printer: let the backslash ahead of an escaped character start the escape by robobun · Pull Request #48064 · oven-sh/bun

robobun · 2026-11-07T04:02:40Z

Fixes #26785

Problem

/\é/.test("é") is false, /^[a-z\é]+$/.test("a09") is true, and a module with /[a-\ÿ]/ does not load. A tag over \é gets \u00E9 as its cooked string. Two npm packages return wrong text (Notes).
For the Bun target, four loops keep the backslash ahead of a character that they escape: /\\u00E9/. They are print_reg_exp_literal, print_raw_template_literal (src/js_printer/lib.rs), regexp_pattern_as_printed (src/aot/lower/context.rs) and the regexp arm of src/aot/lower/quoted_text.rs.

Fix

bun_core::printer::write_raw_text_ascii replaces the four loops. The last backslash of an odd run becomes the first byte of the escape: /\u00E9/. In a template, U+2028 or U+2029 behind it is a line continuation.
Verified: new tests in template-literal.test.ts, runtime-transpiler.test.ts and test/aot fail on main. The Notes list the other suites.
Self-reviewed: 35 concerns raised, 34 addressed. Rejected: one escape spelling for both kinds (it changes templates without the bug).

Background

The runtime loads printed code as an 8-bit string, so this text is printed in ASCII.
This is an interim fix inside that escaping. Preserve non-ASCII in regex .source and tagged template .raw #33866 prints the text as written (the design of Preserve non-ASCII in tagged template literals and regex source #28214) and removes this routine.
Considered a look-behind in each loop: four copies of the rule stay. --aot got this bug from a copy.

Downsides

.text grows by 1,792 bytes. A backslash and non-ASCII pair costs 26 to 38 more instructions. Other measured classes cost no more, within 1 instruction.
Each transpiler cache entry is built again once. A --target=bun bundle built earlier keeps the wrong text.
Some text that Node refuses is accepted after printing (/(?<\é>a)/). .source still holds escape text.

Notes

What is printed (b = one backslash, E = U+00E9)

source	main	this PR	Node reads the source as
`/bE/`	`/bbu00E9/`	`/bu00E9/`	matches `E`
`/bbE/`	`/bbbu00E9/`	the same	matches `bE`
`/bbbE/`	`/bbbbu00E9/`	`/bbbu00E9/`	matches `bE`
`/ab<TAB>b/`	`/abbu0009b/`	`/abu0009b/`	matches `a<TAB>b`
a tag over `bE`	`bbu00E9`	`bu00E9`	cooked `E`
a tag over `b<U+2028>`	`bbu2028`	`b<LF>`	cooked empty (line continuation)
a tag over `<U+007F>`	`bu007F`	`<U+007F>`	cooked and raw `<U+007F>`

Printed text for the browser and node targets does not change. Tests pin that now.
Where no runtime helper runs (Bun.Transpiler, bun build --no-bundle --target=bun), strings.raw is the printed text, as on main: the six characters \u00E9 for é. For a backslash ahead of U+2028 it is a backslash and LF (main: \\u2028), and the printed file gains a line. ASCII output has no spelling that keeps both the cooked string and the raw string of that pair. Preserve non-ASCII in regex .source and tagged template .raw #33866 makes the raw string right.
The set of characters that get an escape is the same as on main, except U+007F in a template. A regexp keeps its escapes for control characters, so Transpiler rewrites raw NUL bytes (0x00) in regex literals: match failure before 1.3.12, RegExp.prototype.source still corrupted in 1.3.14 #33930 is not fixed here. Printed as written, a raw U+0000 in a class of a v-flag literal is a load-time SyntaxError in JavaScriptCore until [JSC] Yarr: accept a raw U+0000 in a v-mode class set and \q{} class string WebKit#595 (RegExp: accept a raw U+0000 inside a v-flag character class (oven-sh/WebKit#595) #42081). On main the escape hides that, and a test row pins it. With that settled, Transpiler rewrites raw NUL bytes (0x00) in regex literals: match failure before 1.3.12, RegExp.prototype.source still corrupted in 1.3.14 #33930 is one line in RawText::is_respelled.

