[robobun]

Problem

• An inline snapshot that Bun 1.4.4 wrote fails on main with the value's own error (error: not ready from a getter). docs/test/snapshots.mdx says that it passes.
• Expect::inline_snapshot prints the value first (src/runtime/test_runner/expect.rs:1153), and a print that throws leaves through ?. This is a regression from bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833, in no release.

Fix

• A throwing print goes to one cold function, print_threw. It passes if the saved text is an older Bun's print, and the test continues.
• Every other case throws the same exception: another text, a first write, --update-snapshots, a snapshot serializer's error.
• Verified: test/js/bun/test/snapshot-tests/snapshots/snapshot.test.ts (10 new tests, 6 fail on main). Bun 1.4.4 wrote the fixtures.
• Self-reviewed: 36 concerns raised, 35 addressed. Rejected: Bun-header .snap files in this PR (Notes).

Background

• An inline snapshot has the format of the module that registered its test. Vitest's format calls own getters and toJSON. Bun 1.4.4 called neither and printed [native code].
• Considered a printer that does not throw: fixtures that Vitest and Jest wrote pin the throw.

Downsides

• Release .text grows by 1,280 bytes (llvm-size).
• The comparison is main's rule for a mismatch. It prints the value once more: a Proxy trap, a Symbol.toStringTag getter and an array index accessor run twice. With property matchers it takes a text with the value itself (1 for Any<Number>), which 1.4.4 fails.
• bun test -u fails on a snapshot that bun test passes. Only a test from "bun:test" rewrites it.

Notes

Where this comes from

• An automated fuzz note in a maintainer's thread. There is no issue and no user report, and no public suite is known to hold such a snapshot.
• The note's own call is not changed. A first toMatchInlineSnapshot() or toMatchSnapshot() of an object with an own getter that throws, in a test registered through "vitest", fails with the getter's error. Vitest 5.0.3 and Jest 30.5.2 fail the same way (7 of 7 getter shapes compared with Vitest), and formats/vitest/__snapshots__/hostile.fixture.ts.snap, which Vitest wrote, records "throws" for it.
• Who this helps: a project whose snapshots were written by 1.4.4 or older, on the first release that has bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833.
• The open question on bun test: accept what Bun 1.4.4 stored for a Response, a BuildArtifact, expect.any() and a node:vm global #47809 (which older forms keep passing) covers this PR too. This is the one older form that --update-snapshots cannot rewrite.

Repro

// a.test.js, as Bun 1.4.4 wrote it
import { test, expect } from "vitest";
test("a getter that throws", () => {
  expect({ ok: 1, get bad() { throw new Error("not ready"); } }).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
    {
      "bad": [native code],
      "ok": 1,
    }
  `);
});

	Bun 1.4.4	main	This PR	Vitest 5.0.3
CI=1 bun test ./a.test.js	pass	error: not ready	pass	Error: not ready
The call with no saved text, bun test	writes the text above	error: not ready	error: not ready	Error: not ready
The file above, bun test -u	pass	error: not ready	error: not ready, no byte changed	Error: not ready, no byte changed
The file above with test from "bun:test", with and without -u	pass	pass	pass

What passes again

formats/bun-1.4.4/print-throws.fixture.js and print-throws-bun-format.fixture.js hold these cases. The 1.4.4 release binary wrote their snapshots. On main 0 of 15 and 0 of 4 tests pass. Here 15 and 4 pass, with CI=true and CI=false, and no byte changes.

• In a test registered through "vitest": an own getter, a getter in a nested object, in an array item, in a Map value and under a symbol key, a boxed symbol (TypeError: Cannot convert a symbol to a string on main), a toJSON that throws, a prototype constructor getter, a Map whose entries() throws, a call with property matchers (also where a frozen array did not keep them), toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot of a thrown object and of an error whose name getter throws, .resolves and .rejects.
• In Bun's own format, from "bun:test": a getter that returns a revoked Proxy or a Proxy whose ownKeys throws, and a getter that throws on what looks like a DOM node or a React 19 element. 1.4.4 did not call these getters.
• Also through expect.soft(), through the expect of a test context, and in a concurrent group.

What does not change

• Another saved text, and no saved text, end in the exception of the print: the same value, the same frames in the report, and no diff.
• A class getter, a getter on a prototype object and a non-enumerable getter pass everywhere. pretty-format reads own enumerable keys only.
• A call whose print throws takes no snapshot number, as on main. A call that passes through the older print takes one, as it did on 1.4.4.
• The error of the print comes before the errors of the snapshot store, as on main.
• A first write and -u in Bun's own format also throw where the result of a getter cannot be printed. 1.4.4 wrote [native code] there. That is as on main.

