- Around line 193-208: Update the per-clause lowering in visit_stmts to preserve
the switch-entry initialization of function bindings across clauses. Ensure a
cross-clause function read reached after a with lookup returns false does not
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About the switch clause finding in the last review (outside the diff): this PR does not change that lowering.

• The fault is on main for every read that stays, with or without with. switch (0) { case 0: seen = typeof f; break; case 1: function f() {} } throws ReferenceError: Cannot access 'f' before initialization on main. Node runs it.
• This PR keeps one more read, a typeof f; statement inside with, so that read now meets the same fault. The PR description lists it under Downsides.
• js_parser: initialize a switch-case function where the switch is entered #40839 (draft) initializes the function where the switch is entered. A test.todo in test/bundler/transpiler/runtime-transpiler.test.ts holds the shape until it lands.