Rows (Node 26.3.0 on the source text is the yardstick)

The script of the report: 0 of 48 rows differ from Node. Main: 24.
9,497 literals, each printed with Bun.Transpiler({ target: "bun" }) and given to the engine:

	main	this PR
regexp literals that Node accepts (5,673): read as Node reads the source	688	5,673
regexp literals that both engines accept (5,147): read another way	4,460	0
regexp literals that Node refuses (3,351): accepted after printing	1,471	1,690
tagged templates (473): cooked strings as in Node	186	473

Of the literals that Node refuses, 226 more are accepted after printing and 7 fewer. 160 of the 226 have a backslash ahead of a non-ASCII character in the name of a group (/(?<\é>a)/, /(?<é>a)\k<\é>/): the engine takes \u00E9 in a name. The other 66 have u or v, where JavaScriptCore accepts the source and main's text was refused for another reason (a range out of order, an invalid set operation).
bun build --compile --aot judges the printed pattern since AOT: front end, test runs and tests for the rewritten compiler #47942 (refuse_invalid_regexp_literals), so it refuses what bun run refuses. With this PR both refuse /[\é-a]/, and both accept /(?<\é>a)/, /\k<\é>/ and /\é/u.
Tried and left out: keep the backslash in the name of a group, so that the engine refuses the pattern as it refuses the source. The engine then read 560 literals that Node accepts another way than Node does (/\k<\é>/ with no named group, which JavaScriptCore refuses and Node matches).
With u or v, ECMAScript refuses a backslash ahead of a non-ASCII character. JavaScriptCore accepts it ([YARR] Reject \ + non-ASCII as an identity escape in Unicode mode WebKit#577, RegExp: reject \ + non-ASCII identity escapes with the u and v flags (WebKit bump for oven-sh/WebKit#577) #41767), and so did and does the printed text.
All printed text of the 9,497 rows is ASCII.
Printed output of the 46,645 .js, .mjs, .cjs, .ts and .tsx files under test/node_modules and src/js: 0 files differ from main.
wink-porter2-stemmer@2.0.1: stem("cat’s") is cat’ on main, cat in Node and with this PR. wink-nlp-utils@2.1.0: string.removePunctuations("it’s “quoted” … done") keeps the punctuation and takes u and d for punctuation on main.
RegEx unicode mismatch? #26785 is closed, but its regex returns null on 1.3.8, 1.3.14 and main b1305dd.

Measurements (release builds of main b1305dd and of this PR, linux-x64)

These are from before the merge of main. AOT: front end, test runs and tests for the rewritten compiler #47942 changed none of the measured files. The --aot copy is now in regexp_pattern_as_printed.
Binary: .text 110,627,497 -> 110,629,289 bytes (llvm-size -A). The file size of this local build does not change. print_reg_exp_literal 1,660 -> 1,754 bytes, print_raw_template_literal 1,305 -> 1,216 (nm -S). New: write_behind_backslash 666 and 535 (for Vec<u8>, --aot), write_braced_escape 494, RawText::first_respelled 58.
Release binaries of CI with main merged, against those of the merge base 2596ac5: the same size for macOS, linux-aarch64, linux-aarch64-musl and linux-aarch64-android. 4.0 KB more (one page) for linux-x64, linux-x64-musl, linux-x64-android and FreeBSD. 1.0 KB more for windows-x64 and 2.0 KB more for windows-aarch64.
Instructions (instructions:u, least of 9 runs of bun build --no-bundle --target=bun over 20,000 literals, less the same run with --target=node). A second measurement gave the same figures.

per literal	main	this PR
regexp, 1 / 32 / 200 ASCII bytes	76 / 603 / 3,459	31 / 247 / 1,423
template part, 1 / 32 / 33 / 200 ASCII bytes	127 / 623 / 639 / 3,311	103 / 258 / 138 / 165
regexp that is one U+00E9 / U+65E5 / U+1F600	217.3 / 232.5 / 265.3	204.3 / 219.5 / 252.3
template that is one U+00E9 / U+65E5 / U+1F600	189.6 / 202.5 / 454.1	189.6 / 203.5 / 311.1

per character, in a run of the same	main	this PR
regexp U+00E9 / U+65E5 / U+1F600	114.2 / 128.9 / 160.5	112.2 / 126.9 / 158.5
template U+00E9 / U+65E5 / U+1F600	117.2 / 129.9 / 378.4	110.2 / 123.9 / 228.4
regexp, backslash + U+00E9 / U+1F600	174.3 / 220.6	207.9 / 258.5
template, backslash + U+00E9 / U+1F600	177.3 / 437.9	202.9 / 319.9