Behaviour to know

The comparison prints the value once more, the way 1.4.4 printed it. It runs only when a print throws over a saved text and --update-snapshots is off. That print calls no getter at a string or symbol key and no toJSON. It does read what 1.4.4 read to print. Calls during one toMatchInlineSnapshot in a test from "vitest":

	1.4.4	This PR, no saved text	This PR, a saved text
A getter at a string or symbol key	0	1	1
toJSON	0	1	1
An accessor at an array index	1	1	2
A Symbol.toStringTag getter	1	1	2
A $$typeof getter	1	2	3
The ownKeys trap of a Proxy	1	1	2

• main does what the column with no saved text shows, for every text: one print, then the error.
• The column with a saved text holds for a text that matches and for one that does not, so these run twice also when the matcher then throws. A text that differs early stops the older print early.
• The other traps of a Proxy run again too.
• With property matchers the comparison can print twice (below). In one such call an accessor at an array index ran 2 times, both in the older prints. 1.4.4 ran it once.
• An earlier version of this description said that a getter is read once per call. That was wrong for the last four rows.

A test that gets past its thrower runs its later calls, as it did on 1.4.4. On main it stopped at the thrower. With CI unset, a later toMatchSnapshot() that has no entry writes one: later calls 2 in a new .snap file, under Vitest's header for a test from "vitest". 1.4.4 wrote the same key under Bun's header. With CI=1 that call fails with Snapshot creation is disabled in CI environments, as on 1.4.4.

With property matchers the comparison takes two older prints: one of the value with the matchers, one of the value itself. It is was_written_by_another, the rule of main for a text that does not match. 1.4.4 could not write a matcher into a frozen array or through a getter, and saved the value there. The fixture case "with property matchers that a frozen array did not keep" needs the second print. The rule cannot tell where 1.4.4 kept a matcher. So a saved text with 1 in the place of Any<Number> passes here, as it does on main where nothing throws. 1.4.4 fails it with a diff. A text with another number ends in the error of the print.

Other points:

• In a concurrent group the format follows the expect that is called. The expect of the test context prints in Vitest's format. The imported expect prints in Bun's format, on main too.
• An error that leaves a snapshot serializer is always reported, also when the value threw inside the printer that the serializer called. main reports the same error.
• bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 lists a value deeper than 4,096 levels as one to update by hand in Jest's and Vitest's format. An inline snapshot of it that 1.4.4 wrote passes here on a release build (4,200 levels tried). A debug build overflows the stack in the older print and throws as before.
• bun:test: print a Proxy, arguments and generators as objects in diffs and Bun-format snapshots #47861 and bun:test, console: print the only child of a JSX element as a list of one #48017 add sentences to the same paragraph of docs/test/snapshots.mdx that say that the matcher fails when a print throws. With this PR that holds unless the saved inline text is an older Bun's.

Not in this PR

• .snap files. toMatchSnapshot() and toThrowErrorMatchingSnapshot() have the same bug for an entry that an older Bun appended to a Jest-header or Vitest-header file, from "bun:test" too, and for a Bun-header file. A fix for them does not last today: bun test -u -t other deletes such an entry from a Vitest-header file, and bun test -u deletes it from a Bun-header file. bun test: --update-snapshots keeps the entries of tests that did not run to the end, in all three snapshot formats #47988 changes that rule and the same lines of snapshot.rs, so the file half follows on top of it. Until then, a .snap whose first line is Bun's header passes for a getter that throws.
• bun test -u that passes and keeps a text that it cannot rewrite. It is a choice for a maintainer: -u would then leave a text that is not in the format of the test.
• A snapshot of an object whose getter changes the object when it is read (this._items ??= ...) fails on main with a diff, in plain "bun:test". The print returns, so this PR does not reach it.
• After a print that throws and is caught, the next snapshot of the test gets a number that is one too low for an inline call (t 1, where 1.4.4 and Vitest use t 2).
• After a run that checks every entry and adds one, a Jest-header or Vitest-header file is sorted, and an older Bun's entry in it then fails with a diff.

The last three are separate bugs, outside this PR.

Measurements

main 2596ac5 against the first commit of this PR on that base. Release builds are bun run build:release of both trees. The second and third commits add #[derive(Copy, Clone)] to a 2-byte struct that was already passed by value, shorten a comment, and add tests.

