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Problem

Karma fails to start under Bun with:

Error: No provider for "proxies"! (Resolving: webServer -> proxies)

Karma's di package (and AngularJS's $injector) discover dependency-injection tokens by parsing Function.prototype.toString() and extracting /* token */ comments from the parameter list:

// karma/lib/middleware/proxy.js
exports.create = function (/* config */config, /* config.proxies */proxies, /* emitter */emitter) { ... }

Under Node, fn.toString() returns the source verbatim, so di's regex sees ["config", "config.proxies", "emitter"]. Under Bun the runtime transpiler discards those comments, so di sees ["config", "proxies", "emitter"] and there is no provider registered under the bare name "proxies".

Fix

  • js_parser::parse_fn now enables preserve_all_comments_before while scanning the (...) list and drains the captured comments into a new G::Arg::leading_comments field for each argument.
  • js_printer::print_fn_args re-emits those comments before each binding (skipped under minify_whitespace). Line comments are converted to block comments so they don't swallow the rest of the single-line argument list; line comments containing */ are dropped rather than emitted incorrectly.
  • All other G::Arg construction sites already use ..Default::default(), so no call-site churn.

Verification

Before:

$ bun ./node_modules/karma/bin/karma start
ERROR [karma-server]: Server start failed on port 9876: Error: No provider for "proxies"! (Resolving: webServer -> proxies)

After, with the debug build, karma starts and runs until killed by timeout (no DI error).

di's annotate parser now produces the same result under Bun as under Node:

Node:  ["config","config.proxies","emitter"]
Bun:   ["config","config.proxies","emitter"]

Regression test added at test/regression/issue/13451/13451.test.ts; existing transpiler.test.js, bundler_edgecase, bundler_minify, bundler_cjs2esm, esbuild/default and decorator tests all pass locally.

Fixes #13451


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fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: 1 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" "test/regression/issue/13451/13451.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.0 (3ff12cde6)

test/regression/issue/13451/13451.test.ts:
90 |   expect(stderr).toBe("");
91 | 
92 |   const results = JSON.parse(stdout);
93 | 
94 |   // anonymous function expression
95 |   expect(results.anonExpr).toContain("/* a */");
                                ^
error: expect(received).toContain(expected)

Expected to contain: "/* a */"
Received: "function(x, y, z) {\n    return [x, y, z];\n  }"

      at <anonymous> (/workspace/bun/test/regression/issue/13451/13451.test.ts:95:28)
(fail) inline /* */ comments in function parameter lists survive the runtime transpiler [361.12ms]
(pass) comments inside erased TS this-params/decorators are not relocated onto real args [308.01ms]
(pass) legal comments in parameter lists survive minification [292.45ms]

 2 pass
 1 fail
 11 expect() calls
Ran 3 tests across 1 file. [2.43s]
error: script "bd" exited with code 1
__F:1:S:0

release without fix: all passed
bun test v1.4.0-canary.1 (3dc1be7db)

test/regression/issue/13451/13451.test.ts:
(pass) comments inside erased TS this-params/decorators are not relocated onto real args [6.40ms]
(pass) legal comments in parameter lists survive minification [5.75ms]
(pass) inline /* */ comments in function parameter lists survive the runtime transpiler [9.22ms]

 3 pass
 0 fail
 30 expect() calls
Ran 3 tests across 1 file. [170.00ms]
__F:0:S:0
passes on PR (with fix)
ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" "test/regression/issue/13451/13451.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.0 (3ff12cde6)

test/regression/issue/13451/13451.test.ts:
(pass) inline /* */ comments in function parameter lists survive the runtime transpiler [364.37ms]
(pass) legal comments in parameter lists survive minification [290.68ms]
(pass) comments inside erased TS this-params/decorators are not relocated onto real args [320.74ms]

 3 pass
 0 fail
 30 expect() calls
Ran 3 tests across 1 file. [2.41s]
__F:0:S:0

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 712ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[0/5] cargo bun_bin → libbun_rust.a (--target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)

  nightly-2026-07-20-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu unchanged - rustc 1.99.0-nightly (9f36de775 2026-07-19)

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diff hotspot
src/ast/g.rs                              |   5 +
 src/js_parser/parse/parse_fn.rs           |  62 +++++++++++
 src/js_printer/lib.rs                     |  17 +++
 test/regression/issue/13451/13451.test.ts | 175 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 259 insertions(+)

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file                                       reads  edits  tests
src/ast/g.rs                                   5      4      0
src/js_parser/parse/parse_fn.rs                8     20      0
src/js_printer/lib.rs                          3      5      0
test/regression/issue/13451/13451.test.ts      2      8      0

Karma's `di` package and AngularJS's $injector parse
`Function.prototype.toString()` to discover DI tokens from
comment-annotated parameters:

  exports.create = function (/* config */ c, /* config.proxies */ p) {}

Bun's runtime transpiler was discarding these comments entirely, so
`di` saw bare parameter names and failed with
"No provider for \"proxies\"!" when starting Karma.