An ASCII byte of a regexp literal costs 7.0 instructions, down from 17.0. One of a template part costs 5.0 up to 32 bytes and 0.16 beyond, down from 16.0.
Allocations: calls of mimalloc's entry points, counted with gdb breakpoints over four fixtures: 1,495 / 1,553 / 1,497 / 1,498 on main and the same with this PR. The routine calls the growth of the output buffer and memcpy, nothing else that allocates (llvm-objdump).
Syscalls of bun build --no-bundle --target=bun, five fixtures: 124 on main, 124 with this PR.
Transpiler cache: 40 of 40 entries are built again on the first run after the upgrade, 0 on the second.
perf, valgrind, strace and bloaty are not installed here. Used instead: a perf_event_open counter of instructions:u, gdb, a ptrace syscall counter, llvm-size and nm.

Tests

Fail on main, pass here: test/bundler/transpiler/template-literal.test.ts (12 of 17 fail on main), test/bundler/transpiler/runtime-transpiler.test.ts (7 of the 8 new tests, the eighth pins U+0000 in a v class), test/aot/regexp-literals-and-interpreter.test.ts (the new test), test/aot/ir/lower/expressions/regexp-literal.ts, test/aot/parallel/regexp/a-backslash-ahead-of-a-non-ascii-character-of-a-literal.js, test/aot/parallel/errors/a-regular-expression-is-quoted-with-the-escapes-that-bun-prints.js.
The table test in runtime-transpiler.test.ts gives each of 348 literals to the engine as written and as printed. V8 and JavaScriptCore read all 348 written literals alike, so it holds across the WebKit bump of RegExp: reject \ + non-ASCII identity escapes with the u and v flags (WebKit bump for oven-sh/WebKit#577) #41767.
Pass on a debug (ASAN) build with main merged: the test files above (regexp-literal.ts through AOT_IR_FILTER=lower/expressions/regexp-literal cargo test -p bun_aot --test ir_tests, with TESTAOT set), the 10 programs of test/aot/parallel/regexp, and 256 of the 257 of test/aot/parallel/errors. a-private-field-defined-twice-quotes-the-call-of-super.js fails on this debug build: plain Bun quotes #p there and super(...args) in a release build. It holds no regexp. Before the merge also 27553.test.ts and 14976.test.ts.
Pass on a release build, before the merge: transpiler.test.js (258), transpiler-cache.test.ts (34), bundler_string (59), bundler_bun (22), repl.test.ts (129), react-compiler.test.ts (144), react-compiler-fixtures.test.ts (2,467), bunshell.test.ts (464), bun-build-api.test.ts (90), coverage.test.ts (45), esbuild/default.test.ts (155), bundler_comments (50), bundler_compile (85), test/internal/source-lints (194), the 12 programs of test/aot/parallel/regexp and strings/source-literals-characters-outside-ascii.js.
bundler_bytecode_portable.test.ts: 20 of 22 here and on main. The fingerprint of the libraries bundle differs from the snapshot on this machine, with the same value for main and this PR.
cargo test -p bun_aot --test ir_tests, before the merge: 2,268 of 2,270 files. member-chain-of-1900-links.js and optional-chain-of-2100-links.ts failed there and on main (TS100301, nesting depth).

