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Remove 98 unsafe blocks from bun_threading, bun_alloc, the bundler and the transpiler - #47901

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27 separate changes, one commit each: 15 in bun_threading, bun_alloc and a few other low-level crates, and 12 in the bundler and the transpiler. They follow #47291, #47317, #47338, #47382, #47393, #47414, #47871, #47893 and #47895 and work the same way: signatures name the type and the lifetime that the value already has, hand-written pointer code becomes plain ownership and borrows that the compiler checks, and what was never needed is deleted.

Together: 98 fewer unsafe blocks, 26 fewer unsafe fns and 16 fewer unsafe impls, +521/−1440 over 54 files. No safe function became unsafe, and no wrapper type was added. Where the compiled code changes lists every place where the program does different work.

# Change unsafe Diff
1 threading: Semaphore and Channel keep their state in a Guarded −8 blocks, −3 unsafe impl +38/−111, 3 files
2 threading: Task::from_node is a cast, and Batch::pop reads its own len −5 blocks, −1 unsafe fn +7/−11, 1 file
3 threading: IntrusiveWorkTask and OwnedTask are safe traits −5 unsafe impl +11/−22, 2 files
4 alloc: secure_zero takes &mut [u8] −4 blocks, −1 unsafe fn +14/−24, 3 files
5 collections: drop VecExt::from_bump_slice and VecExt::writable_slice −5 blocks, −4 unsafe fn +19/−104, 8 files
6 sema: the stand-ins that ignore their arguments are safe extern "C" fns −11 unsafe fn +11/−14, 2 files
7 alloc, opaque: remove dead code that carried unsafe −2 blocks, −1 unsafe fn, −6 unsafe impl +5/−186, 7 files
8 alloc: WTFStringImplStruct::m_ref_count is an AtomicU32 −1 block +8/−27, 1 file
9 alloc: Mutex::lock returns a guard that borrows the mutex −1 block +20/−40, 1 file
10 alloc: use the reference MaybeUninit::write returns, and index a checked slot −3 blocks +4/−8, 1 file
11 alloc: Zone::init takes &'static CStr −1 block, −2 unsafe fn +10/−22, 4 files
12 threading: a worker's Thread is only ever borrowed shared −4 blocks +52/−62, 1 file
13 threading: Bun__lock takes &ReleaseImpl −1 block, −1 unsafe fn +2/−3, 1 file
14 ptr: DebugData::deinit takes &self −3 blocks +10/−17, 1 file
15 sql: PostgresSQLConnection::drop zeroes options_buf with secure_zero −1 block +2/−5, 1 file
16 bundler: zig__ModuleInfoDeserialized__deinit takes the Box that it drops −3 blocks, −1 unsafe fn +3/−19, 1 file
17 transpiler: print_with_source_map takes Option<&mut ModuleInfo> −1 block +6/−24, 3 files
18 bundler: five unsafe blocks that plain borrows replace −5 blocks +40/−97, 10 files
19 bundler: BundleThread::enqueue takes &self; generation is a local of the thread −7 blocks +23/−49, 1 file
20 bundler: enqueue_entry_points_dev_server borrows the transpiler where it uses it −2 blocks +28/−34, 1 file
21 bundler: process_html_import_files borrows four fields of the parse graph −5 blocks +20/−41, 2 files
22 transpiler: Linker takes what it reads as parameters instead of pointing into its Transpiler −3 blocks +35/−160, 7 files
23 transpiler: Transpiler::init builds its value with a struct literal −2 blocks +21/−57, 3 files
24 bundler: three worker contexts that only read the linker hold &LinkerContext −3 blocks, −2 unsafe impl +21/−52, 5 files
25 bundler: LinkerContext::load and link take the fields they use, not *mut BundleV2 −12 blocks, −1 unsafe fn +56/−134, 4 files
26 bundler: the back-pointers of the tasks name the bundle's lifetime −7 blocks +29/−70, 5 files
27 threading: ThreadPool::each_ptr hands each task a &mut V −9 blocks, −3 unsafe fn +28/−49, 4 files

The commits can be reviewed one at a time.

Worth knowing before reading on:

  • Nothing that users can see changes. No test is added or changed.
  • Five changes end an aliasing or contract bug that had no visible effect.
    • Change 12: a worker's pop(&mut self) was not exclusive, because other workers read the same Thread through the pool's list while it ran.
    • Change 18: is_done held a &mut Graph and a &mut BundleV2 that contains it at the same time, and scan_css_imports was a safe function that dereferenced the raw pointer it was given.
    • Change 21: process_html_import_files made a &mut Graph over the whole graph while the source map workers read it.
    • Change 26: ParseTask::init was a safe function that read through a *mut BundleV2.
    • Change 8: WTFStringImplStruct::ref_count() read a counter without an atomic while other threads may change it.
  • Four functions stay unsafe fn, with a smaller contract that their doc comments state: ThreadRegistration::new (change 12), BundleThread::enqueue (19), do_step5 (24) and LinkerContext::load (25). LinkerContext::link is safe now.
  • Locks own what they guard: Semaphore and Channel use the existing Guarded (change 1), and bun_alloc::Mutex::lock returns a guard with a real lifetime instead of a transmuted 'static one (9).
  • The thread pool vouches for what only it can know: each_ptr gives each task a &mut V (change 27), and three contexts hold &LinkerContext (24).
  • Linker no longer points into the Transpiler that holds it (change 22), so nothing has to be re-seated after a move, and Transpiler::init is a struct literal (23).
  • Two functions that C or C++ calls have typed parameters: Bun__lock(&ReleaseImpl) (change 13) and zig__ModuleInfoDeserialized__deinit(Box<ModuleInfoDeserialized>) (16). Each message names the call sites and what they pass.
  • Dead code goes: MaxHeapAllocator, FfiLayout and three unsafe impl Send/Sync that no bound asks for (change 7), two VecExt methods (5), Transpiler::init_in_place (23), and three accessors of Linker with reseat_self_refs (22).
  • Parts of four changes are compiled only for Windows, macOS or FreeBSD: 7 (two arms of MAX_ALIGN_T), 11 (the macOS arm of Zone::init), 13 (the lock implementations behind Bun__lock) and 19 (one line of thread_main).

Where the compiled code changes

I compared the release assembly (x86-64 Linux, --emit=asm) of all 134 crates of the workspace, before and after. For 42 of them the files are the same byte for byte. The other 92 I compared function by function, with names demangled and labels normalised. In 77 of the 92 (43,319 functions) no function differs: what differs is line numbers in the debug information and the paths of the two checkouts. 15 crates differ:

Crate Functions Differ Other constants or names only Same length Shorter Longer Instructions Branches Compares Calls Panic call sites
bun_alloc 24 0 +11 0 0 +2 0
bun_threading 81 4 1 1 1 1 0 −3 −2 0 0
bun_core 1,159 1 0 0 0 1 +1 0 0 0 0
bun_resolver 509 18 0 9 4 5 +2 +3 +3 +1 0
bun_sql_jsc 409 7 5 0 2 0 −43 −12 −8 +3 0
bun_jsc 1,758 165 154 3 5 3 −4 0 0 0 0
bun_bundler 1,981 54 31 2 20 1 −144 −15 −14 −10 +1
bun_runtime 11,205 544 487 16 32 9 −358 −44 −44 +13 −1
bun_standalone_graph, bun_sourcemap_jsc, bun_lint 4,143 4 0 0 3 1 −6 0 0 0 0
bun_http_jsc, bun_install, bun_install_jsc, bun_js_parser_jsc 3,141 14 11 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

The last five columns are net, and count the functions that exist on one side only: 7 only before and 8 only after, which were removed, renamed or inlined, or are no longer inlined. The table leaves out one function of bun_sql_jsc that holds the commit's own hash. Nearly all of the 689 functions that differ only in constants address a field that moved: the Transpiler, which the VirtualMachine holds by value, is 24 bytes smaller (change 22).

What costs something. No change adds an allocation, a lock, a reference count or a test to the source. The compiler's choices differ in these places:

  • String::clone is called at 17 places where it was inlined (change 8). A ref is the same load, test and lock add as before, but the inliner weighs it differently.
    • String::create_if_different (52 instructions) was called at 16 places in the module loader and had String::clone inlined. It is inlined at those 16 places now and calls String::clone (18 instructions), so each path makes as many calls as before.
    • At 15 other places in bun_runtime, and at one each in bun_jsc and bun_bundler, String::clone is a call and a return more than before. They are in transpile_source_code_of_any_provenance::<false> and transpile_source_code_inner::<true> (6 together), __bun_fetch_builtin_module (3), the three instances of resolve_without_on_resolve, Blob::get, realpath_inner, Printer::print_dom, the debug server's fetch and generate_chunks_in_parallel.
    • transpile_source_code_of_any_provenance::<false> goes from 4,573 to 4,651 instructions for it (below), and transpile_source_code_inner::<true> from 2,682 to 2,687 with 3 branches fewer. The other functions named here are between 13 and 51 shorter, except realpath_inner (below).
  • free_sensitive is a call into bun_alloc (change 4). Without its type parameter it is compiled once there (20 instructions), and Sensitive::drop calls it (21 to 6). The four closures of PasswordJob, Bun.password.hash and Bun.password.verify are between 4 and 41 shorter.
  • Semaphore::wait goes from 54 to 61 (change 1), with the same branches, compares and calls: one lea before its wait loop, because cond is not at offset 0, and one more callee-saved register to save and restore.
  • The one Channel is 8 bytes larger (change 1), 1,072 instead of 1,064, from padding. render_markdown_file, which has it on its stack, goes from 1,007 to 1,013.
  • generate_symbol_import_and_use goes from 257 to 269 (change 5), with the same 29 branches, 3 compares more and one call fewer. Its loops are vectorised and unrolled as before with other induction variables, and the panic for a slice index out of range is gone.

Checks. The source makes no check that it did not make before. These are all the other functions in which the listing shows more conditional branches, compares or panic call sites than before, and why:

Function Listing Why
Resolver::dir_info_cached_miss 1,231 to 1,253, +5 branches, +5 compares, +2 calls Change 9. The compiler lays out the block that appends two strings to the BSSStringList twice, so append has 4 call sites instead of 2. A path runs one of the copies.
NodeFS::realpath_inner 615 to 631, +1 branch, +1 compare, +1 call Change 8. Utf8WithString::clone (78), which only this function called, is inlined here as its two halves.
SystemError::clone, Blob__setAsFile, Request's constructor 161 to 165, 61 to 66 and 1,391 to 1,389, +1 branch and +1 compare each Change 8. The inlined String::clones test their tags in another order, and one test is duplicated.
fetch_impl::<false> 4,629 to 4,626, +3 branches, +3 compares, same calls Change 8. It has a String::clone inline. Its frame is 64 bytes smaller, its registers are allotted differently, and three tests are laid out twice.
transpile_source_code_of_any_provenance::<false> 4,573 to 4,651, +1 branch, +1 compare, +20 calls Change 8. It has ten copies of String::create_if_different inline, each with three call sites where there was one.
The main function of the bundle thread 540 to 566, +2 branches, +2 compares, +1 call Change 19. One exit is laid out twice, so mi_heap_destroy has 5 call sites instead of 4.
BundleV2::finish_from_bake_dev_server 3,953 to 3,963, +2 panic call sites, no branch or compare more Change 25. It calls load. Two bounds checks that shared a call of panic_bounds_check with others have their own.
Transpiler::init, Transpiler::transform 2,035 to 2,010 and 3,865 to 3,862, −4 and −1 branches, +1 panic call site each Changes 22 and 23. One more copy of the exit for a failed allocation.
Change What differs Effect
1 Apart from the above: Semaphore::post (39) and RawRwLock::unlock_shared (46), which has it inline, differ in field offsets. Same locks, waits and signals in the same order.
5 get_ast goes from 4,054 to 4,044, with 2 branches and 2 calls fewer. Two arena allocations fewer per sqlite import.
7 MaxHeapAllocator::drop (9) goes. write_output_files_to_disk goes from 2,794 to 2,770 and loses its 6 call sites. That drop never had anything to free.
8 Apart from the above: String::thread_isolated_copy goes from 73 to 74. In bun_jsc, dupe_with_content_type goes from 113 to 103, PathLike::clone from 254 to 247, run_from_js_thread from 800 to 801 and the two collect_row from 602 to 612. handle_request_for of the two debug servers goes from 348 to 316, and NodeFS::readdir from 5,732 to 5,739. Same counts on the same strings.
9 An out-of-line slot_at (28) stands where the out-of-line at_index of the DirInfo map (26) stood. Apart from the row above, 4 functions of bun_resolver are shorter (load_node_modules by 40, three by 1), 8 keep their length and 4 are longer (by 1, 2, 8 and 10): the slot's address is computed in another order, and registers shift around it. The locks are taken and released at the same places.
10 OverflowList::append (128), in bun_resolver, bun_jsc and bun_install, spells one test > 2047 instead of >= 2048. None.
12 ThreadRegistration::drop goes from 68 to 64 and loses a null test. Thread::run, which has the steal loop inline, is the same. Same loads and stores with the same orderings.
13 Bun__lock is the same, and Mutex::lock (3) is emitted as an alias of it. None.
15 PostgresSQLConnection::drop goes from 94 to 73 and the drop of its box from 381 to 359, with 6 branches fewer each. The byte loop of volatile stores is one memset, which a black_box and a compiler fence keep.
17 print_with_source_map keeps its 1,217 with 2 branches fewer. print_with_source_map_maybe::<false> goes from 1,008 to 999, and the two print_ast_esm_ascii_not_bun_cold from 86 to 78. Same output.
18, 24, 27 generate_chunks_in_parallel::<false> goes from 7,546 to 7,524 with 3 branches fewer, find_all_imported_parts_in_js_order from 3,258 to 3,255. scan_imports_and_exports keeps its 8,343. One instance of each_impl::call (13) has another type argument. Same tasks on the same threads.
20 start_from_bake_dev_server, which has enqueue_entry_points_dev_server inline, goes from 346 to 341 with 2 branches fewer. Same entry points.
22, 23 Five functions that set the Linker's pointers, or set them again after a Transpiler had moved, are 3 to 6 shorter: configure_linker_with_auto_jsx, Worker::get, transpiler_for_target, initialize_client_transpiler and for_worker. Linker::link::<false, true> keeps its 500, and transpile_file::<false> goes from 839 to 855 with one branch fewer. The Transpiler goes from 3,040 to 3,016 bytes.
25 BundleV2::link (39) is new: it splits the borrow and calls LinkerContext::link, which goes from 2,617 to 2,562 with 2 branches, 2 calls and a panic site fewer. load keeps its 1,996 with one branch fewer. Of the four callers of link, three are 5 shorter and bundle_pages 11. Same linking.

Every function that differs and is not named above differs by 4 instructions or fewer. Changes 2, 3, 6, 11, 14, 16, 21 and 26 do not show up in this comparison. What changes 7, 11, 13 and 19 do to code for Windows, macOS and FreeBSD is not compiled on Linux.

The comparison covers x86-64 Linux only, one crate at a time. The build that ships also inlines across crates when it links.

The changes in detail

1. threading: Semaphore and Channel keep their state in a Guarded

Semaphore had a Mutex next to an UnsafeCell<usize>, and Channel a Mutex next to an UnsafeCell<LinearFifo> and a Cell<bool>. Every access to an UnsafeCell was an unsafe dereference whose reason was "the mutex is held", and three unsafe impl Send/Sync repeated it for the types. Guarded<T> is that pair as one type: the same bun_threading::Mutex, the value behind its lock guard, and Condition::wait_guarded waits on the guard's own mutex.

The lock is taken on entry, given up and retaken inside the wait, and released on return, as before, and the signals are still sent while it is held.

Channel::read_item was the only reader. It went through read_all and read_items with a [MaybeUninit<T>; 1] cast to &mut [T; 1]. It takes the Option<T> of LinearFifo::read_item instead, which is None exactly when the fifo is empty, so the separate length test, the two helpers and the debug_assert on the count are gone.

Send and Sync are derived. For Channel<T, B> they ask for B: Send as well as T: Send; the one user has a StaticBuffer<u32, 256>.

The fields of Semaphore are laid out in another order. In the release assembly post differs in field offsets. wait goes from 54 to 61 instructions with the same branches, compares and calls: one lea before its wait loop, because cond is not at offset 0, and one more callee-saved register to save and restore.

Channel<u32, StaticBuffer<u32, 256>> grows from 1064 to 1072 bytes in Linux and macOS release builds. No field is added: State and Guarded are each padded to a multiple of 8, where the flat struct was padded once. The bytes that init_static zeroes are no longer one run, so it has one store more. The one user makes one channel per call of prefetch_remote_images, a cold path. In a scratch crate write_items differed in field offsets only, and read_item made the same calls in the same order.

The two [bun_threading] entries of mordant-baseline.toml counted the removed impls. They are deleted, and the section with them.

2. threading: Task::from_node is a cast, and Batch::pop reads its own len

Task::from_node was an unsafe fn around from_field_ptr!(Task, node, ..). node is the first field of the repr(C) Task, which node_of already asserts at compile time for the opposite direction, so the subtraction is by zero. It is a safe pointer cast with the same assertion, and its three callers lose their blocks. Thread::run and drain_idle_events still dereference the result in unsafe. Batch::pop only stores it in self.head, and the next pop dereferences it.

Batch::pop(&mut self) viewed self.len as an AtomicUsize to load it. &mut self is exclusive, so it is a plain read.

The release assembly of bun_threading is the same before and after.

3. threading: IntrusiveWorkTask and OwnedTask are safe traits

Both were unsafe traits without a promise of their own.

IntrusiveWorkTask said its contract is inherited from its supertrait IntrusiveField<Task>, which stays unsafe and which intrusive_field! implements with offset_of!. The trait only adds two provided methods that forward to the supertrait. OwnedTask::__callback passes what from_task_ptr returns to Box::from_raw, so a type must not be able to replace that method in safe code: there is one blanket impl for every IntrusiveField<Task> instead of an impl per type, and both arms of intrusive_work_task! expand to intrusive_field! alone.

OwnedTask said that run executes on a worker thread, which is the Send bound. schedule_owned gives the box away and relies on nothing else that an implementor writes: a replaced __callback can only leak the box unless it has unsafe of its own.

The unsafe impl Send in owned_task! stays. No code changes: the same methods are called on the same types.

4. alloc: secure_zero takes &mut [u8]

secure_zero(p: *mut u8, len: usize) was an unsafe fn, and three of its four callers took apart bytes they held safely to call it: a &mut [u8] (Data::zdeinit), a &mut Box<[u8]> (zero_sensitive) and a Box<[T]> (free_sensitive). It takes the slice and is safe. <[u8]>::fill is specialised to write_bytes, in debug builds too, so it is still one memset, followed by the same black_box and fence.

Data::zdeinit passes the slice it has, and zero_sensitive its box, which coerces. free_sensitive was generic over T: Copy and cast to bytes; its one caller has a Box<[u8]>, so it takes that. free_sensitive_cstr has only a C string, and builds the slice inside the unsafe block it already had.

Without its type parameter free_sensitive is compiled once, in bun_alloc (20 instructions in release mode), and Sensitive::drop in bun_runtime calls it where it held a copy (21 to 6 instructions). The release assembly of bun_sql and bun_s3_signing is the same before and after.

5. collections: drop VecExt::from_bump_slice and VecExt::writable_slice

The two unsafe fns had three callers between them, all in the bundler, and Vec serves each of them.

The sqlite loader in ParseTask filled two arena slices with defaults, overwrote them, and had from_bump_slice copy them into new Vecs. It builds the Vecs from the values: init_one for the property and from_arena_slice for the two arguments, the form require_embedded_asset above uses for its one argument. The Expr::init calls keep their order. Two arena allocations, their default values and the drop of the default property are gone.

generate_symbol_import_and_use took an uninitialised tail from writable_slice and assigned to it in a zip loop. extend over a mapped slice iterator is TrustedLen: one reserve, raw writes and one store of the length, which comes after the loop instead of before it. The closure is move so that it holds the index by value even where extend is not inlined. Dependency.source_index takes source_index_to_import_from as it is: crate::Index is bun_ast::Index, so Index::init(x.get()) was an identity. The parameter was impl Into<Index>, and every caller passes an Index, so it is Index. In release mode the function goes from 257 to 269 instructions, with the same 29 branches, 3 compares more and one call fewer: the loops are vectorised and unrolled as before with other induction variables, and the panic for a slice index out of range is gone.

Eleven comments named the two methods: six in vec_ext.rs and one each in ast_alloc.rs, bun_core/lib.rs, computeCrossChunkDependencies.rs, renameSymbolsInChunk.rs and p.rs. The last two were already wrong about the code below them.

6. sema: the stand-ins that ignore their arguments are safe extern "C" fns

Eleven of the #[no_mangle] stand-ins for C and C++ symbols in src/sema/standalone (ten in native_libraries.rs, one in native.rs) were unsafe extern "C" fn although every parameter is unused: four return a constant and seven panic. No argument can make them misbehave, so they are safe, like Bun__AOT__addressOfOffsetInCode and the other stand-ins next to them that take no pointer.

Nothing names them in Rust. The crates that import them declare the symbols themselves, so no caller changes, and neither does the compiled code.

7. alloc, opaque: remove dead code that carried unsafe

MaxHeapAllocator: init sets its private ptr to None and no method allocates, so the dealloc in Drop never ran and the unsafe impl Send and Sync guarded nothing. Its only users were three locals and a per-chunk scope() guard in write_output_files_to_disk, which their own comments called placeholders. MAX_ALIGN_T, with its Windows and FreeBSD aarch64 arms, had no other use. That function loses three calls to the Drop impl and one store of len = 0 per chunk.

unsafe impl Send/Sync for BSSList: the list is only reached as a *mut out of the AtomicPtr static of bss_singleton!, which asks for neither.

unsafe impl Send for Zone: OnceLock<&'static Zone> needs Zone: Sync, which stays.

unsafe trait FfiLayout and its unsafe impl in assert_ffi_layout!: the trait was never a bound and its two constants were never read. The const assertions of the macro stay. The [bun_opaque] entry of mordant-baseline.toml counted the two constants and goes with them.

opaque_deref_mut_nn had one caller, opaque_deref_mut, and is merged into it. Its debug_assert for null went: the pointer comes out of a NonNull.