This change makes the lexer capture comments while scanning a function
parameter list, stores them on `G::Arg`, and re-emits them in
`print_fn_args` (skipped under `--minify`). Line comments are
rewritten as block comments so they don't swallow the rest of the
argument list.

Fixes #13451
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❌ @robobun, your commit 3ff12cd has 4 failures in Build #87489 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 36705

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-36705 executable, so you can run:

bun-36705 --bun

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Additional findings (outside current diff — PR may have been updated during review):

  • 🔴 src/js_parser/parse/parse_fn.rs:205-207 — preserve_all_comments_before is held true for the entire (...) loop, so comments scanned while parsing an argument's binding pattern, TS type annotation, or default-value expression leak into the next argument (or into nested statement lists). For example function(a = /* x */ 1, b) {} now prints as function(a = 1, /* x */ b) {}, and function(a /* note */, b) {} prints as function(a, /* note */ b) {} — the comment moves into the exact DI-token position for b, which is a regression vs. the pre-PR behavior of simply dropping it. The flag should only be high between the comma/( and the start of the binding: turn it off (and truncate back to comments_base) before parse_binding/skip_type_script_type/parse_expr for the default, then re-enable before advancing past the comma. This also avoids two related leaks from the same over-broad scope: parse_stmts_up_to draining ordinary comments inside a block-bodied default (e.g. a = () => { return 1 /* mid */ + 2; }) into misplaced S::Comment statements, and parse_import_expr unconditionally clearing the buffer / setting the flag to false when a default contains import(), which drops the DI comment on the following arg.

    Extended reasoning...

    What the bug is

    parse_fn sets p.lexer.preserve_all_comments_before = true at line 207 and only restores it at line 375, wrapping the entire argument loop. Inside that window, each iteration calls take_arg_leading_comments(comments_base) once — at the top, before parsing the binding — and then parses the binding pattern, optional ?, TS type annotation, and default-value expression with the flag still high. Any comment the lexer scans during those sub-parses is pushed into comments_to_preserve_before (the lexer gate at lexer.rs:2244 is has_legal_annotation || preserve_all_comments_before) and nothing consumes or truncates it before the next iteration. That over-broad scope produces three distinct symptoms.

    Symptom 1 — comments migrate to the next argument (regression)

    Concrete trace for function(a = /* x */ 1, b) {}:

    1. Iter 1: take_arg_leading_comments drains nothing (buffer at comments_base). parse_binding consumes a. Lexer sees =, next() scans /* x */ and pushes it (flag is true), token becomes 1. parse_expr consumes 1. args.push({binding: a, default: 1, leading_comments: []}).
    2. Iter 2: take_arg_leading_comments drains [/* x */] and attaches it to b.
    3. Printer emits function(a = 1, /* x */ b) {}.

    The same happens for a trailing comment on the previous arg (function(a /* note */, b) → function(a, /* note */ b)), for destructuring (function({/* p */ x}, y) → function({x}, /* p */ y)), and for TS annotations (function(a: /* T */ number, b) → function(a, /* T */ b)).

    Why this is a regression: before this PR the flag was false here, so /* x */ / /* note */ were dropped and di.annotate() fell back to the parameter name b. After this PR the comment is relocated into the DI-token position of a different parameter, so di.annotate() returns ['a', 'x'] / ['a', 'note'] for b — a wrong DI token where previously there was none. That's the exact class of behavior this PR exists to make semantically meaningful, so producing it in the wrong place is worse than the pre-PR baseline.

    Symptom 2 — nested brace bodies inside defaults emit misplaced S::Comment statements

    If a default value contains a block body — arrow with a block, function/class expression, object method — that body is parsed via parse_fn_body → parse_stmts_up_to while the flag is still true (arrows reach parse_arrow_body without going through parse_fn; nested parse_fn saves old_preserve_comments = true and restores it to true before calling parse_fn_body). parse_stmts_up_to (mod.rs:1454-1458) drains comments_to_preserve_before into S::Comment statements at the top of every iteration. With the flag high, every ordinary comment inside the body is pushed and then emitted as a statement at the nearest following statement boundary:

    function outer(a = () => {
      return 1 /* mid */ + 2;
    }) {}

    Pre-PR output strips /* mid */. Post-PR output is:

    function outer(a = () => {
      return 1 + 2;
      /* mid */
    }) {}

    The SComment printer arm has no minify_whitespace gate (it exists to keep legal comments through minification), so these non-legal comments now also survive into minified output. This is not the same as symptom 1 — here parse_stmts_up_to consumes the buffer before the outer loop resumes, so a truncate-after-args.push() fix alone would not address it.