Related

AOT: front end, test runs and tests for the rewritten compiler #47942 merged first. It moved the --aot copy to regexp_pattern_as_printed in src/aot/lower/context.rs, and the merge of main ports the routine into it (three lines). The test/aot rows here fail if the port is lost.
AOT: front end, test runs and tests for the rewritten compiler #47942 also brought a fourth copy: the text of a regexp literal that --aot quotes in a message (src/aot/lower/quoted_text.rs), which must be what bun run quotes. It calls regexp_pattern_as_printed now. A control character of a regexp is now quoted with its escape too, as bun run quotes it. Main quotes it raw.
fix(printer): avoid double backslash in regex with escaped non-ASCII #26786 had the rule for the regexp loop alone and closed with no review.
.source and Function.prototype.toString() of a non-ASCII regexp literal are not changed here. Preserve non-ASCII in regex .source and tagged template .raw #33866 fixes them by printing as written.

…cape For the Bun target the printer writes an escape for each non-ASCII character of a regular expression literal and of a tagged template, and for each control character of a regular expression. A backslash ahead of the character stayed in the output, so it escaped the backslash of the new escape: /\é/ was printed as /\\u00E9/, which matches a backslash and the text u00E9, and a tag got that text as its cooked string. One routine in bun_core::printer now writes this text for the template printer, the regexp printer and the copy of the latter in bun_aot. The last backslash of an odd run is the first byte of the escape. Behind it, U+2028 and U+2029 of a template are a line continuation. U+007F of a tagged template is printed as it is written, as the other ASCII characters of a template are.

robobun · 2026-11-07T04:02:53Z

Status

Reproduced on main b1305dd (a release build) against Node 26.3.0. /\é/.test("é") is false, /^[a-z\é]+$/.test("a09") is true, and a tag over \é gets the text \u00E9 as its cooked string. The regex of RegEx unicode mismatch? #26785 returns null. A script of 48 rows (4 characters, 6 forms, .mjs and .cjs) differs from Node in 24 rows.
With this PR the 48 rows equal Node, and the new tests pass. They fail on main.
With main merged (AOT: front end, test runs and tests for the rewritten compiler #47942), the tests of this PR pass on a debug build. --aot refuses what bun run refuses, and a message of --aot quotes a regexp as bun run quotes it.
CI on 30f4fa6: each of the 184 jobs that ran passes (Linux glibc and musl, ASAN, Windows x64 and aarch64, macOS aarch64, cargo test). No test is red. The four macOS x64 test jobs have not run yet. That lane has a queue of several hours, and a job that waits too long there expires and is queued again.
PR: printer: let the backslash ahead of an escaped character start the escape #48064

robobun · 2026-11-07T04:02:53Z

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Walkthrough

The change adds shared escaping for raw template and regular-expression text. The parser and printer use respelling checks, and AOT regular-expression printing uses the shared writer. Tests cover escaping and matching behavior across template and regular-expression cases.

Changes

Raw text printing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared raw-text escaping `src/bun_core/string/mod.rs`	Adds template and regexp raw-text kinds, respelling detection, and writing logic for selected characters and backslash runs.
Printer and parser integration `src/js_printer/lib.rs`, `src/js_parser/visit/visit_expr.rs`, `src/aot/lower/context.rs`, `src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs`	Uses shared escaping for raw template and Bun-platform regexp output. AOT regexp printing uses the same helper. The parser checks whether template segments need respelling, and the runtime transpiler cache version increases to 52.
Regular-expression regression coverage `test/aot/ir/lower/expressions/regexp-literal.ts`, `test/aot/parallel/regexp/*`, `test/aot/regexp-literals-and-interpreter.test.ts`, `test/bundler/transpiler/runtime-transpiler.test.ts`	Adds tests for regexp printing and matching with backslashes before non-ASCII or control characters, including AOT and transpiled output.
Template-literal regression coverage `test/bundler/transpiler/template-literal-tags-fixture.js`, `test/bundler/transpiler/template-literal.test.ts`	Adds tagged-template and transpiler tests for escaped non-ASCII text, cooked and raw values, invalid escapes, and line continuations.

Possibly related issues

Transpiler rewrites raw NUL bytes (0x00) in regex literals: match failure before 1.3.12, RegExp.prototype.source still corrupted in 1.3.14 #33930: The PR changes Bun-target regexp text escaping through the shared writer. The reported .source rewrite is not indicated as addressed by these changes.