Apart from MaxHeapAllocator::drop, the release assembly of bun_alloc and bun_core is the same before and after.

8. alloc: WTFStringImplStruct::m_ref_count is an AtomicU32

The C++ field is std::atomic<uint32_t> m_refCount (StringImpl.h:162). The Rust mirror declared it Cell<u32> and had a private accessor that turned the cell's address into an &AtomicU32 with AtomicU32::from_ptr for is_static, ref and deref. The field has the atomic type itself, which has the size and alignment of u32, and the accessor is gone. The struct stays !Freeze, and !Send and !Sync through its other fields. Its doc comment said that ref and deref let C++ write the count; they do it in Rust. One line says who writes the two interior-mutable fields.

ref_count() read the cell without an atomic. It does a relaxed load, as StringImpl::refCount() does (StringImpl.h:429), so it does not race with another thread's ref or deref. It has four callers: three debug_asserts and Any::memory_cost. The orderings of the other three are unchanged.

The release assembly of bun_alloc is the same. In bun_core one function differs, String::thread_isolated_copy, which touches no count: it tests the two tags in the other order and uses one add more to address the 16 bytes it copies. The crates that use bun_core::String emit the same load, test and lock add for a ref, but the inliner chooses differently around them. In bun_runtime, String::create_if_different (52 instructions) was called at 16 places and had String::clone inlined. It is inlined at those places and calls String::clone (18 instructions). At 15 other places in bun_runtime, and at one each in bun_jsc and bun_bundler, String::clone is called where it was inlined.

9. alloc: Mutex::lock returns a guard that borrows the mutex

bun_alloc::Mutex::lock transmuted the std::sync::MutexGuard<'_, ()> to 'static and wrapped it in its own MutexGuard, so that &mut self methods could be called while the guard was alive. Only one place needed that: BSSMapInner::get calls self.at_index(..) under the lock. get_or_put, mark_not_found, put and remove only touch sibling fields, and the four callers that have a *mut Self dereference it for every access.

lock returns std::sync::MutexGuard<'_, ()>. The body of at_index moves, with its unsafe block, into a private slot_at that takes the two fields it reads, and at_index and get call that. In get the compiler now checks that nothing borrows the mutex mutably while it is locked.

Four comments said that the guard stores a raw pointer. It held the std guard, which is a reference. Those sentences are deleted. What they concluded was not true either, and is unchanged: (*this).do_append(..) and (*this).append_overflow_uninit() still form a &mut Self that spans mutex while the guard holds &mutex; the borrow checker does not follow borrows through a raw pointer.

The locks are taken and released at the same places. The release assembly of bun_alloc is the same. In bun_resolver, where the map is instantiated, an out-of-line slot_at (28 instructions) stands where the out-of-line at_index of the DirInfo map (26) stood.

10. alloc: use the reference MaybeUninit::write returns, and index a checked slot

OverflowListBlock::append and BSSMapInner::put wrote a slot with MaybeUninit::write, dropped the &mut T it returns, and indexed the slot again for unsafe { assume_init_mut() }. They keep the returned reference. In append it borrows items while the sibling used is stored, in the same order as before.

BSSListOverflowBlock::append_uninit returns Err when index >= BSS_LIST_CHUNK_SIZE and then did as_mut_ptr().add(index) in unsafe. &raw mut self.data[index] is the same address; the array has BSS_LIST_CHUNK_SIZE elements, so its bounds check repeats the test above it.

The release assembly of bun_alloc is the same before and after. In bun_resolver, which instantiates all three, OverflowList::append spells one test > 2047 instead of >= 2048, and the rest is the same.

11. alloc: Zone::init takes &'static CStr

Both cfg arms of heap_breakdown::Zone::init were unsafe fn(name: *const c_char) whose contract was "NUL-terminated and valid for the whole process". That is &'static CStr, so the function takes one and is safe. The macOS arm keeps its unsafe block for malloc_set_zone_name and &*zone.

Its one caller, get_zone!, built the pointer from concat!($name, "\0") in an unsafe block. It passes the literal on, and the two users of c_thunks_for_zone! write c"brotli" and c"zlib".

Zones exist only in macOS debug builds without ASAN (ENABLED). There init receives a pointer and a length instead of a pointer, once per zone. Elsewhere the call is dead code: the release assembly of bun_alloc, bun_zlib and bun_brotli on Linux is the same before and after. The macOS arm passes cargo check --target aarch64-apple-darwin.

12. threading: a worker's Thread is only ever borrowed shared

Thread::run took &raw mut self_ and dereferenced it in unsafe to call pop and, twice, drain_idle_events, and ThreadPool::register stored (*thread).next in unsafe. drain_idle_events and every method of Queue and Buffer already take &self. pop took &mut self only to store self.target, and that &mut was not exclusive: while a worker is in pop, other workers read its next, run_queue and run_buffer through the pool's list.

next and target are Cell<*mut Thread>, which keeps them at offsets 0 and 8. next is set before the compare-exchange that publishes the thread and only read afterwards; target is used by its own worker alone. Each field says so. pop takes &self, run calls the methods on its local, and ThreadRegistration holds &'a Thread.

register had one caller, ThreadRegistration::new, and is written into it, so no safe fn leaves the address of a &Thread in the pool's list. new stays unsafe: a leaked guard would leave CURRENT and that list pointing at a dead stack frame, and pool has to count the calling thread in spawned, which unregister subtracts from. unregister takes Option<&Thread> instead of *mut Thread, which has the same ABI: drop passes Some(self.thread), warm and notify_slow pass None, and the step through NonNull and BackRef is gone.

The steal loop reads and writes the same fields in the same order with the same orderings: the release assembly of Thread::run, into which pop is inlined, is the same before and after. One function of bun_threading differs: ThreadRegistration::drop loses the null test of unregister's maybe_thread (68 to 64 instructions).

13. threading: Bun__lock takes &ReleaseImpl

Bun__lock was unsafe extern "C" fn(ptr: *mut ReleaseImpl) around (*ptr).lock(). Only C calls it, at six places in packages/bun-usockets/src:

  • fault_inject.c:44, :54, :63 and :73 pass &us_fault_lock, a static zig_mutex_t.
  • loop.c:376 and :400 pass &loop->data.mutex, a field of the us_loop_t that us_create_loop gets from us_xcalloc.

Both are non-null and zero-initialised, which is the unlocked state of the futex, os_unfair_lock and SRWLOCK implementations. zig_mutex_t is uint32_t, os_unfair_lock or void *, which have the alignment of the Rust types. Every caller goes on to use the data that the mutex guards, so the object is live for the whole call. All three implementations are interior-mutable, so a shared reference lets other threads lock at the same time.

Bun__unlock keeps its raw pointer, for the reason Mutex::unlock_raw gives.

Bun__lock compiles to the same instructions. It now equals Mutex::lock down to the parameter attributes, so in the Linux release build LLVM emits Mutex::lock as an alias of it. The Windows and macOS implementations pass cargo check for their targets.

14. ptr: DebugData::deinit takes &self

DebugData is the canary that RefCount and ThreadSafeRefCount carry in builds with debug_assertions. Its deinit took &mut self to clear magic: u32. RefCount::deref, ThreadSafeRefCount::deref and ThreadSafeRefCount::release have a & to the count in scope, so each of them projected the field from the raw pointer a second time, in unsafe, to get a &mut next to that &.

magic is an AtomicU32 that is read and written relaxed, deinit takes &self, and the three callers write count.debug.deinit().

Release builds contain none of this: the release assembly of bun_ptr is the same before and after. In debug builds the plain load and store of magic become relaxed atomic ones.

15. sql: PostgresSQLConnection::drop zeroes options_buf with secure_zero

drop cleared the buffer that holds the connection options, the password among them, with its own loop of one write_volatile per byte in unsafe. bun_alloc::secure_zero takes the &mut [u8] and is safe, and bun_sql_jsc already depends on bun_alloc.

The compiled code changes: the byte loop becomes one memset, which a black_box on the pointer and a compiler fence keep rustc's LLVM backend from removing. write_volatile is guaranteed by the language and black_box is documented as best effort; this is the form secure_zero's doc comment argues for, and the other Rust code that zeroes a secret it owns uses it (Data::zdeinit, zero_sensitive, free_sensitive, free_sensitive_cstr).

16. bundler: zig__ModuleInfoDeserialized__deinit takes the Box that it drops

The exported function took *mut ModuleInfoDeserialized. It turned the argument into a NonNull with unwrap_unchecked, turned that back into a raw pointer, and passed it to ModuleInfoDeserialized::deinit, an unsafe fn with no other caller whose body was drop(heap::take(this)).

The parameter is now Box<ModuleInfoDeserialized> and the body is drop(info). That is what C++ passes: ResolvedSource.module_info is an Option<Box<ModuleInfoDeserialized>>, and C++ gives back the pointer that it found in that field. A Box of a sized type is passed as that pointer, and heap::take is Box::from_raw, so the same box is dropped. As a Box the parameter is noalias, nonnull and aligned for LLVM. No unsafe is left in the function. deinit, the NonNull import and use bun_core; are gone.

A Box is never null and is owned by the callee. The four C++ call sites hold to both. Bun__analyzeTranspiledModule (BunAnalyzeTranspiledModule.cpp) has returned early if m_moduleInfo is null, and releaseModuleInfo (ZigGlobalObject.cpp) gets a provider only if it is set; both set the field to null after the call. ~SourceProvider (ZigSourceProvider.cpp) and ~ErrorableResolvedSource (headers-handwritten.h) test the pointer in an if, and the object that held it is gone afterwards. m_moduleInfo gets its value only from std::exchange(resolvedSource.module_info, nullptr), so the two objects never hold the same pointer.

17. transpiler: print_with_source_map takes Option<&mut ModuleInfo>

The two callers that collect a module record own it in a local Option<Box<ModuleInfo>>. They turned as_deref_mut() into an Option<*mut ModuleInfo>, which went through four functions of Transpiler, all safe, one of them public, until print_ast_esm_ascii turned it back into the Option<&mut ModuleInfo> that js_printer::Options holds.

The four functions now take Option<&mut ModuleInfo> and the two callers pass module_info.as_deref_mut(). They touch the box again only after the call has returned. The third caller, in AsyncModule, passes None as before.

The argument is one pointer with null for None, where it was a tag and a pointer.

18. bundler: five unsafe blocks that plain borrows replace

StaticRouteVisitor held &'a LinkerContext<'a>. LinkerContext is invariant in its lifetime, so no borrow of the &mut LinkerContext<'a> that generate_chunks_in_parallel gets has that type, and the borrow was detached. The struct now has two lifetimes, &'a LinkerContext<'ctx>, and holds &*c. Up to the visitor's last use c is only used shared; write_output_files_to_disk(c, ..) is in the other arm of the if.

is_done called (*this).graph.drain_deferred_tasks(&mut *this): a &mut Graph and a &mut BundleV2 that contains it, both live. drain_deferred_tasks is now a method of BundleV2 that names self.graph.*. It stays in Graph.rs, next to the counters it moves.

scan_css_imports was a safe function that took *const [CssCol] and dereferenced it. It takes &[CssCol]. finish_from_bake_dev_server has a slice and passes it. scan_imports_and_exports has column pointers and uses col_ref!, as it does for the arguments next to this one.

find_imported_files_in_css_order cast a slice to *const [LayerName] and dereferenced it, as a cast "between shadow types". crate::bun_css::LayerName re-exports ::bun_css::css_parser::LayerName, so there is one type and the match yields &[LayerName]. For the same reason the .cast::<Vec<LayerName>>() on each of the two pointers that the function hands to Layers::borrow cast to the type it already had. Both are gone, with the comments there, on Layers::borrow and in prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs that spoke of two types. Layers::borrow, a safe function whose result inner() dereferences, took a NonNull for those casts. It takes &Vec<LayerName>, and BackRef::new stores the same pointer.

run_resolver kept the slot from get_or_put as *mut u32 in both arms. With self.graph.build_graphs[target] written out, which is the body of path_to_source_index_map, the arm for an existing entry reads *entry.value_ptr next to self.graph.ast. The other arm calls enqueue_parse_task(&mut self) before it fills the slot and keeps the pointer.

The operations and their order stay the same at all five sites.

19. bundler: BundleThread::enqueue takes &self; generation is a local of the thread

generation was a field that only thread_main read and wrote, through the raw instance pointer. It was also the only field written after the thread has set ready_event, and so the reason why no thread could hold a &BundleThread.

It is now a local of thread_main. After waker is written, every thread only reads the fields or uses the atomics in ready_event and queue, so thread_main takes one &*instance there, in place of a dereference each for ready_event.set(), queue.pop(), waker.wait() and, on Windows, waker.uv_loop().

enqueue was an unsafe fn(*mut Self, *mut C) that rebuilt a NonNull with new_unchecked. Its one caller has a NonNull<C> and passed .as_ptr(). It is now unsafe fn enqueue(&self, NonNull<C>). The types say that the instance is live and that the task is not null, and the body has no unsafe block: UnboundedQueue::push and Waker::wake are safe &self functions on every platform. It stays unsafe for the one obligation that no type carries: completion must be a live task node that stays valid until the bundle thread has run or freed it, because thread_main dereferences what it pops. The caller dereferences the singleton pointer and calls enqueue in one block, where it called the old function.

The counter moves from the heap allocation to the thread's stack or a register. The calls and their order stay the same.

20. bundler: enqueue_entry_points_dev_server borrows the transpiler where it uses it

The loop picked the client or the server transpiler at its top and kept it as *mut Transpiler, because a borrow would have held self across the plugin dispatch that follows. The pointer was dereferenced three times further down: for resolve_entry_point, and twice in its error arm for log.

The transpiler is now picked after the plugin dispatch, right before resolve_entry_point, as a &mut. What that call returns borrows only abs_path and dot_slash, so self is free again in both arms. The error arm first copies transpiler.log and uses the copy; the dereference for reset() stays.

The pick now runs only for entry points that no plugin matched. It has no side effect here: the one caller is the dev server, which sets linker.dev_server and client_transpiler before, so transpiler_for_target only selects a pointer.

21. bundler: process_html_import_files borrows four fields of the parse graph

The function went through the raw parse_graph pointer five times, four of them in every iteration. One of the five, (*parse_graph).path_to_source_index_map(..), made a &mut Graph over the whole graph only to call get(&self) on one map, while the source map workers that link has just scheduled read the same graph. A sixth block made a &mut Symbol with symbol_mut to set link, which is a Cell.

One block now borrows the four fields that are used: html_imports.html_source_indices mutably, and html_imports.server_source_indices, input_files and build_graphs shared. The workers hold &Graph and &BundleV2 at that time, and of the graph they read only input_files and pool. The symbol comes from LinkerGraph::symbol, which is symbols.get_const(..).expect(..). get_const has the same two guards as get and no bounds check either. symbol was compiled only with debug_assertions, because its one user was, and loses that cfg.

The loop iterates over server_source_indices instead of indexing it, which drops one bounds check per iteration, and the source column and the browser map are looked up once instead of per iteration.

22. transpiler: Linker takes what it reads as parameters instead of pointing into its Transpiler

Transpiler holds its Linker by value. The Linker held three raw pointers back into the same Transpiler: options, resolve_queue and resolve_results. They were null after Transpiler::init, were set by configure_linker*, and had to be set again by wire_after_move after each move. Three accessors dereferenced them.

resolve_queue and resolve_results served only enqueue_resolve_result, which has one caller, Transpiler::enqueue_entry_points. It is now an associated function that gets &mut self.resolve_results and &mut self.resolve_queue. options served only two scalar reads at the top of link, which now takes options: &BundleOptions<'_>. Its two callers in Transpiler pass &self.options. The two callers outside the crate, in AsyncModule and jsc_hooks, pass &(*jsc_vm).transpiler.options in the unsafe block they already have; that is the field the pointer pointed to, because the VM calls configure_linker* on the transpiler in place.

Linker is left with log, and Linker::init takes only that. The three accessors and reseat_self_refs are gone.

link gets the address in an argument register instead of loading it from self, Transpiler is 24 bytes smaller, and the debug assertions that the pointers are not null are gone with the pointers.

23. transpiler: Transpiler::init builds its value with a struct literal

init made a MaybeUninit<Transpiler> on its stack and passed it to init_in_place, which wrote the twelve fields with addr_of_mut!(..).write(..). init then returned Ok(slot.assume_init()). init_in_place was meant for callers that own the final storage, but it is pub(crate) and init was its only caller: the VM, in another crate, calls init and writes the result into its field.

init now has the body of init_in_place and ends in Ok(Transpiler { .. }), with the fields in the same order, so the calls that compute them run in the same order. All the fallible work still comes first.

No large value is moved more often than before. The options went from a local into the slot and now go from the same local into the literal. The resolver went from the result of Resolver::init1 into the slot and now goes into the literal. The whole struct went from the slot into the Ok and now goes from the literal into the Ok.

The message of the panic for a null log names init instead of init_in_place.

24. bundler: three worker contexts that only read the linker hold &LinkerContext

find_all_imported_parts_in_js_order and run_walks put ParentRef::from_ref_mut(this) in the context they hand to each_ptr, and each task turned it back with unsafe { &*ctx.c.as_mut_ptr() }. The first of the two built a whole GenerateChunkCtx and used only its c. Step 5 of scan_imports_and_exports wrapped a *mut LinkerContext in a struct with its own unsafe impl Sync, and do_step5 began with &*this.

The three contexts now hold &LinkerContext. each and each_ptr ask for Ctx: Sync, which &LinkerContext has through the existing unsafe impl Sync for LinkerContext. find_all_imported_parts_in_js_order and run_walks took &mut LinkerContext for from_ref_mut, and find_safe_walks took it to call run_walks. All three take &LinkerContext, and do_step5 takes &self. It stays an unsafe fn: the caller must give each concurrent call its own rows.

While the pool runs, the calling thread is blocked in each / each_ptr and holds only shared borrows of the linker: the context and worker_pool(). The tasks hold &LinkerContext, as before, and write the rows and the one column they own through the raw pointers of split_raw(&self), which come from the buffer pointer stored in the list and not from the reference.

unsafe impl Send for PrepareCssAstTask is removed: no bound asks for it. The tasks stay in a local Vec and reach the pool as *mut Task.

The change is in the types only, with two exceptions. find_all_imported_parts_in_js_order no longer forms the two unused pointers into chunks. And the attributes of the changed parameters follow their types: the three that were &mut LinkerContext lose noalias and dereferenceable, which a & to a type with atomics in it does not get, and do_step5's, which was a raw pointer, gains nonnull and align.

25. bundler: LinkerContext::load and link take the fields they use, not *mut BundleV2

Both were unsafe fn(&mut self, bundle: *mut BundleV2, ..), because self.linker.link(self, ..) does not borrow-check. All five callers hold a &mut BundleV2 or the Box, and each made a raw pointer from it in an unsafe block to project linker, graph.entry_points and graph.server_component_boundaries. Inside there were nine more blocks: five project or read a field of *bundle that is disjoint from linker (graph, dynamic_import_entry_points, transpiler, has_any_top_level_await_modules, unique_key), two read the graph through self.parse_graph, one builds the resolver's ParentRef through a pointer cast, and one is link's call of load.

load now takes &mut Graph, &Transpiler and the &mut map of dynamic import entry points, which the callers borrow as disjoint fields next to &mut self.linker. It reads the entry points, the boundaries, the sources and the original names from the graph. The pointer cast that "erased" the resolver's lifetime is gone: the lifetime was 'a already. link takes the bool and the u64 it read from the bundle and no longer calls load. The new BundleV2::link calls both, and four callers call that. The dev server only loads, and calls load as before.

load stays an unsafe fn, with a smaller contract. That its arguments are valid and disjoint from self is now checked by the compiler. What is left is that self keeps the raw parse_graph pointer and a ParentRef to the transpiler's resolver after those borrows have ended, and that safe accessors such as parse_graph() and resolver() dereference them later. So both arguments must be those of the BundleV2 that holds self. BundleV2::link and the dev server call load in one unsafe block each. link is a safe function. It relies on load having run, like its callees parse_graph() and compute_chunks, which are safe functions too.

load is separate so that no &mut Graph is live while the pool works on this bundle. It runs after parsing is over and before any task of the link step is scheduled, and its borrows end when it returns. BundleV2::link's own &mut self does span the link step, and the workers' pointers derive from it. generate_from_cli and generate_from_bake_production_cli held only the Box and a raw pointer there. LinkerContext::link, which schedules the source map tasks and step 5, holds &mut LinkerContext as before, and two fewer borrows into the graph: the entry points and the boundaries were parameters of it.

load is called from BundleV2::link instead of from LinkerContext::link, and the two scalars are read before LinkerContext::link is called instead of during it. Nothing writes them while linking. The stores in load keep their order.