    Symptom 3 — import() in a default disables capture for later args

    parse_import_expr (parse_import_export.rs:45-51) unconditionally sets preserve_all_comments_before = false and .clear()s the buffer with no save/restore. It's reachable from a default value via parse_expr(Level::Comma). So for function(a = import('./x'), /* token */ b) {}, after import() returns the flag is false, the lexer does not push /* token */, and b.leading_comments stays empty. The .clear() also wipes entries below comments_base (legal comments the PR's own comment says are 'left in place'). This is a new interaction created by the PR — nothing previously enabled the flag around expression parsing that could reach import().

    Why existing code doesn't prevent it

    The only truncate is at line 374, after the whole loop. take_arg_leading_comments is called before parse_binding, not after the default is parsed, so it cannot discard comments captured mid-argument. Nothing lowers the flag around the sub-parses.

    Fix

    Scope the flag to the gap between arguments, not the whole list. Concretely, right after take_arg_leading_comments(...):

    let leading_comments = p.take_arg_leading_comments(comments_base);
    p.lexer.preserve_all_comments_before = old_preserve_comments;   // off during binding/type/default

    and re-enable + truncate just before advancing to the next argument:

    p.lexer.comments_to_preserve_before.truncate(comments_base);
    p.lexer.preserve_all_comments_before = true;
    p.lexer.next()?;   // consume ','

    This fixes all three symptoms at once: comments inside the binding/type/default aren't captured (symptom 1), nested parse_stmts_up_to sees the flag false so ordinary comments aren't turned into S::Comment (symptom 2), and parse_import_expr's hard reset is harmless because the flag was already false and the buffer already at comments_base (symptom 3). Independently, per the 'fix the whole class' rule, parse_import_expr should save/restore the flag and truncate-to-a-saved-base rather than .clear() now that callers can enter it with the flag already true.

  • 🟡 src/js_parser/parse/parse_fn.rs:372-374 — The unconditional truncate(comments_base) here also discards legal comments (/*! ... */, //! ...) that the lexer would have pushed to comments_to_preserve_before even without this PR (via has_legal_annotation at lexer.rs:2244), and that previously survived into the function body as S::Comment statements. Concretely, function foo(/*! @license MIT */) {} and function foo(x /*! @preserve */) {} used to keep the legal comment in the output; now it is silently dropped. Consider filtering the tail (retain entries whose text[2] == b'!') instead of blanket-truncating — legal comments in a param list are rare enough that this need not block, but it is a regression.

    Extended reasoning...

    What the bug is

    Before this PR, preserve_all_comments_before was false while parsing a function's parameter list, so the only comments that could land in lexer.comments_to_preserve_before during arg parsing were legal comments — those whose third byte is ! (/*! ... */ or //! ...). The lexer pushes those unconditionally, regardless of preserve_all_comments_before:

    // src/js_parser/lexer.rs:2198, 2244
    let has_legal_annotation = text.len() > 2 && text[2] == b'!';
    ...
    if has_legal_annotation || self.preserve_all_comments_before {
        self.comments_to_preserve_before.push(...);
    }

    Those legal comments then flowed through to parse_fn_body → parse_stmts_up_to, which drains the buffer into S::Comment statements at the top of the body (mod.rs:1454-1458). So a /*! comment inside a parameter list was preserved in the printed output — relocated into the body, but present.

    This PR adds an unconditional p.lexer.comments_to_preserve_before.truncate(comments_base) after the argument loop. The intent is to discard the newly captured ordinary comments between the last arg and ) (which would otherwise surface as body-level S::Comments). But because legal comments are pushed via the same buffer, any legal comment that lands past comments_base after the last take_arg_leading_comments drain — or in the empty-parens case where take_arg_leading_comments never runs at all — is deleted along with them.