Possibly related PRs

oven-sh/bun#20435: Both PRs set the runtime transpiler cache version to 52 for different output changes. This creates a cache-version collision if both changes land with that version.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 39a33

The escaping change is mergeable with the documented limitation that some invalid regexp spellings become accepted. Runtime and AOT validation now use the same printed pattern.

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Title check		The title "printer: let the backslash ahead of an escaped character start the escape" matches the main change. The PR replaces three printing loops with write_raw_text_ascii, so the final backslash of…
Linked Issues check		The only linked issue, `#26785`, is closed and completed. It supplies background only. No active directly linked target remains, so no linked-issue coding requirements apply. The regex in `#26785` is not …
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The title "printer: let the backslash ahead of an escaped character start the escape" matches the main change. The PR replaces three printing loops with write_raw_text_ascii, so the final backslash of an odd run becomes the first byte of the escape. The title names the printer scope and the specific behavior. It does not name the regexp and tagged-template effects, but it is specific enough for a teammate scanning history.

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The only linked issue, #26785, is closed and completed. It supplies background only. No active directly linked target remains, so no linked-issue coding requirements apply. The regex in #26785 is not an objective for this pull request. The current PR description states that the fix targets backslash printing for Bun-target output. The root cause also explains #26785: the source regex [\/\⁄] is printed as \u2044, so the character class matches a backslash and the text u2044 instead of U+2044. The fix changes that printing. This link is context for the change. It does not create a requirement.

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The whole-PR diff from merge base 2596ac5 to head 39a339c was read in part. The read was truncated at 16,000 bytes. The visible file list and the AI-generated whole-PR summary agree. The changed files are: src/bun_core/string/mod.rs (RawText, first_respelled, write_raw_text_ascii, and braced and behind-backslash helpers that replace the three escape loops); src/js_printer/lib.rs (raw template and regexp printing call the helper); src/js_parser/visit/visit_expr.rs (raw-template transform gated on RawText::Template.first_respelled); src/aot/lower/context.rs (regexp_pattern_as_printed uses the same helper, because --aot carried the same bug); src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs (version 51 to 52, because cached output changes); and the tests and fixture under test/aot and test/bundler/transpiler. Each file traces to the stated fix or its verification. The incremental diff from previous head 832b711 to head 39a339c could not be read: the repository inspection reported missing changed blobs. Changes in that range are therefore not verified file by file. The whole-PR file list still shows no file outside the fix's scope.

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

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked: the discarded write result in print_raw_text_ascii (src/js_printer/lib.rs) is fine, since StdWriterAdapter::write_all always returns Ok after print_slice; the copied < at guard in write_raw_text_ascii correctly keeps two adjacent respelled characters from being read as backslash-escaped, and the run count stops at the previous escape's non-backslash bytes; and the U+007F template change (\u007F → raw DEL) is byte-different output but cooked/raw strings are unchanged and the transpiler cache version is bumped.

Extended reasoning...

The change replaces three hand-rolled ASCII-escape loops (template parts, regexp literals, AOT regexp copy) with one shared routine in bun_core and bumps the runtime transpiler cache version; it touches printer output for the Bun target only, no auth/crypto/injection surface. Two confirmed findings are posted inline; this note only records the adjacent concerns examined and ruled out.

claude

I re-reviewed this after the merge of main and found no bugs; since it changes the printed text of every Bun-target regexp literal and tagged template that holds non-ASCII, a human look at the Node-vs-JavaScriptCore trade-offs in the description (group names, u/v flags) would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

write_raw_text_ascii against the three loops it replaces: condition polarity in print_raw_template_literal, the Template (>= 0x80) vs RegExp (outside 0x20..=0x7E) classes, \u{...} vs surrogate-pair forms, and the backslash-run count in write_behind_backslash (a run stops at the trailing byte of a previously escaped character, so parity is right after é\é and \<U+2028>\é).
Infallibility of the discarded/expected writes: StdWriterAdapter::write_all and the Vec<u8> Write impl always return Ok; Cursor { i: start, width: 0 } makes CodepointIterator::next begin at start.
The merge of main (#47942) now runs describe_regexp_syntax_error on regexp_pattern_as_printed output in refuse_invalid_regexp_literals, so --aot and bun run judge the same bytes; visit_expr.rs lowering decision is equivalent to the old is_all_ascii; cache version bumped to 52.
Not run: the new test suites and the Node-comparison script the description cites; the byte-search source lint was checked by reading its patterns (predicate position and the manual while loop are not matched).