26. bundler: the back-pointers of the tasks name the bundle's lifetime

ParseTask<'a> and ServerComponentParseTask<'a> carry the bundle's 'a, but their ctx was a ParentRef<BundleV2<'static>, Mut>. Nine places fill it. The six in ParseTask.rs and bundle_v2.rs have the bundle as BundleV2<'a>, so each wrote unsafe { ParentRef::from_raw_mut(p.cast::<BundleV2<'static>>()) }. In the five in bundle_v2.rs, p is ptr::from_mut of the bundle. The sixth is ParseTask::init, a safe function that took *mut BundleV2<'a> and read through it; its five callers all pass self. The three places in aot (plugins.rs, native_plugins.rs and components.rs) fill ctx from a BundleV2<'static> carrier and do not change. SourceMapDataTask did the same as the six with LinkerContext<'static>.

ctx is now ParentRef<BundleV2<'a>, Mut>, and those six places use the safe ParentRef::from_ref_mut(self). init takes &mut BundleV2<'a>. SourceMapDataTask and SourceMapData get the linker's 'a, and their ctx is ParentRef::new(&*self). ParseTask<'a> is now invariant in 'a. Only the runtime's task relied on shortening 'static, so RuntimeSource and the functions that make it are generic over 'a.

The worker side does not change. The thread pool callbacks recover the task from its intrusive field as ParseTask<'static>, and so on, as before, so Result.ctx and the code in aot keep BundleV2<'static>.

The pointers have the same value and provenance as before: ptr::from_mut(self) and ptr::from_ref(self) reborrowed self too. In init the reborrow is now the parameter. It lasts for that call, on the bundle thread, inside a caller that holds &mut BundleV2 anyway. The change is in the types only, apart from the noalias and dereferenceable attributes that init's parameter gets as a &mut.

27. threading: ThreadPool::each_ptr hands each task a &mut V

each_ptr takes values: &mut [V], makes one task per index, and blocks until all of them are done. It passed each task a *mut V. All six callbacks, which are all in the bundler, dereferenced it with the reason "each_ptr hands each task a distinct pointer". Five began with unsafe { &mut *ptr }. The sixth, run_nested_rename_task, read two fields at its start and wrote one at its end. That the pointers are distinct and live is something only the pool can know.

The callback is now Fn(&Ctx, &mut V, usize). each_impl has the exclusive borrow of the slice, does not use it while the tasks run, and gives each index to one task, so the block that computed &raw mut (*values)[i] makes &mut (*values)[i] instead. The bound is higher-ranked, so a callback cannot keep the reference, and V: Send was required already. EachCall::call is a safe function now. Its ByValue impl, which serves each and each_while, copies out of the reference. Apart from step 5 of the linker, which passes its own snapshot of the reachable files, every caller of those two passes a fresh vec[(); n].

No &mut lives longer than before in the five callbacks that made one on entry. generate_chunk reads the other chunks through ctx.chunks while each task holds the &mut to its own, as it did before.

The address and the bounds check are the same. What changes are the attributes of the callbacks' parameter: as a &mut V it is noalias and dereferenceable. Four of the six callbacks pass it on, and their callees had these attributes on the same pointer already: post_process_js_chunk, post_process_css_chunk and post_process_html_chunk under generate_chunk, generate_js_renamer_ under generate_js_renamer, and find_imported_parts_in_js_order and EntryWalk::run under the two closures. For finish_js_renamer and run_nested_rename_task they are new; neither uses another way to reach its value.

The doc of GenerateChunkCtx said that each_ptr asks for Ctx: Sync + Copy. It asks for Sync.

How did you verify your code works?

  • Static checks on the final commits: cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --workspace (0 warnings), the source lints and cargo check --workspace --release on Linux, and cargo check --workspace --release for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc, aarch64-apple-darwin and x86_64-unknown-freebsd, because four changes touch code that Linux does not compile.
  • Assembly: the comparison above.
  • After the assembly comparison and the tests had run, three more commits went into Remove 131 unsafe blocks from Blob, Bun.write, FileSink, fetch, Response and the S3 client #47895, which is under these, and a rebase brought in one more commit of main (install: send configured credentials to tarball URLs that the project names #47900). Together they touch 17 files, none of which this PR touches, and they left all 27 patches here as they were. The static checks ran after that.
  • 30 test files on the final code, on a debug build with ASAN, all started at once and each stopped after 50 seconds: 22 files of test/bundler (plugins, HTML, CSS, loaders, minify, naming, chunks, defer(), metafile, cjs, browser, bytecode, the resolver's cache, the transpiler) and 8 for the other changes (Bun.password, fs.promises, two Postgres files that bring their own servers, glob, zlib, S3 and bun -e).
    • 26 files pass completely, 1,419 tests. None fails.
    • 4 files were stopped at 50 seconds: transpiler.test.js, esbuild/css.test.ts, bundler_bytecode_portable.test.ts and glob/scan.test.ts.
    • With fewer files at once, transpiler.test.js passes completely (258 tests).
    • Run by name, the 31 tests of esbuild/css.test.ts with Layer in their names pass, and the 18 with AtImport. So do 11 of the 22 tests of bundler_bytecode_portable.test.ts; the others did not end in 50 seconds.
  • 30 test files on an earlier base, some of them the same, run the same way: 22 files of test/bundler (the API, plugins, HTML, CSS, loaders, minify, naming, splitting, compile, metafile), the 3 files of test/bundler/resolver, 3 of test/bake/dev and 2 of test/js/bun/md.
    • 21 files pass completely, 559 tests.
    • 3 files need packages that I did not have, and fail in the same tests on a debug build without these commits: bundler_edgecase (aws-cdk-lib), bake/dev/css (16 tests) and bake/dev/html (9 tests, both happy-dom).
    • 6 files were stopped at 50 seconds: bake/dev/bundle, bun-build-api, bundler_cjs2esm, bundler_compile, bundler_splitting and md-edge-cases. In bake/dev/bundle 16 tests had failed by then, all for happy-dom. In the other five no test had failed by then.
  • 22 scenarios by hand on a debug build of an earlier form of the 12 bundler and transpiler commits, and on a debug build of their base. They were bun build with splitting, minify, the source map modes, cjs output, CSS layers, server HTML imports, HTML entry points, top-level await, macros, --compile, bytecode and --no-bundle, running the outputs, Bun.build in sequence, in parallel, with plugins and defer(), and with failing builds, and the dev server with an edit and a rebuild. Every bundle had the same digest on both builds, and ASAN reported nothing.

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`Semaphore` had a `Mutex` next to an `UnsafeCell<usize>`, and `Channel` a
`Mutex` next to an `UnsafeCell<LinearFifo>` and a `Cell<bool>`. Every access
to an `UnsafeCell` was an `unsafe` dereference whose reason was "the mutex
is held", and three `unsafe impl Send`/`Sync` repeated it for the types.
`Guarded<T>` is that pair as one type: the same `bun_threading::Mutex`, the
value behind its lock guard, and `Condition::wait_guarded` waits on the
guard's own mutex.

The lock is taken on entry, given up and retaken inside the wait, and
released on return, as before, and the signals are still sent while it is
held.

`Channel::read_item` was the only reader. It went through `read_all` and
`read_items` with a `[MaybeUninit<T>; 1]` cast to `&mut [T; 1]`. It takes the
`Option<T>` of `LinearFifo::read_item` instead, which is `None` exactly when
the fifo is empty, so the separate length test, the two helpers and the
`debug_assert` on the count are gone.

`Send` and `Sync` are derived. For `Channel<T, B>` they ask for `B: Send` as
well as `T: Send`; the one user has a `StaticBuffer<u32, 256>`.

The fields of `Semaphore` are laid out in another order. In the release
assembly `post` differs in field offsets. `wait` goes from 54 to 61
instructions with the same branches, compares and calls: one `lea` before its
wait loop, because `cond` is not at offset 0, and one more callee-saved register
to save and restore.

`Channel<u32, StaticBuffer<u32, 256>>` grows from 1064 to 1072 bytes in Linux
and macOS release builds. No field is added: `State` and `Guarded` are each
padded to a multiple of 8, where the flat struct was padded once. The bytes that
`init_static` zeroes are no longer one run, so it has one store more. The one
user makes one channel per call of `prefetch_remote_images`, a cold path. In a
scratch crate `write_items` differed in field offsets only, and `read_item` made
the same calls in the same order.

The two `[bun_threading]` entries of `mordant-baseline.toml` counted the removed
impls. They are deleted, and the section with them.
…n `len`

`Task::from_node` was an `unsafe fn` around `from_field_ptr!(Task, node, ..)`.
`node` is the first field of the `repr(C)` `Task`, which `node_of` already
asserts at compile time for the opposite direction, so the subtraction is by
zero. It is a safe pointer cast with the same assertion, and its three
callers lose their blocks. `Thread::run` and `drain_idle_events` still
dereference the result in `unsafe`. `Batch::pop` only stores it in `self.head`,
and the next `pop` dereferences it.

`Batch::pop(&mut self)` viewed `self.len` as an `AtomicUsize` to load it.
`&mut self` is exclusive, so it is a plain read.

The release assembly of `bun_threading` is the same before and after.
Both were `unsafe trait`s without a promise of their own.

`IntrusiveWorkTask` said its contract is inherited from its supertrait
`IntrusiveField<Task>`, which stays `unsafe` and which `intrusive_field!`
implements with `offset_of!`. The trait only adds two provided methods that
forward to the supertrait. `OwnedTask::__callback` passes what
`from_task_ptr` returns to `Box::from_raw`, so a type must not be able to
replace that method in safe code: there is one blanket impl for every
`IntrusiveField<Task>` instead of an impl per type, and both arms of
`intrusive_work_task!` expand to `intrusive_field!` alone.

`OwnedTask` said that `run` executes on a worker thread, which is the `Send`
bound. `schedule_owned` gives the box away and relies on nothing else that an
implementor writes: a replaced `__callback` can only leak the box unless it
has `unsafe` of its own.

The `unsafe impl Send` in `owned_task!` stays. No code changes: the same
methods are called on the same types.
`secure_zero(p: *mut u8, len: usize)` was an `unsafe fn`, and three of its four
callers took apart bytes they held safely to call it: a `&mut [u8]`
(`Data::zdeinit`), a `&mut Box<[u8]>` (`zero_sensitive`) and a `Box<[T]>`
(`free_sensitive`). It takes the slice and is safe. `<[u8]>::fill` is
specialised to `write_bytes`, in debug builds too, so it is still one `memset`,
followed by the same `black_box` and fence.

`Data::zdeinit` passes the slice it has, and `zero_sensitive` its box, which
coerces. `free_sensitive` was generic over `T: Copy` and cast to bytes; its one
caller has a `Box<[u8]>`, so it takes that. `free_sensitive_cstr`
has only a C string, and builds the slice inside the `unsafe` block it already
had.

Without its type parameter `free_sensitive` is compiled once, in `bun_alloc`
(20 instructions in release mode), and `Sensitive::drop` in `bun_runtime` calls
it where it held a copy (21 to 6 instructions). The release assembly of
`bun_sql` and `bun_s3_signing` is the same before and after.
The two `unsafe fn`s had three callers between them, all in the bundler, and
`Vec` serves each of them.

The sqlite loader in `ParseTask` filled two arena slices with defaults,
overwrote them, and had `from_bump_slice` copy them into new `Vec`s. It
builds the `Vec`s from the values: `init_one` for the property and
`from_arena_slice` for the two arguments, the form `require_embedded_asset`
above uses for its one argument.
The `Expr::init` calls keep their order. Two arena allocations, their default
values and the drop of the default property are gone.

`generate_symbol_import_and_use` took an uninitialised tail from
`writable_slice` and assigned to it in a zip loop. `extend` over a mapped
slice iterator is `TrustedLen`: one reserve, raw writes and one store of the
length, which comes after the loop instead of before it. The closure is `move`
so that it holds the index by value even where `extend` is not inlined.
`Dependency.source_index` takes `source_index_to_import_from` as it is:
`crate::Index` is `bun_ast::Index`, so `Index::init(x.get())` was an identity.
The parameter was `impl Into<Index>`, and every caller passes an `Index`, so it
is `Index`. In release mode the function goes from 257 to 269 instructions, with
the same 29 branches, 3 compares more and one call fewer: the loops are
vectorised and unrolled as before with other induction variables, and the
panic for a slice index out of range is gone.

Eleven comments named the two methods: six in `vec_ext.rs` and one each in
`ast_alloc.rs`, `bun_core/lib.rs`, `computeCrossChunkDependencies.rs`,
`renameSymbolsInChunk.rs` and `p.rs`. The last two were already wrong about the
code below them.
…fn`s

Eleven of the `#[no_mangle]` stand-ins for C and C++ symbols in
`src/sema/standalone` (ten in `native_libraries.rs`, one in `native.rs`) were
`unsafe extern "C" fn` although every parameter is unused: four return a
constant and seven panic. No argument can make them misbehave, so they are
safe, like `Bun__AOT__addressOfOffsetInCode` and the other stand-ins next to
them that take no pointer.

Nothing names them in Rust. The crates that import them declare the symbols
themselves, so no caller changes, and neither does the compiled code.
`MaxHeapAllocator`: `init` sets its private `ptr` to `None` and no method
allocates, so the `dealloc` in `Drop` never ran and the `unsafe impl Send` and
`Sync` guarded nothing. Its only users were three locals and a per-chunk
`scope()` guard in `write_output_files_to_disk`, which their own comments
called placeholders. `MAX_ALIGN_T`, with its Windows and FreeBSD aarch64 arms,
had no other use. That function loses three calls to the `Drop` impl and one
store of `len = 0` per chunk.

`unsafe impl Send`/`Sync for BSSList`: the list is only reached as a `*mut` out
of the `AtomicPtr` static of `bss_singleton!`, which asks for neither.

`unsafe impl Send for Zone`: `OnceLock<&'static Zone>` needs `Zone: Sync`,
which stays.

`unsafe trait FfiLayout` and its `unsafe impl` in `assert_ffi_layout!`: the
trait was never a bound and its two constants were never read. The `const`
assertions of the macro stay. The `[bun_opaque]` entry of
`mordant-baseline.toml` counted the two constants and goes with them.

`opaque_deref_mut_nn` had one caller, `opaque_deref_mut`, and is merged into
it. Its `debug_assert` for null went: the pointer comes out of a `NonNull`.

Apart from `MaxHeapAllocator::drop`, the release assembly of `bun_alloc` and
`bun_core` is the same before and after.
The C++ field is `std::atomic<uint32_t> m_refCount` (StringImpl.h:162). The
Rust mirror declared it `Cell<u32>` and had a private accessor that turned the
cell's address into an `&AtomicU32` with `AtomicU32::from_ptr` for `is_static`,
`ref` and `deref`. The field has the atomic type itself, which has the size and
alignment of `u32`, and the accessor is gone. The struct stays `!Freeze`, and
`!Send` and `!Sync` through its other fields. Its doc comment said that `ref`
and `deref` let C++ write the count; they do it in Rust. One line says who
writes the two interior-mutable fields.

`ref_count()` read the cell without an atomic. It does a relaxed load, as
`StringImpl::refCount()` does (StringImpl.h:429), so it does not race with
another thread's `ref` or `deref`. It has four callers: three `debug_assert`s
and `Any::memory_cost`. The orderings of the other three are unchanged.

The release assembly of `bun_alloc` is the same. In `bun_core` one function
differs, `String::thread_isolated_copy`, which touches no count: it tests the
two tags in the other order and uses one `add` more to address the 16 bytes it
copies. The crates that use `bun_core::String` emit the same load, test and
`lock add` for a `ref`, but the inliner chooses differently around them. In
`bun_runtime`, `String::create_if_different` (52 instructions) was called at 16
places and had `String::clone` inlined. It is inlined at those places and calls
`String::clone` (18 instructions). At 15 other places in `bun_runtime`, and at
one each in `bun_jsc` and `bun_bundler`, `String::clone` is called where it was
inlined.
`bun_alloc::Mutex::lock` transmuted the `std::sync::MutexGuard<'_, ()>` to
`'static` and wrapped it in its own `MutexGuard`, so that `&mut self` methods
could be called while the guard was alive. Only one place needed that:
`BSSMapInner::get` calls `self.at_index(..)` under the lock. `get_or_put`,
`mark_not_found`, `put` and `remove` only touch sibling fields, and the four
callers that have a `*mut Self` dereference it for every access.

`lock` returns `std::sync::MutexGuard<'_, ()>`. The body of `at_index` moves,
with its `unsafe` block, into a private `slot_at` that takes the two fields it
reads, and `at_index` and `get` call that. In `get` the compiler now checks that
nothing borrows the mutex mutably while it is locked.

Four comments said that the guard stores a raw pointer. It held the `std`
guard, which is a reference. Those sentences are deleted. What they concluded
was not true either, and is unchanged: `(*this).do_append(..)` and
`(*this).append_overflow_uninit()` still form a `&mut Self` that spans `mutex`
while the guard holds `&mutex`; the borrow checker does not follow borrows
through a raw pointer.

The locks are taken and released at the same places. The release assembly of
`bun_alloc` is the same. In `bun_resolver`, where the map is instantiated, an
out-of-line `slot_at` (28 instructions) stands where the out-of-line `at_index`
of the `DirInfo` map (26) stood.
…ecked slot

`OverflowListBlock::append` and `BSSMapInner::put` wrote a slot with
`MaybeUninit::write`, dropped the `&mut T` it returns, and indexed the slot
again for `unsafe { assume_init_mut() }`. They keep the returned reference. In
`append` it borrows `items` while the sibling `used` is stored, in the same
order as before.

`BSSListOverflowBlock::append_uninit` returns `Err` when
`index >= BSS_LIST_CHUNK_SIZE` and then did `as_mut_ptr().add(index)` in
`unsafe`. `&raw mut self.data[index]` is the same address; the array has
`BSS_LIST_CHUNK_SIZE` elements, so its bounds check repeats the test above it.

The release assembly of `bun_alloc` is the same before and after. In
`bun_resolver`, which instantiates all three, `OverflowList::append` spells one
test `> 2047` instead of `>= 2048`, and the rest is the same.
Both `cfg` arms of `heap_breakdown::Zone::init` were
`unsafe fn(name: *const c_char)` whose contract was "NUL-terminated and valid
for the whole process". That is `&'static CStr`, so the function takes one and
is safe. The macOS arm keeps its `unsafe` block for `malloc_set_zone_name` and
`&*zone`.

Its one caller, `get_zone!`, built the pointer from `concat!($name, "\0")` in an
`unsafe` block. It passes the literal on, and the two users of
`c_thunks_for_zone!` write `c"brotli"` and `c"zlib"`.

Zones exist only in macOS debug builds without ASAN (`ENABLED`). There `init`
receives a pointer and a length instead of a pointer, once per zone. Elsewhere
the call is dead code: the release assembly of `bun_alloc`, `bun_zlib` and
`bun_brotli` on Linux is the same before and after. The macOS arm passes
`cargo check --target aarch64-apple-darwin`.
`Thread::run` took `&raw mut self_` and dereferenced it in `unsafe` to call
`pop` and, twice, `drain_idle_events`, and `ThreadPool::register` stored
`(*thread).next` in `unsafe`. `drain_idle_events` and every method of `Queue`
and `Buffer` already take `&self`. `pop` took `&mut self` only to store
`self.target`, and that `&mut` was not exclusive: while a worker is in `pop`,
other workers read its `next`, `run_queue` and `run_buffer` through the pool's
list.

`next` and `target` are `Cell<*mut Thread>`, which keeps them at offsets 0 and
8. `next` is set before the compare-exchange that publishes the thread and only
read afterwards; `target` is used by its own worker alone. Each field says so.
`pop` takes `&self`, `run` calls the methods on its local, and
`ThreadRegistration` holds `&'a Thread`.

`register` had one caller, `ThreadRegistration::new`, and is written into it, so
no safe fn leaves the address of a `&Thread` in the pool's list. `new` stays
`unsafe`: a leaked guard would leave `CURRENT` and that list pointing at a dead
stack frame, and `pool` has to count the calling thread in `spawned`, which
`unregister` subtracts from. `unregister` takes `Option<&Thread>` instead of
`*mut Thread`, which has the same ABI: `drop` passes `Some(self.thread)`, `warm`
and `notify_slow` pass `None`, and the step through `NonNull` and `BackRef` is
gone.

The steal loop reads and writes the same fields in the same order with the same
orderings: the release assembly of `Thread::run`, into which `pop` is inlined,
is the same before and after. One function of `bun_threading` differs:
`ThreadRegistration::drop` loses the null test of `unregister`'s `maybe_thread`
(68 to 64 instructions).
`Bun__lock` was `unsafe extern "C" fn(ptr: *mut ReleaseImpl)` around
`(*ptr).lock()`. Only C calls it, at six places in `packages/bun-usockets/src`:

- `fault_inject.c:44`, `:54`, `:63` and `:73` pass `&us_fault_lock`, a
  `static zig_mutex_t`.
- `loop.c:376` and `:400` pass `&loop->data.mutex`, a field of the `us_loop_t`
  that `us_create_loop` gets from `us_xcalloc`.

Both are non-null and zero-initialised, which is the unlocked state of the
futex, `os_unfair_lock` and SRWLOCK implementations. `zig_mutex_t` is
`uint32_t`, `os_unfair_lock` or `void *`, which have the alignment of the Rust
types. Every caller goes on to use the data that the mutex guards, so the
object is live for the whole call. All three implementations are
interior-mutable, so a shared reference lets other threads lock at the same
time.

`Bun__unlock` keeps its raw pointer, for the reason `Mutex::unlock_raw` gives.

`Bun__lock` compiles to the same instructions. It now equals `Mutex::lock` down
to the parameter attributes, so in the Linux release build LLVM emits
`Mutex::lock` as an alias of it. The Windows and macOS implementations pass
`cargo check` for their targets.
`DebugData` is the canary that `RefCount` and `ThreadSafeRefCount` carry in
builds with `debug_assertions`. Its `deinit` took `&mut self` to clear
`magic: u32`. `RefCount::deref`, `ThreadSafeRefCount::deref` and
`ThreadSafeRefCount::release` have a `&` to the count in scope, so each of them
projected the field from the raw pointer a second time, in `unsafe`, to get a
`&mut` next to that `&`.