	main	This PR
.text, release (llvm-size -A)	108,257,833 B	108,259,113 B (+1,280)
.rodata, release	26,780,652 B	26,780,652 B
Expect::inline_snapshot (llvm-nm), with print_threw inlined into it	4,860 B	6,055 B
Expect::snapshot plus match_and_fmt_snapshot	5,290 B + 693 B	6,044 B, one function
Instructions, one passing inline call, "bun:test" / "vitest"	10,998 / 11,825	10,965 / 11,788
Instructions, one passing toMatchSnapshot(), Bun header / Vitest header	11,504 / 12,302	11,467 / 12,263
Per passing call: prints, counts, exception takes, older prints	1, 1, 0, 0	1, 1, 0, 0
Per passing call: Rust allocations (inline "bun:test", inline "vitest", file Bun, file Vitest)	8, 11, 11, 14	8, 11, 11, 14
Per passing call: syscalls inside the matcher	0	0
Instructions, a print that throws, no saved text	12,380	12,376
Instructions, a print that throws, saved text other	12,380	18,536
Instructions, a print that throws, saved text of 1.4.4	12,380, throws	21,135, passes
Per print that throws over a saved text: exception takes, older prints	0, 0	1, 1 (2 older prints with property matchers, if the first does not match)

• Instructions are counted with gdb stepi from the entry of the matcher body to its return, callees included, at call 500 of 1,100 in one test (call 50 of 100 for a print that throws).
• The counts per call are gdb breakpoint hit counts on debug builds, as the slope between 2,000 and 4,000 calls.
• The passing call is shorter because the check of the property matchers is inlined, and match_and_fmt_snapshot now has one caller.
• The calls of getters and traps in "Behaviour to know" are counters in the test file, on a debug build of this branch and on the 1.4.4 release binary.

Outcomes against main over 383 probe test files (1,204 tests, CI=1, identical copies): 255 fail on main and pass here, all inline. 0 pass on main and fail here. 478 pass on both. 471 fail on both with the same first error line. The files have the same bytes after the run in 383 of 383.

The fixtures that Vitest 5.0.3 and Jest 30.5.2 wrote: formats/vitest/hostile.fixture.ts and formats/jest/hostile.fixture.js pass 82 and 82 tests on both builds with 2,554 snapshots each, and the directory keeps its bytes. In each file 550 prints throw through the serializer of the fixture, so print_threw returns at once: 0 older prints and 0 exception takes, as on main.

Suites

On a debug build of the first commit: snapshot.test.ts 190 pass and 1 skip (the Vitest-written and Jest-written fixtures are part of it: 971 and 601 tests, bytes unchanged), bun-snapshots.test.ts 6, existing-snapshots.test.ts 1, new-snapshot.test.ts 2, expect-deferred.test.ts 56, vitest-flavor.test.ts 191, expect-extend.test.js 122, expect.test.js 464.

On a debug build of the head: snapshot.test.ts 190 pass and 1 skip. cargo clippy -p bun_runtime --no-deps and cargo check -p bun_runtime --all-targets pass.

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[robobun]

^{Updated 6:05 AM PT - Nov 10th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 2f6280c has 2 failures in Build #139716 (All Failures):

• test/aot/parallel/a-graph-is-not-linked-inside-a-commonjs-file-that-it-imports/a-ring-and-an-earlier-graph-meet-on-one-file/main.mjs - compare: it does not exit and print as plain Bun does on 🐧 25.04 x64
• ❌ CPU instruction violation on Windows x64 — 1 check(s) failed

The baseline build contains instructions not available on Nehalem (SSE4.2, no AVX/AVX2/AVX512).

• Static instruction scan

Static scan violations

_powf_special  [AVX]  (1 insns)
If these are runtime-dispatched behind a CPUID gate: add each symbol to
scripts/verify-baseline-static/allowlist-x64-windows.txt with a comment pointing at the gate.
If there's no gate: this is a real bug — a -march leaked into a subbuild.

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[robobun]

Status

Reproduced with the Bun 1.4.4 release binary and a debug build of main:

1. a.test.js imports test and expect from "vitest". Its test calls expect({ ok: 1, get bad() { throw new Error("not ready"); } }).toMatchInlineSnapshot().
2. CI=false bun test ./a.test.js with 1.4.4 writes { "bad": [native code], "ok": 1 } into the call.
3. CI=1 bun test ./a.test.js passes on 1.4.4 and fails on main with error: not ready. It passes with this branch.

PR: #48451

CI on 2f6280c (build 139716)

The diff is green. snapshot.test.ts with the 10 new tests passes on the 11 lanes that ran it: Linux glibc and musl (x64, aarch64, ASAN), Windows x64 and aarch64, macOS aarch64. The GitHub Actions checks pass (cargo clippy, Format, Source lints, cargo miri test). Two Buildkite jobs are red. Neither runs code that this PR changes:

• :windows: x64 - verify-baseline: _powf_special [AVX] (1 insns) 0x014701c364 Vphsubsw. The static scan reads a switch table of the UCRT as an instruction. verify-baseline-static: allowlist the UCRT _powf_special switch table on Windows x64 #45886 and verify-baseline-static: skip the MSVC switch tables that the PDB marks, delete the CRT blanket-pass group #46398 fix that. The result follows from where the linker puts the function, so a second run of this commit fails the same way.
• :ubuntu: 25.04 x64 - test-bun: test/aot/parallel/a-graph-is-not-linked-inside-a-commonjs-file-that-it-imports/a-ring-and-an-earlier-graph-meet-on-one-file/main.mjs. The log says THE REFERENCE WAVERED: plain Bun printed two module orders for one program.