Extended reasoning...

The PR adds a shared bun_core::printer::write_raw_text_ascii helper and routes the JS printer's regexp and raw-template escaping (Bun target only) and the AOT regexp pattern rewriter through it, so a source backslash ahead of an escaped character becomes the escape's own backslash; it bumps the runtime transpiler cache version to 52 and adds tests in test/bundler/transpiler and test/aot. No security-sensitive surface is touched. The source is unchanged since the prior review; the only new commit is a merge of main, which moved the AOT regexp validation onto the printed pattern and thereby resolved the earlier optional inline note. Deferring rather than approving because the change alters transpiler output for all Bun-target code with non-ASCII regexp/template text and embeds engine-compatibility judgments that a maintainer should weigh, and because the tests could not be run in this review.

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- Around line 59-62: The AOT regexp path can accept invalid Unicode identity
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is surfaced as an AOT early error before lowering can produce a literal. Update
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`src/aot/lower/context.rs`

`test/aot/regexp-literals-and-interpreter.test.ts`

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claude

I reviewed the latest push and found no bugs; the quoted-text copy of the old loop in src/aot/lower/quoted_text.rs now goes through regexp_pattern_as_printed, which closes the point I raised last time. Because this changes the bytes the printer emits for the Bun target across bun run, Bun.Transpiler and --aot (with a deliberate raw-template tradeoff for the \ + U+2028 case), a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

write_raw_text_ascii / write_behind_backslash in src/bun_core/string/mod.rs: the backslash-run parity check, the copied < at guard (an escape never ends in a backslash, and at == 0 cannot index at - 1), and the Cursor { i: start, width: 0 } start, which CodepointIterator::next reads as position start.
print_raw_text_ascii discards the write result; StdWriterAdapter::write_all always returns Ok, matching the two existing std_writer() sites. RawText::Template.first_respelled is first_non_ascii_usize, so the parser's tag-wrapper decision is unchanged. The new .position(|&byte| self.is_respelled(..)) is not a byte-literal body, so byte-search.test.ts does not match it.
Not run here: the test suite and the USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 fails-on-main check; judged by reading only.

Extended reasoning...

The diff replaces three hand-rolled ASCII-escaping loops (printer regexp branch, printer raw template part, AOT regexp pattern) with one shared helper in bun_core that lets an odd trailing backslash start the escape, routes the AOT quoted-text regexp path through the same function, bumps the runtime transpiler cache version to 52, and adds FileCheck, AOT parallel, Bun.Transpiler and subprocess tests pinning output for the bun, node and browser targets. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Approval is withheld because the change alters printed output for every Bun-target consumer and carries a deliberate semantic tradeoff (raw text of a \ + U+2028 template part under Bun.Transpiler) that a maintainer should weigh; the hunt ran dry with no findings, and the previously flagged quoted-text copy was addressed in commit 30f4fa6. No CODEOWNERS entry covers the changed paths, and the third-party bot threads are COMMENTED reviews, not CHANGES_REQUESTED.

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Comment thread src/bun_core/string/mod.rs Resolved

Comment thread test/bundler/transpiler/runtime-transpiler.test.ts Resolved

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Comment thread src/aot/lower/expression/array.rs Resolved

Comment thread src/bun_core/string/mod.rs Resolved

Merge branch 'main' into robobun/e274c70f/raw-text-ascii-escape

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Comment thread src/bun_core/string/mod.rs Resolved

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Comment thread src/aot/lower/context.rs Resolved

printer: put the reason for inline(always) on the attribute line

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Comment thread src/js_printer/lib.rs Resolved

aot: a message quotes a regexp literal as the printer writes it

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printer: let the backslash ahead of an escaped character start the escape - #48064

printer: let the backslash ahead of an escaped character start the escape#48064
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