`magic` is an `AtomicU32` that is read and written relaxed, `deinit` takes
`&self`, and the three callers write `count.debug.deinit()`.

Release builds contain none of this: the release assembly of `bun_ptr` is the
same before and after. In debug builds the plain load and store of `magic`
become relaxed atomic ones.
…zero`

`drop` cleared the buffer that holds the connection options, the password among
them, with its own loop of one `write_volatile` per byte in `unsafe`.
`bun_alloc::secure_zero` takes the `&mut [u8]` and is safe, and `bun_sql_jsc`
already depends on `bun_alloc`.

The compiled code changes: the byte loop becomes one `memset`, which a
`black_box` on the pointer and a compiler fence keep rustc's LLVM backend from
removing. `write_volatile` is guaranteed by the language and `black_box` is
documented as best effort; this is the form `secure_zero`'s doc comment argues
for, and the other Rust code that zeroes a secret it owns uses it
(`Data::zdeinit`, `zero_sensitive`, `free_sensitive`, `free_sensitive_cstr`).
…t drops

The exported function took `*mut ModuleInfoDeserialized`. It turned the argument
into a `NonNull` with `unwrap_unchecked`, turned that back into a raw pointer, and
passed it to `ModuleInfoDeserialized::deinit`, an `unsafe fn` with no other caller
whose body was `drop(heap::take(this))`.

The parameter is now `Box<ModuleInfoDeserialized>` and the body is `drop(info)`.
That is what C++ passes: `ResolvedSource.module_info` is an
`Option<Box<ModuleInfoDeserialized>>`, and C++ gives back the pointer that it
found in that field. A `Box` of a sized type is passed as that pointer, and
`heap::take` is `Box::from_raw`, so the same box is dropped. As a `Box` the
parameter is `noalias`, `nonnull` and aligned for LLVM. No `unsafe` is left in
the function. `deinit`, the `NonNull` import and `use bun_core;` are gone.

A `Box` is never null and is owned by the callee. The four C++ call sites hold to
both. `Bun__analyzeTranspiledModule` (BunAnalyzeTranspiledModule.cpp) has returned
early if `m_moduleInfo` is null, and `releaseModuleInfo` (ZigGlobalObject.cpp)
gets a provider only if it is set; both set the field to null after the call.
`~SourceProvider` (ZigSourceProvider.cpp) and `~ErrorableResolvedSource`
(headers-handwritten.h) test the pointer in an `if`, and the object that held it
is gone afterwards. `m_moduleInfo` gets its value only from
`std::exchange(resolvedSource.module_info, nullptr)`, so the two objects never
hold the same pointer.
The two callers that collect a module record own it in a local
`Option<Box<ModuleInfo>>`. They turned `as_deref_mut()` into an
`Option<*mut ModuleInfo>`, which went through four functions of
`Transpiler`, all safe, one of them public, until `print_ast_esm_ascii`
turned it back into the `Option<&mut ModuleInfo>` that
`js_printer::Options` holds.

The four functions now take `Option<&mut ModuleInfo>` and the two callers
pass `module_info.as_deref_mut()`. They touch the box again only after the
call has returned. The third caller, in `AsyncModule`, passes `None` as before.

The argument is one pointer with null for `None`, where it was a tag and a
pointer.
`StaticRouteVisitor` held `&'a LinkerContext<'a>`. `LinkerContext` is invariant
in its lifetime, so no borrow of the `&mut LinkerContext<'a>` that
`generate_chunks_in_parallel` gets has that type, and the borrow was detached.
The struct now has two lifetimes, `&'a LinkerContext<'ctx>`, and holds `&*c`.
Up to the visitor's last use `c` is only used shared;
`write_output_files_to_disk(c, ..)` is in the other arm of the `if`.

`is_done` called `(*this).graph.drain_deferred_tasks(&mut *this)`: a
`&mut Graph` and a `&mut BundleV2` that contains it, both live.
`drain_deferred_tasks` is now a method of `BundleV2` that names `self.graph.*`.
It stays in Graph.rs, next to the counters it moves.

`scan_css_imports` was a safe function that took `*const [CssCol]` and
dereferenced it. It takes `&[CssCol]`. `finish_from_bake_dev_server` has a slice
and passes it. `scan_imports_and_exports` has column pointers and uses
`col_ref!`, as it does for the arguments next to this one.

`find_imported_files_in_css_order` cast a slice to `*const [LayerName]` and
dereferenced it, as a cast "between shadow types". `crate::bun_css::LayerName`
re-exports `::bun_css::css_parser::LayerName`, so there is one type and the
`match` yields `&[LayerName]`. For the same reason the
`.cast::<Vec<LayerName>>()` on each of the two pointers that the function hands
to `Layers::borrow` cast to the type it already had. Both are gone, with the
comments there, on `Layers::borrow` and in `prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs` that spoke
of two types. `Layers::borrow`, a safe function whose result `inner()`
dereferences, took a `NonNull` for those casts. It takes `&Vec<LayerName>`, and
`BackRef::new` stores the same pointer.

`run_resolver` kept the slot from `get_or_put` as `*mut u32` in both arms. With
`self.graph.build_graphs[target]` written out, which is the body of
`path_to_source_index_map`, the arm for an existing entry reads
`*entry.value_ptr` next to `self.graph.ast`. The other arm calls
`enqueue_parse_task(&mut self)` before it fills the slot and keeps the pointer.

The operations and their order stay the same at all five sites.
…al of the thread

`generation` was a field that only `thread_main` read and wrote, through the raw
`instance` pointer. It was also the only field written after the thread has set
`ready_event`, and so the reason why no thread could hold a `&BundleThread`.

It is now a local of `thread_main`. After `waker` is written, every thread only
reads the fields or uses the atomics in `ready_event` and `queue`, so
`thread_main` takes one `&*instance` there, in place of a dereference each for
`ready_event.set()`, `queue.pop()`, `waker.wait()` and, on Windows,
`waker.uv_loop()`.

`enqueue` was an `unsafe fn(*mut Self, *mut C)` that rebuilt a `NonNull` with
`new_unchecked`. Its one caller has a `NonNull<C>` and passed `.as_ptr()`. It is
now `unsafe fn enqueue(&self, NonNull<C>)`. The types say that the instance is
live and that the task is not null, and the body has no `unsafe` block:
`UnboundedQueue::push` and `Waker::wake` are safe `&self` functions on every
platform. It stays `unsafe` for the one obligation that no type carries:
`completion` must be a live task node that stays valid until the bundle thread
has run or freed it, because `thread_main` dereferences what it pops. The caller
dereferences the singleton pointer and calls `enqueue` in one block, where it
called the old function.

The counter moves from the heap allocation to the thread's stack or a register.
The calls and their order stay the same.
…re it uses it

The loop picked the client or the server transpiler at its top and kept it as
`*mut Transpiler`, because a borrow would have held `self` across the plugin
dispatch that follows. The pointer was dereferenced three times further down:
for `resolve_entry_point`, and twice in its error arm for `log`.

The transpiler is now picked after the plugin dispatch, right before
`resolve_entry_point`, as a `&mut`. What that call returns borrows only
`abs_path` and `dot_slash`, so `self` is free again in both arms. The error arm
first copies `transpiler.log` and uses the copy; the dereference for `reset()`
stays.

The pick now runs only for entry points that no plugin matched. It has no side
effect here: the one caller is the dev server, which sets `linker.dev_server`
and `client_transpiler` before, so `transpiler_for_target` only selects a
pointer.
… graph

The function went through the raw `parse_graph` pointer five times, four of them
in every iteration. One of the five, `(*parse_graph).path_to_source_index_map(..)`,
made a `&mut Graph` over the whole graph only to call `get(&self)` on one map,
while the source map workers that `link` has just scheduled read the same graph.
A sixth block made a `&mut Symbol` with `symbol_mut` to set `link`, which is a
`Cell`.

One block now borrows the four fields that are used:
`html_imports.html_source_indices` mutably, and
`html_imports.server_source_indices`, `input_files` and `build_graphs` shared.
The workers hold `&Graph` and `&BundleV2` at that time, and of the graph they read
only `input_files` and `pool`. The symbol comes from `LinkerGraph::symbol`, which
is `symbols.get_const(..).expect(..)`. `get_const` has the same two guards as
`get` and no bounds check either. `symbol` was compiled only with
`debug_assertions`, because its one user was, and loses that `cfg`.

The loop iterates over `server_source_indices` instead of indexing it, which
drops one bounds check per iteration, and the `source` column and the browser map
are looked up once instead of per iteration.
…nting into its `Transpiler`

`Transpiler` holds its `Linker` by value. The `Linker` held three raw pointers
back into the same `Transpiler`: `options`, `resolve_queue` and
`resolve_results`. They were null after `Transpiler::init`, were set by
`configure_linker*`, and had to be set again by `wire_after_move` after each move.
Three accessors dereferenced them.

`resolve_queue` and `resolve_results` served only `enqueue_resolve_result`, which
has one caller, `Transpiler::enqueue_entry_points`. It is now an associated
function that gets `&mut self.resolve_results` and `&mut self.resolve_queue`.
`options` served only two scalar reads at the top of `link`, which now takes
`options: &BundleOptions<'_>`. Its two callers in `Transpiler` pass
`&self.options`. The two callers outside the crate, in `AsyncModule` and
`jsc_hooks`, pass `&(*jsc_vm).transpiler.options` in the `unsafe` block they
already have; that is the field the pointer pointed to, because the VM calls
`configure_linker*` on the transpiler in place.

`Linker` is left with `log`, and `Linker::init` takes only that. The three
accessors and `reseat_self_refs` are gone.

`link` gets the address in an argument register instead of loading it from
`self`, `Transpiler` is 24 bytes smaller, and the debug assertions that the
pointers are not null are gone with the pointers.
`init` made a `MaybeUninit<Transpiler>` on its stack and passed it to
`init_in_place`, which wrote the twelve fields with `addr_of_mut!(..).write(..)`.
`init` then returned `Ok(slot.assume_init())`. `init_in_place` was meant for
callers that own the final storage, but it is `pub(crate)` and `init` was its
only caller: the VM, in another crate, calls `init` and writes the result into
its field.

`init` now has the body of `init_in_place` and ends in
`Ok(Transpiler { .. })`, with the fields in the same order, so the calls that
compute them run in the same order. All the fallible work still comes first.

No large value is moved more often than before. The options went from a local
into the slot and now go from the same local into the literal. The resolver went
from the result of `Resolver::init1` into the slot and now goes into the
literal. The whole struct went from the slot into the `Ok` and now goes from the
literal into the `Ok`.

The message of the panic for a null `log` names `init` instead of
`init_in_place`.
…rContext`

`find_all_imported_parts_in_js_order` and `run_walks` put
`ParentRef::from_ref_mut(this)` in the context they hand to `each_ptr`, and each
task turned it back with `unsafe { &*ctx.c.as_mut_ptr() }`. The first of the two
built a whole `GenerateChunkCtx` and used only its `c`. Step 5 of
`scan_imports_and_exports` wrapped a `*mut LinkerContext` in a struct with its
own `unsafe impl Sync`, and `do_step5` began with `&*this`.

The three contexts now hold `&LinkerContext`. `each` and `each_ptr` ask for
`Ctx: Sync`, which `&LinkerContext` has through the existing
`unsafe impl Sync for LinkerContext`. `find_all_imported_parts_in_js_order` and
`run_walks` took `&mut LinkerContext` for `from_ref_mut`, and `find_safe_walks`
took it to call `run_walks`. All three take `&LinkerContext`, and `do_step5` takes
`&self`. It stays an `unsafe fn`: the caller must give each concurrent call its
own rows.

While the pool runs, the calling thread is blocked in `each` / `each_ptr` and
holds only shared borrows of the linker: the context and `worker_pool()`. The
tasks hold `&LinkerContext`, as before, and write the rows and the one column
they own through the raw pointers of `split_raw(&self)`, which come from the
buffer pointer stored in the list and not from the reference.

`unsafe impl Send for PrepareCssAstTask` is removed: no bound asks for it. The
tasks stay in a local `Vec` and reach the pool as `*mut Task`.

The change is in the types only, with two exceptions.
`find_all_imported_parts_in_js_order` no longer forms the two unused pointers into
`chunks`. And the attributes of the changed parameters follow their types: the
three that were `&mut LinkerContext` lose `noalias` and `dereferenceable`, which a
`&` to a type with atomics in it does not get, and `do_step5`'s, which was a raw
pointer, gains `nonnull` and `align`.
…ot `*mut BundleV2`

Both were `unsafe fn(&mut self, bundle: *mut BundleV2, ..)`, because
`self.linker.link(self, ..)` does not borrow-check. All five callers hold a
`&mut BundleV2` or the `Box`, and each made a raw pointer from it in an `unsafe`
block to project `linker`, `graph.entry_points` and
`graph.server_component_boundaries`. Inside there were nine more blocks: five
project or read a field of `*bundle` that is disjoint from `linker` (`graph`,
`dynamic_import_entry_points`, `transpiler`, `has_any_top_level_await_modules`,
`unique_key`), two read the graph through `self.parse_graph`, one builds the
resolver's `ParentRef` through a pointer cast, and one is `link`'s call of
`load`.

`load` now takes `&mut Graph`, `&Transpiler` and the `&mut` map of dynamic import
entry points, which the callers borrow as disjoint fields next to
`&mut self.linker`. It reads the entry points, the boundaries, the sources and the
original names from the graph. The pointer cast that "erased" the resolver's
lifetime is gone: the lifetime was `'a` already. `link` takes the `bool` and the
`u64` it read from the bundle and no longer calls `load`. The new
`BundleV2::link` calls both, and four callers call that. The dev server only
loads, and calls `load` as before.

`load` stays an `unsafe fn`, with a smaller contract. That its arguments are
valid and disjoint from `self` is now checked by the compiler. What is left is
that `self` keeps the raw `parse_graph` pointer and a `ParentRef` to the
transpiler's resolver after those borrows have ended, and that safe accessors
such as `parse_graph()` and `resolver()` dereference them later. So both
arguments must be those of the `BundleV2` that holds `self`. `BundleV2::link` and
the dev server call `load` in one `unsafe` block each. `link` is a safe function.
It relies on `load` having run, like its callees `parse_graph()` and
`compute_chunks`, which are safe functions too.

`load` is separate so that no `&mut Graph` is live while the pool works on this
bundle. It runs after parsing is over and before any task of the link step is
scheduled, and its borrows end when it returns. `BundleV2::link`'s own
`&mut self` does span the link step, and the workers' pointers derive from it.
`generate_from_cli` and `generate_from_bake_production_cli` held only the `Box`
and a raw pointer there. `LinkerContext::link`, which schedules the source map
tasks and step 5, holds `&mut LinkerContext` as before, and two fewer borrows
into the graph: the entry points and the boundaries were parameters of it.

`load` is called from `BundleV2::link` instead of from `LinkerContext::link`, and
the two scalars are read before `LinkerContext::link` is called instead of during
it. Nothing writes them while linking. The stores in `load` keep their order.
`ParseTask<'a>` and `ServerComponentParseTask<'a>` carry the bundle's `'a`, but
their `ctx` was a `ParentRef<BundleV2<'static>, Mut>`. Nine places fill it. The
six in `ParseTask.rs` and `bundle_v2.rs` have the bundle as `BundleV2<'a>`, so
each wrote `unsafe { ParentRef::from_raw_mut(p.cast::<BundleV2<'static>>()) }`.
In the five in `bundle_v2.rs`, `p` is `ptr::from_mut` of the bundle. The sixth is
`ParseTask::init`, a safe function that took `*mut BundleV2<'a>` and read through
it; its five callers all pass `self`. The three places in `aot` (`plugins.rs`,
`native_plugins.rs` and `components.rs`) fill `ctx` from a `BundleV2<'static>`
carrier and do not change. `SourceMapDataTask` did the same as the six with
`LinkerContext<'static>`.

`ctx` is now `ParentRef<BundleV2<'a>, Mut>`, and those six places use the safe
`ParentRef::from_ref_mut(self)`. `init` takes `&mut BundleV2<'a>`.
`SourceMapDataTask` and `SourceMapData` get the linker's `'a`, and their `ctx` is
`ParentRef::new(&*self)`. `ParseTask<'a>` is now invariant in `'a`. Only the
runtime's task relied on shortening `'static`, so `RuntimeSource` and the
functions that make it are generic over `'a`.

The worker side does not change. The thread pool callbacks recover the task from
its intrusive field as `ParseTask<'static>`, and so on, as before, so `Result.ctx`
and the code in `aot` keep `BundleV2<'static>`.

The pointers have the same value and provenance as before: `ptr::from_mut(self)`
and `ptr::from_ref(self)` reborrowed `self` too. In `init` the reborrow is now the
parameter. It lasts for that call, on the bundle thread, inside a caller that
holds `&mut BundleV2` anyway. The change is in the types only, apart from the
`noalias` and `dereferenceable` attributes that `init`'s parameter gets as a
`&mut`.
`each_ptr` takes `values: &mut [V]`, makes one task per index, and blocks until
all of them are done. It passed each task a `*mut V`. All six callbacks, which
are all in the bundler, dereferenced it with the reason "`each_ptr` hands each
task a distinct pointer". Five began with `unsafe { &mut *ptr }`. The sixth,
`run_nested_rename_task`, read two fields at its start and wrote one at its end.
That the pointers are distinct and live is something only the pool can know.

The callback is now `Fn(&Ctx, &mut V, usize)`. `each_impl` has the exclusive
borrow of the slice, does not use it while the tasks run, and gives each index to
one task, so the block that computed `&raw mut (*values)[i]` makes
`&mut (*values)[i]` instead. The bound is higher-ranked, so a callback cannot keep
the reference, and `V: Send` was required already. `EachCall::call` is a safe
function now. Its `ByValue` impl, which serves `each` and `each_while`, copies out
of the reference. Apart from step 5 of the linker, which passes its own snapshot
of the reachable files, every caller of those two passes a fresh `vec![(); n]`.

No `&mut` lives longer than before in the five callbacks that made one on entry.
`generate_chunk` reads the other chunks through `ctx.chunks` while each task holds
the `&mut` to its own, as it did before.

The address and the bounds check are the same. What changes are the attributes of
the callbacks' parameter: as a `&mut V` it is `noalias` and `dereferenceable`.
Four of the six callbacks pass it on, and their callees had these attributes on
the same pointer already: `post_process_js_chunk`, `post_process_css_chunk` and
`post_process_html_chunk` under `generate_chunk`, `generate_js_renamer_` under
`generate_js_renamer`, and `find_imported_parts_in_js_order` and `EntryWalk::run`
under the two closures. For `finish_js_renamer` and `run_nested_rename_task` they
are new; neither uses another way to reach its value.

The doc of `GenerateChunkCtx` said that `each_ptr` asks for `Ctx: Sync + Copy`.
It asks for `Sync`.
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❌ @claude, your commit 5c2f91b has 38 failures in Build #137484 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 47901

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-47901 executable, so you can run:

bun-47901 --bun

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs, but at 27 commits across the thread pool, allocator, and bundler internals, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • Semaphore/Channel on Guarded<T>: read_item keeps the old empty-then-closed ordering and putters.signal(); wait_guarded releases/reacquires the same lock, so no borrow lives across the wait.
  • ThreadPool: ThreadRegistration::new inlines register with identical CAS ordering; next/target as Cell matches the documented single-writer discipline; Task::from_node cast is backed by the offset_of == 0 const assert on a #[repr(C)] struct.
  • LinkerContext::load/link split: all three BundleV2 callers previously passed graph.entry_points and graph.server_component_boundaries, which load now reads directly; build_graphs[Target::Browser] is exactly what path_to_source_index_map returned.
  • each_ptr &mut V per index: the slice stays exclusively borrowed by each_impl until group.wait(), so the per-index &mut is unique while the slice as a whole is untouched.
Extended reasoning...

The change is a 54-file, +521/-1440 refactor that removes unsafe code across bun_threading (Semaphore, Channel, ThreadPool worker registration and stealing), bun_alloc (Mutex guard lifetimes, BSS maps, secure_zero), and the bundler (LinkerContext load/link signature, parse task back-pointers, worker contexts). It touches no injection, auth, or data-exposure surface, though secure_zero/free_sensitive callers in sql, s3_signing and postgres are reshaped. The pieces I traced (channel ordering, registration CAS, link call sites, each_ptr aliasing) are behavior-preserving, and the hunt ran dry with no findings. The decision to defer rather than approve rests on the size and the fact that the thread pool and allocator are process-wide primitives where a subtle aliasing or ordering slip would not be caught by the existing test suite; the PR also adds no tests, which it describes as intentional for a pure refactor.

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BuildKite build 137484 of 5c2f91b has finished, and it is red. Nothing fails only here.