The other failed tests of the build passed when they ran again. The four macOS x64 test shards never ran: that lane had a backlog of about five hours, and the jobs expired in the queue four times before the build ended.

This PR has no retrigger commit. A second run of this commit repeats the verify-baseline result, and the macOS x64 queue is longer than the time that a job can wait.

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Walkthrough

The snapshot printer now identifies serializer errors. Inline snapshot handling separates property-matcher substitution from printing and handles print failures using saved snapshot text. New fixtures and tests cover legacy snapshots, throwing values, and serializer errors.

Changes

Inline Snapshot Print Errors

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Classify snapshot print errors src/runtime/test_runner/pretty_format.rs	The formatter tracks serializer failures. print_snapshot returns a PrintError with the underlying error and serializer status.
Handle inline snapshot print failures src/runtime/test_runner/expect.rs	Inline snapshot handling applies property matchers separately from printing. When printing fails, it checks saved snapshot text and follows the update, error, and snapshot-counting paths.
Cover legacy snapshots and print errors test/js/bun/test/snapshot-tests/formats/bun-1.4.4/*, test/js/bun/test/snapshot-tests/snapshots/snapshot.test.ts, docs/test/snapshots.mdx	Fixtures and tests cover legacy inline snapshots, throwing values, serializer errors, and concurrent expectations. The documentation describes update behavior for snapshots that cannot be printed.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 2f628

No material merge risk was identified. The snapshot tests should pass the normal CI checks before merge.

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

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked two things in print_threw and ruled them out: the second Jest::runner() borrow is only taken on a path where inline_snapshot's own runner is never used again, and the re-print in was_written_by_another propagating its own exception (dropping the taken one) is a narrow case where the saved text is already not an older Bun's print. I did not run the snapshot fixtures or BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1; this review is by reading only.

Extended reasoning...

The change restructures toMatchInlineSnapshot in src/runtime/test_runner/expect.rs to catch a throwing print, take the pending exception, re-print the value the way older Bun did, and either pass or re-throw, with a new PrintError type in pretty_format.rs to separate serializer throws from value throws. It touches no security-sensitive surface. The ruled-out note records concerns examined beyond the posted findings.

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

• 🟣 src/runtime/test_runner/expect.rs — pre-existing: a .snap entry that Bun 1.4.4 wrote for a value whose getter or toJSON throws still fails with that error after this merge, while the same inline snapshot now passes. Expect::snapshot at src/runtime/test_runner/expect.rs:1405 leaves through ? when match_and_fmt_snapshot throws, so print_threw's older-Bun fallback never runs for toMatchSnapshot() or toThrowErrorMatchingSnapshot() in a Jest-header or Vitest-header file. Fix: route the file path's print failure through the same older-Bun comparison against the saved entry (gated on --update-snapshots off and no serializer throw), or say in docs/test/snapshots.mdx that only inline snapshots keep passing. The PR text excludes this on purpose because of #47988; the docs still say such snapshots pass.

  Why this was flagged

  A project upgrades from Bun 1.4.4 with a __snapshots__/x.snap file carrying a Vitest or Jest header, written by toMatchSnapshot() from "bun:test" for { ok: 1, get bad() { throw new Error("not ready") } }; 1.4.4 stored "bad": [native code]. Expect::snapshot at src/runtime/test_runner/expect.rs:1403-1405 calls value_to_snapshot then match_and_fmt_snapshot, whose print_snapshot in Vitest format reads the own getter and throws; the ? at expect.rs:1405 propagates it before match_or_write or was_written_by_another at expect.rs:1411 can compare the saved entry. The user gets error: not ready and a failed test, exactly as on the base branch; only the inline path at expect.rs:1163 gained the print_threw fallback. docs/test/snapshots.mdx:299 still says snapshots written by earlier versions still pass, and the new sentence narrows that only implicitly to inline snapshots. The PR description names this exclusion and #47988 as the reason, so this is a documented partial fix, not a regression.

  Verification: pre-existing; acknowledged in diff. Trigger: a .snap file whose first line is a Jest or Vitest header holds an entry Bun 1.4.4 wrote for a value whose own getter/toJSON throws. The ? at src/runtime/test_runner/expect.rs:1405 leaves Expect::snapshot before the was_written_by_another fallback at 1410-1419 can run. The base commit has the identical ? at expect.rs:1348-1349.

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