  • 188 of its 189 jobs ran to the end, and one was stopped at its time limit (below). 38 test files fail.
  • main is red at b9f2ec3, the base of this PR (build 137481), as it was at cdfa19b (137457), at 9365e0c (137445) and at 675ee5b (137327): 38 files, all under test/aot/ but for test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. The 38 files that fail here are those 38.
  • The same tests fail inside those files. Of the 75 tests that fail here, 73 fail in one of those four builds of main. The other 2 fail on ASAN only, which main does not run, and they fail there too in the builds of the last commits of Remove 131 unsafe blocks from Blob, Bun.write, FileSink, fetch, Response and the S3 client #47895 (137463), Remove 128 unsafe blocks from the event loop, spawn, bun_jsc, node:fs and fs.watch #47893 (137448), Remove 187 unsafe blocks from the VM, DNS, timers, and the socket and server code #47871 (137329) or Remove 126 unsafe blocks from the core crates, the resolver and the package manager #47414 (137212).
  • One shard of the ASAN lane ran into its 45-minute limit. It did not hang: it was stopped at file 647 of 762 while it went through several files a second.
  • 37 files failed and then passed. 32 of them are under test/aot/: 31 in the parallel batch of the ASAN lane, where most timed out or were interrupted, and one, program-handover.test.ts, in that of Debian x64. All 32 passed when they ran alone, three-layers-agree.test.ts at its third attempt (above). Four of the other 5 fail in the same way in builds that have none of these commits:
    • test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts needed 1 retry on Alpine aarch64, and test/flaky-tests.txt lists it. The test "does not take a promise of the program's, pending, for that of the entry point" saw one line twice. That test or its neighbour "rejected and handled" needed a retry on the same lane in builds 137481, 137327 and 137130 of main.
    • test/js/web/request/request-clone-leak.test.ts needed 2 retries on ASAN. Its test "new Request(test Fix ?? operator  #1)" measures a growth of 64 MB, and the bound is less than 64. It measured the same 64 MB in build 137212 of the last commit of Remove 126 unsafe blocks from the core crates, the resolver and the package manager #47414.
    • test/js/bun/spawn/spawn_waiter_thread.test.ts failed in the parallel batch on Ubuntu x64, Debian aarch64 and Debian x64, and passed alone. The same test, "exited rejects when the waiter thread can't start, and the next spawn retries", did so in builds 137457, 137445 and 137327 of main.
    • test/js/bun/jsonl/jsonl-parse-chunk-utf8.test.ts compares two run times. In the parallel batch on Debian x64 it measured a ratio of 5.4, where the bound is 4.5, and it passed alone. It did the same on the same lane in build 137130 of main.
    • test/js/third_party/grpc-js/test-channelz.test.ts failed in the parallel batch on macOS x64, where "should count successful calls" counted 2 and expects 1, and passed alone. I did not find it in the 26 other builds that I looked at. All four shards of that lane are green.
  • I have no fix to port. AOT: hangs, wrong answers, failed builds; bun test --aot follows #44833's mocks #47605 ("AOT: hangs, wrong answers, failed builds; bun test --aot follows bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833's mocks") looks like the fix for most of them, and it changes 7,093 files.

On GitHub every check passes on 5c2f91b: Format, the lints, cargo clippy, cargo miri test, the lol-html tests and mordant.


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The change removes several raw-pointer and erased-lifetime interfaces across allocation, bundling, threading, and FFI code. It also replaces manual synchronization state, unsafe trait implementations, and unsafe sensitive-memory APIs with typed references and guarded state.

Ownership and allocation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Allocator and memory contracts
src/bun_alloc/*, src/collections/vec_ext.rs, src/opaque/lib.rs, src/ptr/ref_count.rs
Removed MaxHeapAllocator, simplified allocation helpers, changed secure_zero to accept slices, and updated atomic reference-count and opaque-pointer handling.
FFI and sensitive-data callers
src/sema/standalone/*, src/sql/**, src/s3_signing/credentials.rs, src/threading/Mutex.rs, src/brotli/lib.rs, src/zlib/stream.rs
Updated C ABI safety declarations, C-string zone names, module deinitialization, mutex access, and sensitive-data clearing calls.

Bundler

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bundler lifetime and linker wiring
src/bundler/*.rs, src/bundler/linker_context/*
Replaced several raw pointers and erased lifetimes with typed references, explicit lifetime parameters, direct chunk and task references, and explicit linker inputs.
Bundler entry points and task setup
src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs, src/bundler/transpiler.rs, src/bundler/aot/page_bundles.rs
Added BundleV2::link, routed build paths through it, changed transpiler construction to return a value, and passed mutable module information by reference.

Threading

Layer / File(s) Summary
Threading and work-pool synchronization
src/threading/Semaphore.rs, src/threading/channel.rs, src/threading/ThreadPool.rs, src/threading/work_pool.rs
Moved synchronization state into Guarded, used borrowed worker links and Cell, changed task callbacks to &mut references, and made work-pool traits safe.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii

Merge Risk: Low · up to 5c2f9

The refactor has one bounded safety concern: failed allocator-zone creation on debug macOS builds can cause undefined behavior through a newly safe interface. Add the null check; the other retained findings describe existing behavior.

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Minor · Stop the bundle generation counter from freezing at u16::MAX. · BundleThread.rs:254

src/bundler/BundleThread.rs:254
Minor · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff

Stop the bundle generation counter from freezing at u16::MAX.

generation saturates at 65535 in src/bundler/BundleThread.rs. After that point, resolver directory caches stop refreshing for later builds in the same process. The removed unsafe block already used the same saturating_add, so this PR does not introduce the behavior. Use a wider counter or reset the resolver caches at wrap-around.

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Review comment at @src/bundler/BundleThread.rs at line 254:
Update the generation counter in the BundleThread flow so it continues to
distinguish later builds after reaching u16::MAX; use a wider counter or reset
the resolver directory caches at the counter’s wrap-around, preserving cache
refresh behavior for subsequent builds.
Minor · Avoid holding a shared ParentRef to LinkerContext while link takes… · LinkerContext.rs:647

src/bundler/LinkerContext.rs:647
Minor · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift

Avoid holding a shared ParentRef to LinkerContext while link takes &mut self.

Source-map tasks read LinkerContext through the ParentRef built at compute_data_for_source_map. link then calls &mut self methods before those tasks are joined in generate_chunks_in_parallel. Restructure the access so link does not take &mut self while those tasks hold ctx, or join the tasks first.

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Review comment at @src/bundler/LinkerContext.rs at line 647:
Restructure the source-map task flow around compute_data_for_source_map and
generate_chunks_in_parallel so link does not take &mut self while tasks hold a
ParentRef to LinkerContext. Ensure those tasks finish before link’s mutable
access, or otherwise end the shared reference before that access, while
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Review comments at @src/bun_alloc/heap_breakdown.rs:
- Around line 32-38: Update Zone::init to check the result of malloc_create_zone
for NULL before passing it to malloc_set_zone_name or converting it to a
reference. Ensure failure is handled before either unsafe use, and keep the
SAFETY comment accurate for the checked success path.

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Minor comments:
Review comments at @src/bundler/BundleThread.rs:
- Line 254: Update the generation counter in the BundleThread flow so it
continues to distinguish later builds after reaching u16::MAX; use a wider
counter or reset the resolver directory caches at the counter’s wrap-around,
preserving cache refresh behavior for subsequent builds.

Review comments at @src/bundler/LinkerContext.rs:
- Line 647: Restructure the source-map task flow around
compute_data_for_source_map and generate_chunks_in_parallel so link does not
take &mut self while tasks hold a ParentRef to LinkerContext. Ensure those tasks
finish before link’s mutable access, or otherwise end the shared reference
before that access, while preserving source-map generation behavior.

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Comment thread src/bun_alloc/heap_breakdown.rs Resolved
dylan-conway pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 4, 2026
Its man page says that `malloc_create_zone` returns null if there was an error.
`init` passed the result to `malloc_set_zone_name` and turned it into a
`&'static Zone` without looking. It is a safe fn since #47901, so it may not
rely on that.

It asserts first that the pointer is not null. The call to `malloc_create_zone`,
which is a `safe fn`, moves out of the `unsafe` block.

The code is compiled for macOS only, and it runs only where
`heap_breakdown::ENABLED` is true: in debug builds without ASAN, once per zone.
dylan-conway pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 4, 2026
`malloc_create_zone` returns null on an error, says its man page. `init` named
the zone and turned it into a `&'static Zone` without looking, and it is a safe
fn since #47901. It asserts first that the pointer is not null.

This is compiled for macOS only and runs only where `heap_breakdown::ENABLED` is
true: in debug builds without ASAN, once per zone.
dylan-conway pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 4, 2026
`malloc_create_zone` returns null on an error, says its man page. `init` named
the zone and turned it into a `&'static Zone` without looking, and it is a safe
fn since #47901. It asserts first that the pointer is not null.

This is compiled for macOS only and runs only where `heap_breakdown::ENABLED` is
true: in debug builds without ASAN, once per zone.
dylan-conway pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 4, 2026
`malloc_create_zone` returns null on an error, says its man page. `init` named
the zone and turned it into a `&'static Zone` without looking, and it is a safe
fn since #47901. It asserts first that the pointer is not null.

This is compiled for macOS only and runs only where `heap_breakdown::ENABLED` is
true: in debug builds without ASAN, once per zone.
dylan-conway pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 4, 2026
`malloc_create_zone` returns null on an error, says its man page. `init` named
the zone and turned it into a `&'static Zone` without looking, and it is a safe
fn since #47901. It asserts first that the pointer is not null.

This is compiled for macOS only and runs only where `heap_breakdown::ENABLED` is
true: in debug builds without ASAN, once per zone.
dylan-conway pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 4, 2026
`malloc_create_zone` returns null on an error, says its man page. `init` named
the zone and turned it into a `&'static Zone` without looking, and it is a safe
fn since #47901. It asserts first that the pointer is not null.

This is compiled for macOS only and runs only where `heap_breakdown::ENABLED` is
true: in debug builds without ASAN, once per zone.
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…closeFunctions` unsafe to call (#47940)

### What does this PR do?

Eight follow-ups, one commit each. Four of them correct a signature from
#47231, #47291, #47338 or #47895 that promised more than it can keep,
and the fifth adds the null check that the review of #47901 asked for.
The last three come from the review of this PR: a comment of change 1
that was wrong, the kqueue sibling of `epoll_ctl`, and a gap in the
contracts of both.

A `safe fn` import, like any safe function, promises that no call that
compiles can go wrong: for every argument, in every state, on every
thread. Reading the C and C++ behind those PRs once more with that
question turned up nine functions that ask for more than their arguments
can carry (the two wrappers of `epoll_ctl`, six imports of the uSockets
loop and one of `bun:ffi`), a tenth that was a safe function before
those PRs (`bun_sys::kevent`), and one pair of out-parameters that asked
C++ for more than they need.

Together: **21 more `unsafe` blocks and 3 more `unsafe fn`s**, +116/−47
over 10 files. **On Linux the compiled code is the same; see [Where the
compiled code changes](#where-the-compiled-code-changes).**

| # | Change | `unsafe` | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sys: `linux::epoll_ctl` is an `unsafe fn` again, for the value it
registers | +3 blocks, +2 `unsafe fn` | +27/−6, 3 files |
| 2 | uws: six loop imports are unsafe again, and their callers say what
they rely on | +12 blocks | +46/−18, 1 file |
| 3 | ffi: `Bun__FFI__closeFunctions` is an unsafe import again | +1
block | +4/−2, 1 file |
| 4 | TextDecoderStream: the two results of
`TextDecoder__createForStream` are `&mut MaybeUninit` | 0 | +6/−5, 1
file |
| 5 | alloc: `Zone::init` asserts that `malloc_create_zone` gave it a
zone | 0 | +4/−4, 1 file |
| 6 | io: the comment on `FilePoll`'s `epoll_ctl` says what `deinit`
really leaves behind | 0 | +2/−1, 1 file |
| 7 | sys: `kevent` is an `unsafe fn`, for the `udata` it registers | +5
blocks, +1 `unsafe fn` | +25/−12, 4 files |
| 8 | sys, io: the contracts of `epoll_ctl` and `kevent` cover the
events already fetched | 0 | +7/−4, 2 files |

The commits can be reviewed one at a time.

Worth knowing before reading on:

- **Change 1 closes a hole that #47338 opened.** `epoll_ctl` registers a
value that the event loops later use as a pointer, and an epoll
descriptor is a plain integer that `Loop::fd()` returns. As a safe
function it let safe code anywhere in the workspace register any value
with either loop. No caller did. It is an `unsafe fn` again, and its
contract names the value, which its old one did not.
- **Change 7 closes the same hole on macOS and FreeBSD,** where it is
older than these PRs. `bun_sys::kevent` registers `udata`, which
uSockets uses as a pointer in the same way. It was a safe `pub fn`;
`darwin::kevent64` and the raw re-export were `unsafe fn`s already. Two
of its five callers register changes, each with a kqueue of its own
whose readers take `udata` as a number or ignore it. The other three
only wait.
- **Both contracts cover the events that the waiter has already
fetched** (change 8). `EPOLL_CTL_DEL`, `EV_DELETE` or `EV_ONESHOT` can
end a registration while the waiter still holds an event for it, so the
value has to stay good until the waiter is done with those. `FilePoll`
keeps to that: a slot that was ever registered is marked `IgnoreUpdates`
and is reused only after a tick has returned.
- **Changes 2 and 3 do not change what safe code can reach.**
`Loop::tick`, `run`, `drain_quic_if_necessary`, `close_all_groups` and
`FFI::close` were safe before #47231 and #47291 and still are. What
comes back is the `unsafe` block around each foreign call, with a
comment that says what the call relies on: that a handler which ticks
the loop is done with what the dispatch lent it, that no close handler
frees another socket group during the walk, that `functionsValue` is the
array that `cc` filled.
- **The types of #47231 stay.** The loop imports keep `&Loop`, whose
fields are `Cell`s, so no `&mut Loop` comes back.
- **Change 4 asks C++ for less.** `&mut bool` and `&mut EncodingLabel`
say that a valid value is there already; `&mut MaybeUninit<_>` asks only
for room.
- **Change 5 is compiled only for macOS,** change 7 only for macOS and
FreeBSD, and half of change 2 only for Windows.

### Where the compiled code changes

Nowhere on Linux. I compared the release assembly (x86-64 Linux,
`--emit=asm`) of all 134 crates of the workspace, before and after. For
93 of them the files are the same byte for byte. The other 41, with
34,996 functions, I compared function by function, with names demangled
and labels normalised. What differs there is debug information and the
hashes in symbol names. One function differs in a constant:
`MySQLConnection::send_handshake_response` holds Bun's version string,
which ends in the hash of the commit that was built.

The comparison ran on changes 1 to 5. Changes 6 and 8 edit comments.
Change 7 and the Windows half of change 2 are not compiled on Linux:
they put the same calls, five and six of them, with the same arguments,
into `unsafe` blocks.

Change 5 adds one test for null, and a panic behind it, to `Zone::init`.
It is compiled only for macOS and runs only in debug builds without
ASAN, once per zone.

### The changes in detail

#### 1. sys: `linux::epoll_ctl` is an `unsafe fn` again, for the value
it registers

`epoll_ctl` gives the kernel `event.u64`, and `epoll_wait` gives it back
to whoever waits on `epfd`. Both loops here use it as a pointer.
uSockets reads a `us_poll_t` through it (`GET_READY_POLL`,
eventing/epoll_kqueue.c) or passes a tagged one to
`Bun__internal_dispatch_ready_poll`, and the thread of `bun_io` turns it
into a `Pollable`. An epoll descriptor is a plain integer, which
`Loop::fd()` returns. So as a safe fn, `epoll_ctl` let safe code
register any value with either loop.

#47338 made `linux::epoll_ctl` and `linux_syscall::epoll_ctl` safe when
it typed their `event` pointer as `Option<&epoll_event>`. The reference
carries what their contract named until then, that the pointer is null
or valid. It does not carry this. Both are `unsafe fn`s again, with the
registered value as their contract, and they keep the reference.

`FilePoll::register_with_fd_impl` and `unregister_with_fd_impl` call it
in an `unsafe` block each, as they did before #47338. The compiled code
is the same.

#### 2. uws: six loop imports are unsafe again, and their callers say
what they rely on

#47231 put the fields of `Loop` in `Cell`s, gave the loop imports
`&Loop`, and marked six of them `safe fn` on the ground that a live loop
on its own thread is all that C asks for. C asks for more:

- `us_loop_run_bun_tick`, and `us_loop_run` and `us_loop_pump` on
Windows, dereference `loop->data.jsc_vm`. uSockets provides for a tick
inside a handler (`tick_depth`, `poll_cb_depth`), but the inner tick
receives into the same `recv_buf` that the outer handler was lent and
can dispatch the same socket again. On Windows it is a `uv_run` inside a
libuv callback, which libuv's documentation rules out.
- `us_quic_loop_flush_if_pending` stays out of lsquic's callbacks by
testing `processing`, which `us_quic_socket_make_stream` does not set
around the `on_stream_open` that it makes.
- `us_loop_close_all_groups` reads `next->linked` after the close
handlers of the current group ran, so none of them may free that group.
- `us_nq_loop_drain` takes `d->next` before
`Bun__nodeQuic__drainEndpoint` runs JS.

The six are plain imports again and keep `&Loop`. Their twelve calls, in
`tick`, `tick_without_idle`, `tick_with_timeout`, `run`,
`drain_quic_if_necessary` and `close_all_groups` on both platforms, are
in `unsafe` blocks again, as before #47231, with what each relies on in
its `SAFETY` comment. Those methods were safe before #47231 and still
are, so what safe code can reach is the same. The compiled code is the
same.

#### 3. ffi: `Bun__FFI__closeFunctions` is an unsafe import again

#47291 marked it a `safe fn` because C++ type-checks `library` before it
uses it. C++ also takes the `functionsValue` internal field of the
library, checks only that it is a `JSArray`, and reads it with
`getIndexQuickly(i)` for every `i` below its length (JSFFIFunction.cpp).
That is in bounds for the array that `cc` stores, which it fills from 0
to its length and which JS never sees. It is not for a sparse array, and
the generated `functions_value_set_cached` is a safe fn that stores any
value.

The import, which is local to `FFI::close`, is a plain one again and
keeps `&JSGlobalObject`. Its one call is in an `unsafe` block again,
which names the array. The compiled code is the same.

#### 4. TextDecoderStream: the two results of
`TextDecoder__createForStream` are `&mut MaybeUninit`

#47895 typed the two out-parameters `&mut bool` and `&mut
EncodingLabel`, where they had been raw pointers that the body only
wrote through. A `&mut` says that a valid value is there already. That
holds for the one caller, which passes the addresses of `bool
utf8FastPath = false` and `uint8_t encoding = 0`
(JSTextDecoderStream.cpp), but only because of those two initialisers
and because `EncodingLabel::Utf8` is 0.

`&mut MaybeUninit<bool>` and `&mut MaybeUninit<EncodingLabel>` ask for
nothing but room, and the body stores with `write`. The compiled code is
the same.

#### 5. alloc: `Zone::init` asserts that `malloc_create_zone` gave it a
zone

`malloc_create_zone` returns null on an error, says its man page. `init`
named the zone and turned it into a `&'static Zone` without looking, and
it is a safe fn since #47901. It asserts first that the pointer is not
null.

This is compiled for macOS only and runs only where
`heap_breakdown::ENABLED` is true: in debug builds without ASAN, once
per zone.

#### 6. io: the comment on `FilePoll`'s `epoll_ctl` says what `deinit`
really leaves behind

The `SAFETY` comment said that `deinit` unregisters the poll before its
slot is reused. `deinit` passes `force_unregister = false`, and for a
one-shot poll that has fired (`NeedsRearm`) `unregister_with_fd_impl`
then returns before its `EPOLL_CTL_DEL`. The entry stays in the kernel
with the slot's address in it.

What keeps that address from coming back is `EPOLLONESHOT`: the kernel
disarmed the entry when it reported it, and reports it again only after
an `EPOLL_CTL_MOD`. The comment says so. Only the comment changes.

#### 7. sys: `kevent` is an `unsafe fn`, for the `udata` it registers

`bun_sys::kevent` is to kqueue what `linux::epoll_ctl` is to epoll. A
change carries `udata`, and whoever waits on the kqueue gets it back. On
macOS and FreeBSD uSockets reads a `us_poll_t` through it
(`GET_READY_POLL`, eventing/epoll_kqueue.c) or passes a tagged one to
`Bun__internal_dispatch_ready_poll`, and `Loop::fd()` returns the
descriptor. As a safe `pub fn` over `&[libc::kevent]`, it let safe code
register any `udata` with the loop. No caller did. `darwin::kevent64`
and the raw `kevent` re-export were `unsafe fn`s already.

It is an `unsafe fn` with the registered `udata` as its contract. Of its
five calls, two register changes, each with a kqueue of its own whose
readers take `udata` as a number or ignore it: `wait_mac_kqueue` in
spawn/process.rs and `add_file_descriptor_to_kqueue_without_checks` in
the watcher. The other three pass an empty changelist and only wait.

All of this is compiled only for macOS and FreeBSD. The same calls are
made with the same arguments.

#### 8. sys, io: the contracts of `epoll_ctl` and `kevent` cover the
events already fetched

Both said that the registered value must be what the waiter expects for
as long as the registration lasts. That is not enough. `EPOLL_CTL_DEL`,
`EV_DELETE` or `EV_ONESHOT` can end a registration while the waiter
still holds an event for it that an earlier `epoll_wait` or `kevent`
returned. The value has to stay good until the waiter is done with
those, and the two `# Safety` sections say so.

`FilePoll` keeps to that, and the `SAFETY` comment on its `epoll_ctl`
names how: `Store::put` marks a slot that was ever registered
`IgnoreUpdates`, which the dispatch tests, and frees it only in the
callback that each driver of the loop runs when a tick has returned. By
then the batch that the tick fetched has been dispatched, and a tick
inside a handler has overwritten the outer one's.

Only comments change.

### How did you verify your code works?

- **Static checks on the final commit:** `cargo fmt --check`, `cargo
clippy --workspace` (0 warnings), the source lints and `cargo check
--workspace --release` on Linux, and `cargo check --workspace --release`
for `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc`, `aarch64-apple-darwin` and
`x86_64-unknown-freebsd`, because changes 2, 5 and 7 touch code that
Linux does not compile.
- **Assembly:** the comparison above.
- **No tests were run locally,** because nothing that runs on Linux
changed.


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dylan-conway added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 5, 2026
…-ares, BoringSSL, `node:quic` and the parser (#47944)

### What does this PR do?

35 separate changes, one commit each: 10 in IPC, N-API, `bun:ffi` and
their neighbours, 15 in `node:zlib`, the c-ares and BoringSSL bindings
and `node:quic`, and 10 in the parser, the printer, CSS, `Bun.Image` and
smaller crates. They follow #47291, #47317, #47338, #47382, #47393,
#47414, #47871, #47893, #47895, #47901 and #47940 and work the same way:
signatures name the type and the lifetime that the value already has,
hand-written pointer code becomes plain ownership and borrows that the
compiler checks, and what was never needed is deleted.

Together: **125 fewer `unsafe` blocks, 17 fewer `unsafe fn`s and 4 fewer
`unsafe impl`s**, +870/−1499 over 58 files. No safe function became
`unsafe`, and no wrapper type was added. **[Where the compiled code
changes](#where-the-compiled-code-changes) lists every place where the
program does different work.**

| # | Change | `unsafe` | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ipc: `CHANNEL` holds `&'static IPCInstance`, boxed once the
transport is up | −9 blocks, −1 `unsafe fn` | +34/−74, 3 files |
| 2 | napi: `Bun__napi_check_gc` and `NapiHandleScope__escape` are `safe
fn` | −2 blocks | +4/−7, 1 file |
| 3 | napi: entry points take the env and scope handles as `Option<&T>`
or `&T` | −7 blocks | +92/−73, 1 file |
| 4 | napi: `Finalizer::run` and `schedule` borrow their env, and three
more borrows | −5 blocks, −1 `unsafe impl` | +14/−27, 2 files |
| 5 | tcc: `Config::options` is `Option<&'a ZStr>` | −2 blocks | +9/−12,
2 files |
| 6 | ffi: no reference is made from an address only to turn it back
into one | −2 blocks, −1 `unsafe fn` | +38/−64, 3 files |
| 7 | ipc: the JSON decoder's free callback takes `&Cell<bool>` | −1
block | +7/−9, 1 file |
| 8 | sql: the `ssl_config_from_js` and `timer_heap` hooks are safe
`fn`s | −1 block, −4 `unsafe fn` | +5/−6, 2 files |
| 9 | webview: both `spawn` functions take `&VirtualMachine` | −2 blocks
| +10/−23, 2 files |
| 10 | crash_handler: `uv_posix` calls `unsupported_uv_function` as a
Rust function | −1 block | +16/−17, 2 files |
| 11 | node:zlib: the write's completion owns its ref as a `RefPtr<T>` |
−4 blocks, −2 `unsafe fn` | +13/−36, 2 files |
| 12 | node:zlib: `borrow_input_copy` borrows the copy through
`JsCell::get` | −1 block | +4/−6, 1 file |
| 13 | node:zlib: `NativeBrotli` passes `&raw mut self.next_in` and
keeps `last_result` as a `c_int` | −5 blocks | +11/−32, 1 file |
| 14 | c-ares: `AresReply` names its parser as an associated const | −6
blocks | +15/−27, 1 file |
| 15 | c-ares: `get_sockaddr` and `get_name_info` take
`sockaddr_storage` | −4 blocks | +19/−52, 3 files |
| 16 | boringssl: `Bun__X509__checkHost` types its certificate and its
out-parameter | −2 blocks | +7/−8, 1 file |
| 17 | boringssl_sys: `X509_get_subject_name` is a `safe fn`, and a
stack free without fn-pointer transmutes | −2 blocks, −3 `unsafe fn` |
+7/−18, 1 file |
| 18 | boringssl_sys: the digest getters return `&'static EVP_MD`, and
`EVP_DigestInit` is a `safe fn` | −3 blocks | +35/−55, 3 files |
| 19 | net: `BlockList__onStructuredCloneDestroy` takes the
`RefPtr<BlockList>` it releases | −2 blocks, −2 `unsafe fn` | +4/−14, 1
file |
| 20 | node:quic: `on_new_conn` uses the `Conn` it already has | −4
blocks | +5/−27, 2 files |
| 21 | node:quic: the loop-driver callbacks take `&QuicEndpoint`;
`lookup_cert` stays typed | −4 blocks, −3 `unsafe fn` | +23/−62, 2 files
|
| 22 | node:quic: `QuicEndpoint::constructor` reads its options before
it creates the cell | −6 blocks | +81/−88, 1 file |
| 23 | node:quic: `QuicSession::create` and `QuicStream::create` return
the reference they make | −7 blocks | +61/−75, 3 files |
| 24 | node:quic: a session holds `Option<Conn>` and a stream holds
`Option<Stream>` | −13 blocks | +165/−181, 4 files |
| 25 | ast: `Binding::to_expr` takes `&mut C` and the method that wraps
an identifier | −3 blocks | +18/−160, 5 files |
| 26 | js_parser: `P::init` returns the `&mut P` it wrote, and `init_p!`
binds it | −5 blocks | +31/−50, 3 files |
| 27 | js_printer: the three `write_reserved` callers use `print_slice`
| −3 blocks | +12/−47, 1 file |
| 28 | image, aot, mimalloc: imports that only write their
out-parameters are `safe fn` | −8 blocks | +51/−72, 7 files |
| 29 | js_parser_jsc: `MacroContext::call` borrows `self.macros` and
`self.bump` | −2 blocks | +6/−20, 1 file |
| 30 | ast, sql_jsc: remove three `unsafe impl Send`/`Sync` that nothing
needs | −3 `unsafe impl` | +0/−15, 3 files |
| 31 | css: two needless `unsafe` in values/ident.rs | −1 block, −1
`unsafe fn` | +2/−11, 1 file |
| 32 | valkey, image, sql_jsc, ast: `&Self` guards, `&Blob`, `&Symbol`,
a `const` array | −3 blocks | +17/−34, 4 files |
| 33 | aot, md: three byte views go through `bun_core::slice_as_bytes` |
−3 blocks | +16/−22, 5 files |
| 34 | ast: `Rope<'a>` links its segments with `Option<&'a mut
Rope<'a>>` | −1 block | +34/−56, 3 files |
| 35 | c-ares: `ResolveHandler` names its callback as an associated
const | −1 block | +6/−21, 2 files |

The commits can be reviewed one at a time.

Worth knowing before reading on:

- **Nothing that users can see changes.** Under `test/`, a comment in
`spawn.ipc.test.ts` named a function that change 1 deletes, and the
inventory of the `vm-thread-door` source lint loses the entries of
removed `unsafe impl`s (changes 4 and 30).
- **Five changes end an aliasing or contract bug that had no visible
effect.**
- Change 6: `bun:ffi`'s `toBuffer` and `toArrayBuffer` made a `&mut
[u8]` over memory that belongs to the caller.
- Change 9: both `spawn` functions of the webview were safe functions
that dereferenced a `*mut VirtualMachine`.
- Change 15: `get_sockaddr` took a `&mut sockaddr`, 16 bytes, and wrote
a 28-byte `sockaddr_in6` through it.
- Change 24: ten safe functions of `node:quic` took a raw lsquic pointer
that they or a later function trusted.
- Change 32: `BlobReadChain::start` held a `&mut Blob` across a call
that can run JS.
- **The parser copies less:** moving the parser's slot into its drop
guard was a `memcpy` of 4,344 bytes per parse, and most callers made a
second one to drop it. Both are gone (change 26), and `P` is 32 bytes
smaller (25).
- **N-API entry points say what an add-on may pass** (change 3):
`Option<&NapiEnv>` has the ABI of a nullable pointer, null is `None`,
and every null test is where it was.
- **In `node:quic` the lifetimes come from the owner:** `create` returns
a reference that borrows from the endpoint or the session (change 23),
and a session holds `Option<Conn>` and a stream `Option<Stream>`, one
pointer each, with six repeated null tests fewer (24).
- **Functions that C, C++ or add-ons call have typed parameters**
(changes 3, 7, 16, 19 and 21). Each message names the call sites and
what they pass.
- **Imports that are `safe fn`s:** `Bun__napi_check_gc` and
`NapiHandleScope__escape` (change 2), `X509_get_subject_name` (17),
`EVP_DigestInit` and the digest getters, which return `&'static EVP_MD`
(18), and four that only write their out-parameters (28). Each message
says what the C side reads and writes, for every argument, in every
state and on every thread. The other shims over `NapiEnv` stay unsafe
imports, because they belong on the env's JS thread.
- **Dead code goes:** `IPCInstance::new` and `deinit` (change 1),
`write_reserved`, `advance` and `advance_by` (27), three declarations of
BoringSSL functions that nothing calls (18), three `unsafe impl
Send`/`Sync` (30) and an `unsafe fn as_slice` (31).
- **Parts of four changes are compiled only for Windows or macOS:** 1
(the Windows arm of `get_ipc_instance`), 9 (the macOS
`HostProcess::spawn` and the Windows arms of Chrome's `spawn`), 15 (the
WinSock names) and 28 (`mi_process_info` on Windows).

### Where the compiled code changes

I compared the release assembly (x86-64 Linux, `--emit=asm`) of all 134
crates of the workspace, before and after. For 95 of them the files are
the same byte for byte. The other 39 I compared function by function,
with names demangled and labels normalised. In 26 of the 39 (30,267
functions) no function differs: what differs is the debug information.
13 crates differ:

| Crate | Functions | Differ | Other constants or names only | Same
length | Shorter | Longer | Instructions | Branches | Compares | Calls |
Panic call sites |
|---|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|
| `bun_ast` | 352 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | −555 | −45 | −45 | −46 | −9 |
| `bun_js_parser` | 1,361 | 374 | 327 | 4 | 34 | 9 | +223 | −24 | −32 |
+12 | −6 |
| `bun_bundler` | 1,983 | 38 | 26 | 0 | 6 | 6 | +143 | +5 | +3 | −8 | −4
|
| `bun_runtime` | 11,204 | 131 | 76 | 12 | 21 | 22 | −207 | +2 | +3 |
−16 | −8 |
| `bun_js_printer` | 130 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | −11 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 |
| `bun_install`, `bun_sourcemap_jsc` | 3,000 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +97 |
+9 | +9 | −7 | 0 |
| `bun_sha_hmac` | 34 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | −54 | 0 | 0 | −24 | 0 |
| `bun_boringssl_sys` | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | −10 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −1
|
| `bun_ini` | 59 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | −24 | −11 | −12 | −1 | 0 |
| `bun_js_parser_jsc` | 51 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | −20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| `bun_cares_sys` | 21 | 0 | | | | | −6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| `bun_crash_handler` | 123 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +5 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 |
| All 13 | 18,332 | 570 | 429 | 18 | 80 | 43 | −419 | −66 | −76 | −91 |
−28 |

The last five columns are net, and count the functions that exist on one
side only: 38 only before and 27 only after, which were removed, renamed
or inlined, or are no longer inlined. Where only constants differ, each
is an offset into the parser's `P` and is 32 lower, because `P` is 32
bytes smaller (change 25). The names that differ:

- `Store::append` has the same 112 instructions for `E::Object` and
`E::Array`, and the compiler keeps one copy in `bun_js_parser`. That
copy was named after `E::Object` and is named after `E::Array`, at 173
call sites.
- The twelve `do_resolve_cares` load the address of another function
(change 35, in the last table), and five functions of `Bun.Image` call a
wrapper (change 28, below).

**What costs something.** No change adds an allocation, a lock or a
reference count, and none adds a test to the source. These are the
places where the compiled code does more than before:

- **`Binding::to_expr` is compiled once per wrapping method (change
25).** One copy in `bun_ast` (505 instructions), which called the method
through a function pointer, becomes four in `bun_js_parser` (210 to 223)
and one in `bun_bundler` (225), which call it directly or have it
inline. That is about 590 instructions of code more. Each copy is less
than half as long as the one it replaces, and a call of it loses the
indirect calls and an `expect` per array or object pattern.
`maybe_relocate_vars_to_top_level` was one copy (134) for two instances
of the parser and is two (130 each), because each calls its own
`to_expr`.
- **Around it the inliner chooses differently.** `E::Array` and
`E::Spread` were stored through `into_data_store` (115 and 111) and two
`new_expr` (77 each). They are stored through `Store::append` (112 and
108), which is inline in some parser functions and not in others, in
both directions: `parse_type_script_decorators` and `pfx_t_open_brace`
of the bundler's parser are 88 and 86 shorter, `pfx_t_open_bracket` of
one instance 56 shorter, `parse_prefix` and `parse_jsx_element` of
another 31 and 30 longer. In the bundler two `from_bump_vec` (101 and
100) are functions of their own.
- **`has_globals_of_vitest` (35) is a function of its own (change 26).**
It was inline in both `_parse`, which call it once each.
- **`Bun.Image` unpins its input through `JSValue::unpin_array_buffer`
(change 28).** Six call sites in five functions called the C++ function
through a declaration of their own. They call the wrapper that `bun_jsc`
has for it, as `node:zlib` and `node:http` do. The wrapper is one jump,
which goes where the link inlines across crates.
- **The fields of `EVP` are laid out in another order (change 18).**
`md` is a reference now, and the compiler puts it first, so the context
is at offset 8. `EVP::drop` (1 to 2), `CryptoHasher::update` and its
export for `node:crypto` (1 more each) add 8 to a pointer that they used
as it was, and `EVP::final` (40 to 43) keeps that address in one more
register. `byteLength`, `digest` and `getDigestSize` are 1 longer for
another reason: they load `md` for `EVP_MD_size`, where
`EVP_MD_CTX_size` loaded it from the context after a null test.
- **The constructor of `QuicEndpoint` goes from 557 to 635 (change
22),** with 3 branches, 3 compares and 3 call sites more. It reads its
options before it makes the cell, so when a read throws it has to free
the bind host and the `Strong` on the block list itself. Seven fields
are stored once instead of twice. It runs once per endpoint.
- **The six `uv_*` stand-ins are 1 longer (change 10):** they load the
length of their name before the call that ends the process.

**Checks.** The source makes no check that it did not make before. These
are all the other functions in which the listing shows more conditional
branches, compares or panic call sites than before, and why:

| Function | Listing | Why |
|---|---|---|
| In the printer: `FmtAdapter::write_str` and `write_char`,
`print_binding`, `print_identifier_utf16`. 15 copies in `bun_bundler`,
`bun_install`, `bun_runtime` and `bun_sourcemap_jsc`. | 22 to 38, 59 to
71, 1,122 to 1,134, 106 to 114 and 133 to 162. +1 branch, +1 compare and
−1 call per place that writes. | Change 27. Each write called
`reserve_next` and `advance_by` in `bun_js_printer`. The capacity test
of the first and the store of the second are inline now, and growing the
buffer is the only call left. The `memcpy` is the same. In `write_str`
the compiler also skips it for an empty string. |
| `FFI.toBuffer()` | 224 to 223, +1 compare | Change 6. The compiler
duplicates one compare. |

Everything else that differs:

| Change | What differs | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | `get_ipc_instance` goes from 197 to 188, with 2 calls fewer.
`Bun__closeChildIPC`, `send` and `emitHandleIPCMessage` keep their
length. | **`CHANNEL` is set after the socket is set up instead of
before.** Nothing reads it in between. When the set-up fails, no box is
made or freed. |
| 4 | `napi_create_promise` goes from 76 to 75, with one call fewer: it
reads the promise with `value()`, and **stores `*deferred` after that
read instead of before it.** | Same promise. |
| 10 | Apart from the above: the body of
`CrashHandler__unsupportedUVFunction` (46 to 6) is
`unsupported_uv_function` (45), and `uv_posix::unsupported` (2) forwards
to it. | Only on a path that ends the process. |
| 11 | `run_task::handle` goes from 3,119 to 3,101 with 3 branches, 3
calls and 3 panic sites fewer. The three `release_unrun` go from 69 to
63 with one of each fewer. | The same count goes up and down at the same
places. |
| 12 | The three `write` go from 517, 519 and 519 to 514, 516 and 516. |
The same range check, after the copy is filled instead of while it is
borrowed. |
| 13 | `native_brotli_impl::Context::do_work` goes from 53 to 45. | Same
calls of brotli. |
| 14 | Six `AresReply::parse`, one jump each, go. | The parser is called
directly. |
| 15 | `Resolver::reverse` goes from 547 to 545, with one call fewer:
for an address that does not parse it calls `on_hostent` and not the C
thunk around it. | Same error. |
| 17 | `call_general_name_free` goes from 10 to 2: it calls
`GENERAL_NAME_free` by name, and loses a null test with its panic.
`GeneralNames::drop` keeps its length and passes null where it passed
that function. | Same frees. |
| 18 | Apart from the above: `Algorithm::md` goes from 63 to 25, because
its 16 calls are tail calls. The `init` of the 8 hashers goes from 28 to
26, and `getByName`, `getFromOther` and `copy` are 2 shorter: **one call
of `EVP_MD_CTX_init` fewer each**, which `EVP_DigestInit` repeats.
`EVP::by_name` goes from 53 to 48, `tls_server_end_point_hash` from 98
to 96 with one null test fewer. | Same digests. |
| 20 | `on_new_conn` goes from 683 to 684. Two exits call
`Conn::abort_error`, which calls lsquic, where they called lsquic. The
two exits that call `Conn::abort_silent` shared a call site and have one
each. | Only when a connection is refused. |
| 23, 24 | `QuicStream::bind_raw` goes from 264 to 258 with a branch, a
call and a panic site fewer. `create` and `create_stream` are 2 shorter,
`on_new_stream` is 1 longer. `QuicEndpoint.connect()` goes from 1,032 to
1,035: the exit for a failed connect is laid out twice, so `teardown`
has 2 call sites. Four functions keep their length. | Same calls of
lsquic. The result of `create` is tested for null instead of by a tag. |
| 25 | Apart from the above: two closures per parser instance (6 and 38)
and the code in `prepare_for_visit_pass` that stored them go. |
`to_expr` on a `P` before `prepare_for_visit_pass` used to panic and now
works. Nothing does that. |
| 26 | `_parse` goes from 5,133 to 5,075 and from 5,553 to 5,477,
`_scan_imports` from 895 to 830 and from 930 to 865,
`to_lazy_export_ast` from 582 to 569, `parse_only` from 1,674 to 1,662,
the drop glue of the guard in `_parse::<true>` from 615 to 556, and each
instance of `P::init` is 4 shorter. In `bun_runtime`,
`ContextParameter::of` goes from 2,047 to 1,969 and
`write_inline_snapshots` from 2,946 to 2,732. The stack frames of the
eight callers of `P::init` named here are 2,208 to 4,736 bytes smaller.
| **One or two copies of the whole `P`, 4,344 bytes, fewer per parse.**
`write_inline_snapshots` copied `P` in pieces, and copies fewer of them.
|
| 27 | Apart from the above: `advance_by` (2) goes, and `reserve_next`
goes from 19 to 10 because it returns nothing. | Same bytes. |
| 29 | `__bun_macro_context_call` goes from 1,876 to 1,870 and its
closure from 337 to 323. | Same macro calls. |
| 34 | `Rope::append` goes from 24 to 22. In `bun_ini`, `prepare_str`
goes from 1,030 to 1,018 with 9 branches fewer, `str_to_rope` from 143
to 136 and `commit_rope_part` from 66 to 61. | Same ropes. |
| 35 | The twelve `raw_callback` (33 to 52) had the record type's thunk
inline. They go, and the twelve thunks are functions under their own
names, with the same instructions apart from change 14. | c-ares calls
the same code. |

Every function that differs and is not named above differs by 18
instructions or fewer, and has the same or a smaller number of branches,
compares and panic call sites. Changes 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 16, 19, 21, 30,
31, 32 and 33 do not show up in this comparison. What changes 1, 9, 15
and 28 do to code for Windows and macOS is not compiled on Linux.

The comparison covers x86-64 Linux only, one crate at a time. The build
that ships also inlines across crates when it links.

### The changes in detail

#### 1. ipc: `CHANNEL` holds `&'static IPCInstance`, boxed once the
transport is up

`CHANNEL` held `Option<NonNull<IPCInstance>>` and `get_ipc_instance`
returned `Option<*mut IPCInstance>`, so `send`, `close_child_ipc`,
`global_object_connected_ipc` and `get_ipc_instance` itself dereferenced
a raw pointer. A channel that came up is never freed. The only free was
`IPCInstance::deinit`, on the two paths where the socket (on Windows the
pipe) could not be set up, and it was needed only because the box was
made and published before that attempt.

`get_ipc_instance` sets the transport up on the `RefPtr<SendQueue>` it
holds and boxes it after that has succeeded: `Box::leak` gives the
`&'static IPCInstance` that `CHANNEL` stores and the function returns.
On failure it detaches the queue and the `RefPtr` drops.
`IPCInstance::new` and `deinit` are gone, and the socket group stays the
`&mut SocketGroup` that `spawn_ipc_group` returns.

What differs when it runs: `CHANNEL` is set after `from_fd` and
`set_timeout` (on Windows after `windows_configure_client`) instead of
before. Only `get_ipc_instance`, `global_object_connected_ipc` and
`global_object_has_ipc` read it, and none of them runs in between:
`us_socket_from_fd` arms the poll, links the socket and may start the
date header timer. The failing path neither allocates the box nor
touches `CHANNEL`, and it releases the queue after the warning is
printed instead of before.

The comment on the test of the failing path in spawn.ipc.test.ts named
`IPCInstance.deinit`. It says what the path does now.

#### 2. napi: `Bun__napi_check_gc` and `NapiHandleScope__escape` are
`safe fn`

Each was declared with a raw handle pointer and called in an `unsafe`
block from a safe method on `&self`, which passed its `as_mut_ptr()`.
The handle is the only pointer they take. They take it by reference, as
the `safe fn` shims over `JSGlobalObject` do:

- `Bun__napi_check_gc` reads `nm_version`, which never changes, and asks
the heap whether the current thread is doing GC work, which any thread
may ask. It can abort the process.
- `NapiHandleScope__escape` answers false once the escape slot is used
or the scope is closed. It took the value as `usize`; it takes
`JSValue`, which is `repr(transparent)` over it. The empty value is
fine: the write barrier and the visitor skip a null cell.

The other shims over `NapiEnv` stay unsafe imports: they belong on the
env's JS thread, and a `&NapiEnv` is also held on pool threads and by
the collector.

Same calls with the same arguments.

#### 3. napi: entry points take the env and scope handles as
`Option<&T>` or `&T`

The 44 N-API functions written in Rust that begin with `get_env!`,
`preamble!` or `ungated!` took `env_: *mut NapiEnv`, and `get_env!` made
the reference with `unsafe { $env.as_ref() }`. `napi_escape_handle` did
the same with its scope, `napi_ref_threadsafe_function` and
`napi_unref_threadsafe_function` with the env in a debug assertion, and
three functions that only Bun's C++ calls with `&*env_` or `as_ref()`.
`napi_open_callback_scope` and `napi_close_callback_scope` ignore their
env and get the same type.

`NapiEnv` and `NapiHandleScope` are `opaque_ffi!` types: zero-sized,
align 1 and `!Freeze`, so every non-null pointer is a valid reference to
one, and `Option<&T>` has the ABI of a nullable pointer. The parameter
types say what the macro did: null is `None` and still answers
`napi_invalid_arg`.

Call sites of the three that addons cannot reach:

- `Bun__napi_register_cleanup_zig(env: &NapiEnv)`: `this`, in the body
of the `NapiEnv` constructor (napi.h).
- `Bun__napi_run_finalizers_after_teardown_wait(env: &NapiEnv)`: `this`,
in `NapiEnv::cleanup()` (napi.h).
- `Bun__napi_enqueue_finalizer(env: Option<&NapiEnv>, ..)`, five: `this`
in `enqueueRefFinalizer` and `doFinalizer` (napi.h), an env dereferenced
just before in `drainOneRefFinalizer` (NapiRef.cpp), one that
`node_api_post_finalizer` has tested for null (napi.cpp), and
`RefPtr::get()` in `NapiFinalizer::call` (napi_finalizer.cpp), for which
it keeps its null test.

Every null test is where it was. `type napi_env` stays for the
declarations of the functions written in C++ and for the callbacks into
addons.

#### 4. napi: `Finalizer::run` and `schedule` borrow their env, and
three more borrows

`Finalizer::run(&mut self)` only reads its fields, and it made an
unbounded `&NapiEnv` from `self.env.get()`. It takes `&self` and borrows
the env from the `NapiEnvRef` it holds, so the reference lives as long
as that ref. Its three callers own the `Finalizer` (two locals, one box
just taken back) and drop `mut`.

`NapiFinalizerTask::schedule` made the same unbounded reference twice.
Both go through the `NapiEnvRef` as well. Each borrow ends with its
statement, before `self` is given away: `vm_handle()` returns a
`BorrowedRef`, which has no lifetime, and `bun_vm()` returns `&'static
VirtualMachine`. The one other use of `global_this` was
`global_this.bun_vm()`, which is `vm`. `as_mut()` reads the thread-local
itself and uses its receiver in a debug assertion only, so a release
build runs the same code.

`napi_async_work::run_from_js` dereferenced `env` a second time for
`surface_exception`. `env_ref`, made from the same pointer, is still in
use after that line: the handle scope guard holds it to the end of the
function.

`napi_create_promise` read the promise back through the raw pointer it
had just made from its box. It reads the value first, with
`JSPromiseStrong::value()`, and gives the box away after, so `*deferred`
is stored after that read instead of before it.
`get().as_value(env.to_js())` reached the same value the long way: it
downcast the value in the strong slot to `*mut JSPromise` and turned
that pointer back into a `JSValue`. Two FFI calls go (the downcast,
`JSC__JSValue__asPromise`, and `NapiEnv__globalObject` for an argument
that `as_value` ignores), and with them the `is_cell` test and the null
test in `as_promise`, the unwrap of its result and the null test in
`opaque_mut`.

`napi_node_version::release` was a `*const c_char` to a literal, which
needed an `unsafe impl Sync` for the static. It is a `&'static [u8; 5]`,
`b"node\0"`: a thin pointer at the same offset, and the struct is `Sync`
by itself. The inventory of the `vm-thread-door` lint drops the entry.

#### 5. tcc: `Config::options` is `Option<&'a ZStr>`

`Config::options` was an `Option<NonNull<ZStr>>`, "kept as a raw ptr
rather than a borrow", and `State::init` turned it back into a reference
in two `unsafe` blocks on the caller's word that the string outlives the
call. Both callers start from a `&ZStr` and build the `Config` in the
argument of `init`, and `tcc_set_options` copies what it parses, so a
borrow for the call says the same.

`Config` has a lifetime and holds the `&ZStr`. In `CompileC::compile`
the string can borrow `self.flags`, so the `*mut CompileC` for the error
handler is taken before that borrow starts instead of in the `Config`
literal. The handler only pushes to `deferred_errors`.

Same pointers and the same calls.

#### 6. ffi: no reference is made from an address only to turn it back
into one

`make_napi_env_if_needed` cast the `*mut c_void` from
`make_napi_env_for_ffi` to `&'static NapiEnv`. Its one caller hands the
result to `Function::compile`, which turned it back into an address for
`add_symbol`, where it is a symbol's value and is not dereferenced.
`'static` was true (`makeNapiEnvForFFI` returns `&out.leakRef()`, so the
allocation is never freed), but nothing used the reference as a
reference. The function returns `NonNull::new(..)` of the pointer it
got, an `Option<NonNull<c_void>>` with the same niche, and `compile`
passes `as_ptr()`. `CompileC::compile` already passes that pointer as it
comes.

The comment at `add_symbol` called the env VM-owned; it names the leaked
ref. The doc of `make_napi_env_for_ffi` called it "owned by this global"
and ended "callers in `bun_runtime` cast to `*mut NapiEnv`", which
neither caller does. It says that C++ leaks a ref, and the clause is
gone.

`to_buffer` built a `&mut [u8]` over the caller's foreign memory for
`create_buffer_with_ctx`, a private function with this one caller that
split the slice into pointer and length again for C++. Its call of
`JSBuffer__bufferFromPointerAndLengthAndDeinit` is written into
`to_buffer`, with the pointer and length that `get_ptr_slice` returned.
Debug builds lose the precondition check inside `from_raw_parts_mut`;
release builds make the same call.

The helper declared that symbol itself, so the call was made from
`bun_runtime` before too; the declaration stands at the head of
`to_buffer`. `JSValue::create_buffer_with_ctx` in `bun_jsc` makes the
same call but is neither generic nor `#[inline]`, so it would stand
between `to_buffer` and C++ wherever the linker does not inline it.

`to_array_buffer` built the same kind of slice only for
`ArrayBuffer::from_bytes`, which stores the slice's pointer, its length
in `len` and `byte_len`, and the type, and takes the other fields from
`Default`. A struct literal sets the same four fields from the pointer
and length of `get_ptr_slice` and takes the rest from `Default` too. The
`unsafe` block stays for `to_js_with_context`, an `unsafe fn`. Debug
builds lose the same check here.

`noop_bytes_deallocator` has an empty body and is not an `unsafe fn`. It
still coerces to the `unsafe extern "C" fn` pointer that the deallocator
slot holds.

#### 7. ipc: the JSON decoder's free callback takes `&Cell<bool>`

`json::decode_ipc_message` wraps an ASCII line in an external string and
gave the address of a local `bool` as the context of the string's free
callback, which set the flag through the `*mut bool` in an `unsafe`
block.

`create_external` is generic over the context and documents it as a raw
pointer or `&T`. The flag is a `Cell<bool>`, the context is
`&Cell<bool>` and the callback calls `set(true)`. The callback has two
callers: `create_external` itself when the line is too long, and
`ExternalStringImpl::freeExternalBuffer` when the string is destroyed,
with the `m_freeCtx` it stored at creation (`releaseBufferEarly` also
calls it; nothing calls that).

The `unsafe` on `create_external` stays, and its comment names the flag
too: the string carries the lifetime of neither borrow.

The same byte is stored and read back.

#### 8. sql: the `ssl_config_from_js` and `timer_heap` hooks are safe
`fn`s

`SqlRuntimeHooks::ssl_config_from_js` was an `unsafe fn(&JSGlobalObject,
JSValue)` and its one call sat in an `unsafe` block whose comment named
no obligation ("may run JS getters / throw"). The one implementation
calls `SSLConfig::from_js` and boxes the result, all safe. The field is
a `fn`, the implementation and the call are safe.

`timer_heap` was an `unsafe fn(*mut VirtualMachine) -> *mut c_void` and
states no obligation either: the one implementation ignores its argument
and calls the safe `timer_all()`. The field and the implementation are a
`fn`. The block at its one call stays, for the dereference of the
result.

An `unsafe fn` does not coerce to a `fn` field, so an implementation of
either hook has to be safe. The same indirect calls.

#### 9. webview: both `spawn` functions take `&VirtualMachine`

`ChromeProcess::spawn` and the macOS `HostProcess::spawn` are safe
functions that took `vm: *mut VirtualMachine` and dereferenced it twice.
Each has one caller, which holds a `&JSGlobalObject`:
`Bun__Chrome__ensure` passed `bun_vm_ptr()`, and
`Bun__WebViewHost__ensure` cast the `&'static VirtualMachine` from
`bun_vm()` to `*mut`.

Both callers pass `global.bun_vm()`. `VirtualMachine::event_loop` and
`EventLoopHandle::init` are safe functions, so that block goes in each.
The block that dereferences the raw `transpiler.env` stays. Its comment
in ChromeProcess.rs called `map` a `&mut Map` slot; it is a field of the
loader, and the sentence goes.

In a release build `bun_vm()` and `bun_vm_ptr()` are the same read of
the thread-local, so the same code runs.

#### 10. crash_handler: `uv_posix` calls `unsupported_uv_function` as a
Rust function

`uv_posix::unsupported` reached the crash handler, which is Rust,
through its C symbol. It declared `CrashHandler__unsupportedUVFunction`
itself, returning `()` where the definition returns `!`, called it in an
`unsafe` block with the pointer of its `&'static CStr`, and put
`unreachable!` after the call.

The body of the symbol moves into `pub fn
unsupported_uv_function(name_bytes: &'static [u8]) -> !`. The symbol,
which `__bun_throw_not_implemented` in uv-posix-polyfills.c calls, keeps
its `cstr` and calls that function. `uv_posix` calls it too and has no
declaration of its own. Only the C symbol needed the NUL terminator, so
`unsupported`, `handle_type` and `ref_state` take the name as `&'static
[u8]`, and the six literals are `b"uv_close"` and so on.

The literals are one byte shorter. The rest differs only on a path that
ends the process: from `uv_posix` the length of the name comes with the
slice instead of from a `strlen`, which is one more instruction before
the call in each of the six. From C the counter is bumped after the
`strlen` instead of before it, and the reported stack starts one frame
deeper unless the function is inlined into the symbol.

#### 11. node:zlib: the write's completion owns its ref as a `RefPtr<T>`

`run_from_js_thread` and `release_unrun` were `unsafe fn(*mut T)`. Each
turned the pointer into a `ParentRef` behind an `expect` and released
the ref that `write()` took with `unsafe { T::deref(this_ptr) }`, once
on each of their four exits.

Both now take `RefPtr<T>`, read the stream through it and `drop` it
where the `deref` was, after `poll_ref.unref`. Their two callers, the
dispatch arm and `Taskable::release_unrun`, keep one `unsafe` block
each: `RefPtr::from_raw` on the queued pointer, which adds no ref.
`RefPtr::drop` calls `rc_deref`, which the derive forwards to the same
`CellRefCounted::deref`, so every path still releases exactly one ref.
The two `expect` null tests are gone.

#### 12. node:zlib: `borrow_input_copy` borrows the copy through
`JsCell::get`

The slice was taken inside the `with_mut` closure and rebuilt with
`slice::from_raw_parts` to get it out of the closure's `&mut` borrow.

The closure now only fills the copy and says whether the allocation
worked. The slice is taken afterwards from `input_copy().get()`, a
shared borrow that lasts as long as `&self`, which is what the signature
already promised. The range check is the same one `get(range)`, moved
after the closure. `write()` does not touch `input_copy` between this
call and `set_buffers`.

#### 13. node:zlib: `NativeBrotli` passes `&raw mut self.next_in` and
keeps `last_result` as a `c_int`

`do_work` copied `next_in` into a local, passed the local's address to
brotli and then advanced the field with `self.next_in.add(local -
self.next_in)`, in both modes. It now passes the address of the field,
as it does for `next_out`. brotli only advances `*next_in` and does not
keep the address.

`last_result` was a union of the encoder's `c_int` and the decoder's
`BrotliDecoderResult`, read with `unsafe` in three places. It is a
`c_int`: the decode arm stores `result as c_int` and compares the enum
value it still holds, and `get_error_info` compares with
`needs_more_input as c_int`. The slot keeps its size and its initial
value 0. The union had no other user.

#### 14. c-ares: `AresReply` names its parser as an associated const

`AresReply::parse` was an `unsafe fn` whose six impls each forwarded
their three arguments to the matching `ares_parse_*_reply` extern from
inside an `unsafe` block.

The trait now has `const PARSE: unsafe extern "C" fn(..)`, the shape
`HostentWithTtlsHandler::PARSE` has, and each impl names its extern. The
six externs have exactly that signature. `ares_reply_callback`, the only
caller, keeps its `unsafe` block and calls `(R::PARSE)(..)`, which is a
direct call to the C function once the callback is monomorphised.

#### 15. c-ares: `get_sockaddr` and `get_name_info` take
`sockaddr_storage`

`get_sockaddr` took `&mut sockaddr`, 16 bytes, and wrote a 28-byte
`sockaddr_in6` through it. Its one caller,
`Resolver::global_lookup_service`, cast its `sockaddr_storage` to that
type in an `unsafe` block, twice. Both functions now take the
`sockaddr_storage` the caller has. `get_name_info` takes it shared:
`ares_getnameinfo` has `const struct sockaddr *` and copies the address.
The first cast block in dns.rs goes, the second shrinks to `&mut
*request`.

Inside `get_sockaddr`, the two address stores went through `(&raw mut
field).cast().write(..)`. They assign `sin_addr.s_addr` and
`sin6_addr.s6_addr`, which libc and `bun_windows_sys::ws2_32` both name
so: the same 4-byte and 16-byte stores.

`get_host_by_addr` reported an unparsable address by calling its own C
thunk with `ARES_ENOTIMP`. The thunk only turns the pointer back into
`&mut T` and the status into `Some(Error::ENOTIMP)`, so it calls
`ctx.on_hostent` with that. Only `Error::ENOTIMP` names `ARES_ENOTIMP`
now, so it is a plain `const` like its neighbours that only the enum
names.

The comment on the `winsock` import in cares_sys is cut to the one line
that still holds.

#### 16. boringssl: `Bun__X509__checkHost` types its certificate and its
out-parameter

`x509` was a `*mut X509` turned into a reference with `unsafe { as_mut()
}`, and `out_peer` a `*mut String` that `set_peer` tested for null and
wrote with `unsafe { out_peer.write(..) }`.

They are `Option<&mut X509>` and `Option<&mut MaybeUninit<String>>`: the
same two null tests, and `MaybeUninit::write` stores without dropping,
as `ptr::write` did. The function stays `unsafe` for `host_ptr`.

Its one caller is `X509View::checkHost` in ncrypto.cpp. It returns early
when `cert_` is null, and passes either null or the address of a local
`BunString` that it initialises to the empty string and does not touch
during the call. `X509` is an opaque zero-sized `!Unpin` type, so `&mut
X509` claims nothing about the certificate's memory.

#### 17. boringssl_sys: `X509_get_subject_name` is a `safe fn`, and a
stack free without fn-pointer transmutes

`X509_get_subject_name` (crypto/x509/x509_cmp.cc:69) returns the address
of a member and reads nothing. It is a `safe fn` over `&X509`.
`common_names` is its only Rust caller.

`GeneralNames::drop` transmuted `GENERAL_NAME_free` to `fn(*mut c_void)`
and passed it to `sk_pop_free_ex` as `free_func`, and its trampoline
unwrapped that argument and transmuted it back before calling it.
`OPENSSL_sk_pop_free_ex` (crypto/stack/stack.cc:112) only passes
`free_func` on to the trampoline, so `drop` passes `None` and the
trampoline calls `GENERAL_NAME_free` by name. That removes two
transmutes and an `expect`, and the indirect call per element becomes a
direct one.

#### 18. boringssl_sys: the digest getters return `&'static EVP_MD`, and
`EVP_DigestInit` is a `safe fn`

The 16 `EVP_*()` getters returned `*const EVP_MD`, so `EVP::init` was a
safe fn with a `# Safety` section about its `md` pointer. Each getter
returns the address of a static object
(crypto/fipsmodule/digest/digests.cc.inc through `DEFINE_DATA` in
delocate.h:62, and crypto/digest/digest_extra.cc:276, 301, 326, 359, 393
and 416), so they return `&'static EVP_MD`.

`EVP_get_digestbyname` (digest_extra.cc:218) and `EVP_get_digestbynid`
(:79) walk one table (:43) and return what one of these getters or
`EVP_md5_sha1` returns, or null. `EVP_md5_sha1` (:455) returns the
address of a constant at file scope too. Both return `Option<&'static
EVP_MD>`. `Algorithm::md()` and the `EVP::md` field follow.
`Option<&EVP_MD>` is one word where `Option<*const EVP_MD>` was two.

A result that goes on to a `*const EVP_MD` parameter coerces, so those
calls are unchanged. Two callers tested a result for null.
`EVP::by_name` matches on the `Option`. In
`X509::tls_server_end_point_hash` the test stood after a `match` with an
`EVP_sha256()` arm and an `EVP_get_digestbynid()` arm. The second arm
ends in `?` and the test goes, so that arm has one null test as before
and the first has none.

`EVP_DigestInit` (crypto/fipsmodule/digest/digest.cc.inc:162) starts
with `EVP_MD_CTX_init`, which overwrites the three pointers of the
context before anything reads them, then calls `EVP_DigestInit_ex`,
which keeps `type` in `ctx->digest` (:157). It becomes `safe fn(&mut
EVP_MD_CTX, &'static EVP_MD)`. `EVP::init` calls it instead of
`EVP_MD_CTX_init` followed by `EVP_DigestInit_ex`: the same work in one
call. The `new_evp!` hashers in sha.rs called `EVP_MD_CTX_init` and then
`EVP_DigestInit`. They lose the first call and the block around the
second: one FFI call fewer per `init`, for the 8 types.
`EVP_MD_CTX_init` has no Rust caller left and its declaration goes.

bun-sema links no BoringSSL and has weak stand-ins in
src/sema/standalone/native_libraries.rs: its `EVP_sha256` (:167) returns
the address of a static, and its `EVP_DigestInit` (:199) aborts on any
other `type_` and overwrites the whole context, so both keep what the
signatures promise. Its `EVP_MD_CTX_init` (:187) stays, because a test
in that file calls it.

`EVP::size` asked `EVP_MD_CTX_size(&self.ctx)`, which is
`EVP_MD_size(ctx->digest)` after a null test. `ctx.digest` is `self.md`
from `init` on, so it asks the new `safe fn EVP_MD_size(&EVP_MD)`
(digest.cc.inc:36). `ctx` was a `pub` field that nothing outside EVP.rs
used. It is private, so only EVP.rs can break that equality.
`EVP_MD_CTX_size` has no caller left and its declaration goes.
`EVP_MD_do_all_sorted` has no caller either, and its declaration goes
too. The comment on `md` repeated its type and goes. `EVP::reset` is
unchanged.

#### 19. net: `BlockList__onStructuredCloneDestroy` takes the
`RefPtr<BlockList>` it releases

The hook was `unsafe extern "C" fn(*mut c_void)` and ended in `unsafe {
BlockList::deref(ptr.cast()) }`, the only use of that inherent `unsafe
fn deref`.

It now takes `bun_ptr::RefPtr<BlockList>` by value, which is
`repr(transparent)` over `NonNull`, so C++ passes the same pointer. It
removes the table entry under the lock as before and then drops the
`RefPtr`, which calls the same `ThreadSafeRefCount::deref`: one ref down
per call, matching the one ref up in
`BlockList__onStructuredCloneSerialize`. `BlockList::deref` goes.

SerializedScriptValue.cpp calls it in two places, the destructor (line
4300) and `releaseSerializedRefs` in `create` (line 4957). Both walk a
vector whose only `append` (line 1440) stores the `blockList->wrapped()`
that the line before passed to the serialize hook as `&BlockList`, and
each vector is walked once.

#### 20. node:quic: `on_new_conn` uses the `Conn` it already has

`QuicEndpoint::on_new_conn` wraps lsquic's pointer in a `Conn` at its
top. Two later exits wrapped the same pointer again with `unsafe {
Conn::from_raw }` and a null test to call `abort_silent`, and two more
called `lsquic_conn_abort_error` on the raw pointer. All four use the
first `Conn`.

`Conn::abort_error` takes a `&CStr`, so the two refusals pass `c""`
where they passed null. `lsquic_conn_abort_error` (lsquic_conn.c:208)
replaces a null reason with `""`, so the frame is the same. The argument
is now the address of a constant instead of zero.

No other crate names `lsquic_conn_abort_error`, so the declaration is
private.

#### 21. node:quic: the loop-driver callbacks take `&QuicEndpoint`;
`lookup_cert` stays typed

`Bun__nodeQuic__drainEndpoint` and `Bun__nodeQuic__processEndpoint` were
`unsafe extern "C" fn(*mut c_void)` that cast the pointer through
`unsafe fn from_driver_owner` and called `run_driver_pass(&self)`. They
take `&QuicEndpoint`, and `from_driver_owner` goes.

Each has one call site, node_quic_shim.c:601 and :615, both under `if
(d->owner)`. `owner` is written only by `us_nq_loop_register` (:571),
whose one caller, `link_loop_driver`, passes `from_ref(self)`.
`unlink_loop_driver` takes the node off the list before the endpoint can
be freed. A walk that is under way has read its successor already, so it
can still call an endpoint that the pass before it closed and unlinked;
`run_driver_pass` returns at once for it, as before. The reference lives
exactly as long as the `&self` of `run_driver_pass` did.

`lookup_cert` already held `this: &QuicEndpoint` and still ended in
`unsafe { get_ssl_ctx(owner, local) }`, which turned the `void*` back
into the same reference behind a second null test. The body of
`get_ssl_ctx` moves to `fn server_ssl_ctx(&self)`, and both callbacks
call it.

`lookup_cert` was the one use of the form `ctx: *mut c_void as r: &T` of
`lsquic_callback!`. The two arms for that form were otherwise only what
the two short arms forwarded to, so the short arms hold the expansion
themselves and the forwarding goes. No other use of the macro changes.

#### 22. node:quic: `QuicEndpoint::constructor` reads its options before
it creates the cell

The constructor built the struct with defaults, moved it into its JS
cell, and then stored each option it read through the raw payload
pointer, in six `unsafe { (*raw).field.set(..) }` blocks.

It now reads the options into locals first and puts them in the struct
literal, so seven fields are stored once instead of twice. The two
blocks that need the cell's address or the wrapper (the vtable, and
`state`/`stats`) stay.

What changes in order: the six property reads (`address`, `blockList`,
`blockListPolicy`, `disableStatelessReset`, `statelessResetBurst`,
`statelessResetRate`) keep their order and their conversions, but run
before the cell and the boxed vtable are allocated instead of after. If
one of them throws, the cell and the vtable are never allocated, and the
default bind host and the `Strong` on the block list are freed on return
instead of when the GC finalizes the abandoned cell. Nothing could reach
that cell, and its `Drop` has nothing to release at that point. The one
caller, `new Endpoint_(options)` in quic.ts, passes a fresh
null-prototype object of data properties.

#### 23. node:quic: `QuicSession::create` and `QuicStream::create`
return the reference they make

Both constructors form `&*payload` to finish setting the object up and
then returned the raw pointer, so each caller went back through `unsafe
{ (*session).x() }` with "was just created" as the reason.

They return `&'a Self`, and `'a` is the borrow of the owner.
`QuicSession::create` takes `endpoint: &'a QuicEndpoint`,
`QuicStream::create` takes `session: &'a QuicSession`, and
`create_stream` borrows from `&self` and passes the reference on.
`global` has a lifetime of its own. Both constructors took the owner as
`*mut`, and all five call sites passed `from_ref(self).cast_mut()`. They
pass `self`, and the cast stands at the one place in each constructor
that stores the back-pointer. In every caller the owner is the caller's
own `&self`, so no body can choose a longer `'a`. That is how
`live_session` and `endpoint_ref` bound what they return.

`apply_server_session_options` takes `&QuicSession`. Seven blocks go: in
`on_new_conn`, `apply_server_session_options`, `connect` and
`connect_verneg_probe`, two in `on_remote_stream` and one in
`open_stream`. The large block in `connect` shrinks to the
`lsquic_conn_set_ctx` call.

The payload belongs to the GC, and the compiler does not check that it
lives for `'a`. `create` roots the wrapper with `set_strong` before it
returns, and only `teardown` (for a stream, also `release_close_root`)
undoes that. After that the frame that has the reference holds the cell,
which is what `JsWrapper::payload_ref` asks of its caller. Of the
callers only `connect` tears the session down, and it returns right
after. Nothing forms a `&mut` to either payload before the sweeper drops
it.

Where a pointer is stored (`sessions`, `pending_new_sessions`,
`provisional`, `pending_verneg`, `streams`, the conn and stream ctx, the
two back-pointers) it is `ptr::from_ref(x).cast_mut()`, the form these
files use for `self`. Every use of those pointers forms `&T`. The
operations and their order are unchanged.

#### 24. node:quic: a session holds `Option<Conn>` and a stream holds
`Option<Stream>`

`QuicSession::conn` and `QuicStream::raw` were `Cell<*mut _>`. Nine
places wrapped the field again with `unsafe { from_raw(..) }` before
using it, among them the safe accessors `conn()` and `ls()`. Ten safe
functions took a raw lsquic pointer that they or a later function
trusted: `bind_conn`, `cache_sockaddrs`, `conn_peer_addr`,
`on_remote_stream`, `bind_raw`, `QuicEndpoint::on_new_conn`,
`defer_stream_abort`, `QuicSession::create`, `create_stream` and
`QuicStream::create`. `bind_conn`, `on_remote_stream` and `bind_raw`
wrapped their parameter, and `connect` wrapped at its end the pointer it
had tested for null further up.

The fields are `Cell<Option<Conn>>` and `Cell<Option<Stream>>`, and
those ten functions take the handle or an `Option` of it. 13 blocks go
and none is added. In `connect`, `from_raw` joins the block that calls
`lsquic_engine_connect`. The block in `QuicEndpoint::on_new_conn` moves
into the `on_new_conn` callback with its SAFETY comment. What is left to
prove sits where lsquic hands a pointer over (the `on_new_conn`
callback, `connect`, `on_new_stream`, `on_stream_read`). The fields are
cleared where they were set to null. `DeferredAbort::ls` stays a raw
pointer with its own `from_raw`, because what keeps it alive is a
different argument. `defer_stream_abort` stores `ls.raw()` in it.

In `connect` the local `Conn` is used after `apply_options`, as the raw
pointer was. The SAFETY comment at `from_raw` says why no script runs in
between when quic.ts calls.

`Conn` and `Stream` hold a `NonNull` and are `repr(transparent)`, so the
`Option` is one pointer with null as `None`. Each `is_null()` becomes
`is_none()`, `is_some()` or `if let Some`, one for one. Six null tests
go:

- `connect` tested the pointer from `lsquic_engine_connect`, and again
in `from_raw` at its end.
- `bind_conn` matched on `from_raw` of its parameter.
- `on_remote_stream` did the same.
- `refresh_conn_stats` tested the field and then `from_raw` of it.
- `bind_raw` had `from_raw(..).expect(..)`. Its panic path goes too.
- The `on_new_conn` callback tested its pointer, and
`QuicEndpoint::on_new_conn` tested it again in `from_raw`.

`report_close` matches on the field instead of testing it in a guard and
reading it again. 39 lines in lsquic_sys pass `self.0.as_ptr()`. `Conn`
gains `raw()`, which `Stream` had. The other operations and their order
are unchanged.

#### 25. ast: `Binding::to_expr` takes `&mut C` and the method that
wraps an identifier

`to_expr` took a `*mut c_void` context and a `ToExprWrapper`: a back
reference to the arena and a fn pointer to a trampoline that cast the
context back to `&mut P` or `&mut ExportHoist`. All four call sites hold
that `&mut` and the arena, so they pass both, and name the method
(`Self::wrap_identifier_namespace`, `Self::wrap_identifier_hoisting`,
`ExportHoist::wrap_identifier`) instead of a trampoline around it.

`to_expr` is generic over the context and the function. The function is
a zero-sized fn item, so nothing is passed for it and the call to it is
direct.

The cost is code size: `to_expr` is compiled once per method (four
copies in bun_js_parser, one in bun_bundler) and not once in bun_ast. In
a `--release` build bun_js_parser grows by 526 instructions in 343,000
and bun_bundler by 78, and bun_ast shrinks by 553.

`ToExprWrapper` goes away, and with it the `expect` on its arena for
every array and object pattern, the two fields of `P` that held it (32
bytes) and the code in `prepare_for_visit_pass` that filled them. One
behaviour differs: `to_expr` on a `P` before `prepare_for_visit_pass`
used to panic and now works.

#### 26. js_parser: `P::init` returns the `&mut P` it wrote, and
`init_p!` binds it

`P::init(out: &mut MaybeUninit<P>, ..)` returned `Result<(), Error>`.
`init_p!` called it, moved the slot into a drop guard and gave the guard
to the caller. Each of the four users of the macro then took its `&mut
P` out with `unsafe { __p.assume_init_mut() }`, and so did the fifth
caller of `P::init`, the copy of the macro that
runtime/test_runner/snapshot.rs writes out by hand because the macro is
local to its crate.

`init` cannot fail: its body has no `?`, `return`, `Err`, `unwrap`,
`expect` or `panic!`. And `MaybeUninit::write` returns the reference the
callers want. So the signature is

```
pub fn init<'o>(out: &'o mut MaybeUninit<Self>, ..) -> &'o mut Self
```

The guard holds that reference and the macro binds the caller's `p` to
it. The slot and the guard are locals of the expansion, which the caller
cannot name. The guard's closure runs `drop_in_place` on the reference,
which is what `assume_init_drop` does. snapshot.rs does the same by
hand: its guard type `InitializedParser` holds the reference, and its
`Drop` runs `drop_in_place`. Five `unsafe` blocks go, and with the `?`
the macro's hidden early return.

Compiled code, in a `--release` build of bun_js_parser (default flags,
no LTO), the parent of the commit before this one against this commit,
so with the 32 bytes that that commit takes off `P`:

- Moving the slot into the guard was a `memcpy` of the whole `P` (4344
bytes) in every caller. `_parse::<false>` and both `_scan_imports`
copied it a second time to drop it. All eight copies are gone.
- Stack frames: `_parse::<false>` 13240 to 11016 bytes, `_parse::<true>`
12856 to 10648, `_scan_imports` 9480 to 5176, `to_lazy_export_ast` 10008
to 5816.
- Instructions: `_parse::<false>` 5133 to 5075, `_parse::<true>` 5553 to
5477, `_scan_imports::<false>` 895 to 830, `to_lazy_export_ast` 582 to
569, and 4 fewer in each of the four instances of `init`.
- `init` returns its first argument, and LLVM sees that. In the five
callers that were read (both `_parse`, both `_scan_imports`,
`to_lazy_export_ast`) the code after the call ignores the returned
register and addresses `p`'s fields off the stack pointer, as before,
without a spilled pointer to `p`.
- `P` is dropped as before: inline in `_scan_imports`, by a call to its
drop glue in `_parse::<false>` and `to_lazy_export_ast`, and by a call
to the guard's drop glue in `_parse::<true>`.

No cost was found in the assembly. Run time was not measured.

#### 27. js_printer: the three `write_reserved` callers use
`print_slice`

`WriterTrait::write_reserved` got a raw pointer to `n` spare bytes from
`reserve`, copied the bytes there and committed them with `advance`. On
`BufferWriter`, the only `WriterContext`, that is `Vec::reserve`, a copy
and `set_len`, which is what `print_slice` does through
`Vec::extend_from_slice`. The three callers use `print_slice`, two of
them through `self.print` like the code around them, and
`write_reserved`, `advance` and `advance_by` go away.

`reserve` has two more callers, `print_ast` and
`print_with_writer_and_platform`, which pre-size the buffer and ignore
the pointer, so `reserve` and `reserve_next` stay and return nothing.

`print_slice` is `#[inline]` down to the `Vec`. `reserve_next` and
`advance_by` are not, and the printer is instantiated in other crates,
so without LTO each `write_reserved` made two calls into bun_js_printer.

#### 28. image, aot, mimalloc: imports that only write their
out-parameters are `safe fn`

Four imported functions took raw pointers to locals of the caller, and
every call was an `unsafe` block. Typed as references, the signature
says that the pointers are valid:

- `JSC__JSValue__borrowBytesForOffThread` (bindings.cpp) writes
`*out_ptr` and `*out_len`, or neither, and reads neither.
- `tj3GetScalingFactors` (turbojpeg.c) stores a constant in `*n` and
returns its static table.
- `Bun__AOT__initializeOptions` (BunAOTCompile.cpp) calls
`WTF::initialize()`, which is a `call_once`, and assigns
`makeDefaultCompileOptions()`: zeroes, three integers, a double and two
enumerators of enums generated from the schema that also generates the
Rust type. One of the integers comes from
`WTF::numberOfProcessorCores()`, which caches its answer in a plain
`static int`; two first calls at once both store the same value, and
safe Rust could already make them through `EngineOptions::new`.
- `mi_process_info` (mimalloc, src/util/stats.c) tests each of its eight
pointers for null before it writes through it, so they are `Option<&mut
usize>`.

`&mut T` and `Option<&mut T>` are passed like the pointers they replace.

Image.rs also had its own declaration of
`JSC__JSValue__unpinArrayBuffer`. bun_jsc declares that function `safe`
and wraps it as `JSValue::unpin_array_buffer`, which other files of
bun_runtime call. The two calls in Image.rs use the wrapper. That is the
removal of a duplicate declaration, not a proof: the compiler checks
nothing new at those two sites, and the C++ function still wants a value
that was pinned. In Image.rs that holds by construction, because `Pin`'s
field is private and a `Pin` is built only for a result of 2.

#### 29. js_parser_jsc: `MacroContext::call` borrows `self.macros` and
`self.bump`

`call` turned the map entry and the arena into `*const Macro` and
`*const Arena` "so the closure does not extend `&mut self`", and the
closure made references of them again with two `unsafe` blocks.

Both are borrows of one field each. What else `call` touches while they
live is other fields (`self.javascript_object`, and before that
`self.env` and `self.transform_options`), so the borrow checker accepts
`&Macro` and `&Arena` as they are. `call` holds `&mut self` across the
macro's JS as before, and `Runner::run` got the same two shared
references.

`disabled` and `vm` were copied out of the entry "so the borrow can be
released". They are read through `macro_`, `vm` after the `disabled`
test and not before it.

#### 30. ast, sql_jsc: remove three `unsafe impl Send`/`Sync` that
nothing needs

`JsonTape` is five `Vec<_, TapeAlloc>` and a fieldless enum. `TapeAlloc`
and what the element types hold (`StoreStr`, `StoreRef<ObjectJSON>`,
`StoreRef<ArrayJSON>`) have `Send` and `Sync` impls of their own, none
behind a `cfg`, so `JsonTape` is `Send + Sync` as an auto trait and its
two impls said nothing more.

sql_jsc's handle to the runtime's `SSLConfig` was declared `Send`. No
code asks for that. The type is not named outside the crate, and none of
its four holders looks at the bound:

- `MySQLConnection` sits in `JSMySQLConnection` as a
`JsCell<MySQLConnection>`, and `JsCell<T>` is `Send + Sync` for every
`T`.
- `PostgresSQLConnection` and `ConnectParams` hold an `Rc<SSLConfig>`,
which is never `Send`.
- `ConnectionCtorArgs` is `pub(crate)`, and nothing in the crate puts a
bound on it.

`Send` occurs nowhere else in the code of sql_jsc or sql, and the crate
has no platform `cfg`. Without the impl the handle is `!Send`, like the
`NonNull` in it.

The entry for src/sql_jsc/jsc.rs leaves vm-thread-door.inventory.json.

#### 31. css: two needless `unsafe` in values/ident.rs

`IdentOrRef::as_ident` built a `&[u8]` with `from_raw_parts` only to
turn it into the `*const [u8]` that `Ident` stores.
`slice_from_raw_parts` builds that pointer and no reference.

`arena_slice_newtype!` gave its three types an `unsafe fn as_slice` that
calls the safe `v()`. It has no caller.

#### 32. valkey, image, sql_jsc, ast: `&Self` guards, `&Blob`,
`&Symbol`, a `const` array

- `JSValkeyClient::on_valkey_connect` put `self.as_ctx_ptr()` in its
drop guard and dereferenced it there. Both calls in the guard take
`&self`, and `&Self` is `Copy`, so the guard holds `self`. The eight
other drop guards in js_valkey.rs held `BackRef::new(self)` (or `this`)
for the same kind of call. They hold the plain reference too, with no
other change.
- `BlobReadChain::start` made a `&mut Blob` of what `as_::<Blob>()`
returned and only called `read_bytes_to_handler(&self, ..)` on it, which
can run the handler, and through it JS, before it returns.
`as_class_ref` is `as_` plus the shared dereference, so the same tests
run.
- `CachedStructure::build_from_columns` made its array of `MaybeUninit`
with `MaybeUninit::uninit().assume_init()`. `[const { .. }; 70]` is the
safe spelling. In an optimised build neither form writes anything; at
opt-level 0 (the debug build) the old form copied the whole array with a
`memcpy` and the new one fills it with a `memset`, 70 × 32 = 2240 bytes
either way.
- `Symbol::merge_contents_with` only reads `old`, so it takes `&Symbol`.
No `unsafe` goes away with this one: its caller makes both references
from raw pointers.

#### 33. aot, md: three byte views go through `bun_core::slice_as_bytes`

`OutputSlice::put_words` (`&[u32]`), the test helper `bytes_of`
(`&[u64]`) and the markdown parser's copy of `current_block_lines` into
`block_bytes` (`&[VerbatimLine]`) each built the `&[u8]` with
`from_raw_parts`. `slice_as_bytes` is that same expression,
`#[inline(always)]`, behind the bound `T: NoUninit`.

`bytes_of` would only be another name for it, so it goes and its four
call sites, all in tests, call `slice_as_bytes`.

`VerbatimLine` (`#[repr(C)]`, three `u32`) gets the bound from
`impl_no_uninit!`, which compiles only if rustc can prove that the type
has no padding.

#### 34. ast: `Rope<'a>` links its segments with `Option<&'a mut
Rope<'a>>`

`Rope::next` was a `*mut Rope`. `append` walked the chain through
`StoreRef`, and `next_ref` turned the pointer into a `&'a Rope` of any
lifetime with an `unsafe` block for `get_or_put_object`.

Every segment is allocated in the arena that the head is allocated in
(`ropealloc` in the INI parser; `bun init` has a single segment), so the
link is a `&'a mut` into that arena. `append` walks a `&mut Option<..>`
cursor, and `get_or_put_object` reads `rope.next.as_deref()`.

`append` returned `Result<*mut Rope, AllocError>`, always `Ok`, and its
three call sites dropped the pointer. It returns nothing.

The null niche keeps the layout. In a `--release` build of bun_ast,
`get_or_put_object` compiles to the same instructions and `append` loses
the two that built its return value.

#### 35. c-ares: `ResolveHandler` names its callback as an associated
const

`ResolveHandler::raw_callback` was an `unsafe extern "C" fn` in the
trait. Its one impl, for `ResolveInfoRequest<T>`, forwarded its five
arguments to `T::RAW_CALLBACK` from inside an `unsafe` block.

The trait now has `const RAW_CALLBACK: unsafe extern "C" fn(..)`, the
shape `CAresRecordType::RAW_CALLBACK` and `AresReply::PARSE` have, and
the impl names `T::RAW_CALLBACK`. `Channel::resolve`, the only user,
keeps its two `unsafe` blocks: it calls the constant for a bad name and
hands it to `ares_query` otherwise. c-ares then calls the record type's
thunk itself, and not a thunk that calls it.

### How did you verify your code works?

- **Static checks on the final commits:** `cargo fmt --check`, `cargo
clippy --workspace` (0 warnings), the source lints and `cargo check
--workspace --release` on Linux, and `cargo check --workspace --release`
for `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc`, `aarch64-apple-darwin` and
`x86_64-unknown-freebsd`, because four changes touch code that Linux
does not compile.
- **Assembly:** the comparison above.
- **After the assembly comparison and the tests had run,** three more
commits went into #47895, which is under these, and a rebase brought in
one more commit of `main` (#47900). Together they touch 17 files. This
PR touches one of them, Image.rs, in other functions, and all 35 patches
here stayed as they were. Then changes 2 and 17 were narrowed: six
imports that they had marked `safe fn` stay unsafe imports and are
called as on `main`. I compared the release assembly of all crates
before and after that, and no function differs. The static checks ran
last.
- **30 test files on the final code,** on a debug build with ASAN, all
started at once and each stopped after 50 seconds.
- 24 files of Bun's own tests pass completely, 3,137 tests:
`macro-test`, `css.test.ts`, `image.test.ts`, `image-adversarial`,
`bun-cryptohasher`, `x509`, `node-https-checkServerIdentity`,
`blocklist-gc`, `napi-value-ffi`, `cc.test.ts` and `ptr-byte-offset` of
`bun:ffi`, `ini.test.ts`, `valkey-gc`, 4 files on IPC (`spawn.ipc`,
`spawn-ipc-gc`, `bun-ipc-inherit`, `child_process_ipc`), 4 of
`test/js/node/zlib` and 3 of `test/js/node/quic`.
- 4 of Node's own tests for `node:quic` pass: `test-quic-blocklist`,
`test-quic-connection-limits`, `test-quic-endpoint-busy` and
`test-quic-internal-endpoint-options`.
- `node-dns.test.js` passes 144 tests and fails 28, the same 28 as on a
debug build without these commits. They need a DNS server, which I did
not have.
- `snapshot.test.ts` was stopped at 50 seconds, also when it ran alone.
No test had failed by then. Its group `inline snapshots`, which runs the
code that change 26 touches in snapshot.rs, passes when run by name: 35
tests, and 1 that the file skips.
- **8 more files for the parser, the printer and their users,** run the
same way.
- 6 pass completely, 964 tests: `transpiler.test.js`, `decorators`,
`decorator-metadata`, `es-decorators`, and `vitest-flavor` and
`expect-deferred`, whose callbacks go through `ContextParameter::of`.
- `bake/dev/esm.test.ts`, for the bundler's `to_expr`, passes 12 tests
and fails 7, the same 7 as on a debug build without these commits. They
need `happy-dom`, which I did not have.
  - `ffi.test.js` was stopped at 50 seconds. No test had failed by then.


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