    Step-by-step trace: function foo(/*! @license MIT */) {}

    Pre-PR:

    1. p.lexer.expect(TOpenParen) calls next(), which scans the /*! @license MIT */ comment. has_legal_annotation = true → pushed to comments_to_preserve_before (index 0).
    2. Arg loop condition: token == TCloseParen → loop body never runs.
    3. expect(TCloseParen), then parse_fn_body → expect(TOpenBrace) → parse_stmts_up_to.
    4. First iteration of parse_stmts_up_to drains comments_to_preserve_before → emits S::Comment { text: "/*! @license MIT */" } into func.body.stmts.
    5. Printer emits the comment inside the function body. Comment preserved.

    Post-PR:

    1. comments_base = 0, preserve_all_comments_before = true.
    2. expect(TOpenParen) → next() scans the legal comment → pushed at index 0 (same as before; has_legal_annotation OR preserve_all_comments_before — both true now).
    3. Arg loop: token == TCloseParen → loop body never runs, so take_arg_leading_comments is never called.
    4. truncate(comments_base) = truncate(0) → the legal comment is deleted.
    5. parse_stmts_up_to sees an empty buffer. Comment lost.

    Second trace: function foo(x /*! @preserve */) {}

    1. comments_base = 0. expect(TOpenParen) → next() → token = x, buffer empty.
    2. Arg loop iteration: take_arg_leading_comments(0) runs — buffer is empty → returns EMPTY.
    3. parse_binding consumes x; its next() scans /*! @preserve */ → pushed at index 0.
    4. token == TCloseParen → break.
    5. truncate(0) deletes the legal comment. Pre-PR, this same comment was pushed via has_legal_annotation and survived into S::Comment.

    The same applies to function foo(x = 1 /*! @license */) {} — the legal comment is scanned after the default expression, past the point where take_arg_leading_comments already ran for that arg.

    Why existing code doesn't prevent it

    take_arg_leading_comments only runs at the start of each arg-loop iteration, before parse_binding. Any comment scanned after that point (after the binding, after a default value, or in empty parens where the loop never enters) sits in the buffer until the post-loop truncate. The truncate makes no distinction between ordinary comments (which this PR intentionally captures and wants to drop here) and legal comments (which were captured pre-PR too and should survive).

    Note: legal comments that appear before an arg binding are actually fine post-PR — they're drained into arg.leading_comments and re-emitted by the printer. Only the empty-parens and after-last-arg-drain positions regress.

    Impact

    This is a genuine behavioral regression: /*! ... */ and //! ... legal-annotation comments inside a function parameter list were previously preserved in output and are now silently dropped. That said, legal/license comments placed inside a parameter list (as opposed to at file or function-header scope) are essentially nonexistent in real code, and the pre-PR "preservation" was itself a relocation into the body rather than positionally-correct output. Marking as a nit rather than blocking.

    Fix

    Instead of a blanket truncate(comments_base), filter the tail to retain legal-annotation entries:

    // Drop ordinary comments captured between the last arg and `)`, but keep
    // legal (`/*!` / `//!`) comments — those were pushed regardless of
    // preserve_all_comments_before and should still surface as S::Comment.
    let buf = &mut p.lexer.comments_to_preserve_before;
    let mut i = comments_base;
    while i < buf.len() {
        let t = buf[i].text.slice();
        if t.len() > 2 && t[2] == b'!' {
            i += 1;
        } else {
            buf.remove(i);
        }
    }
    p.lexer.preserve_all_comments_before = old_preserve_comments;

    (or equivalently buf.drain(comments_base..) and re-push the !-prefixed ones).

Comment thread src/js_printer/lib.rs Resolved
Comments inside a binding pattern, TS type, or default value were being
captured and migrated to the next argument, and legal comments drained
into leading_comments were dropped under --minify. Restrict capture to
the whitespace between `(`/`,` and the next binding, and leave legal
(`/*!` / `//!`) comments on the existing S::Comment path.
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Addressed the review findings in 5fb70a2:

  • Comment migration / nested-body leak / import() interaction: preserve_all_comments_before is now raised only for the whitespace between (/, and the next binding, and restored before parse_binding / TS annotations / default-value parsing. function(a = /* x */ 1, b), function(a /* t */, b) and function(a = () => { return 1 /* mid */ + 2; }, b) all round-trip the same as before this PR (verified; regression test extended to cover them).
  • Legal comments: take_arg_leading_comments leaves /*! / //! entries in comments_to_preserve_before, and the post-loop cleanup filters instead of truncating, so legal comments in any parameter-list position continue down the existing S::Comment path and survive --minify. Added a minify test for function(/*! @license MIT */ x) and function(/*! @preserve */).

I did not change parse_import_expr's unconditional .clear() / = false since it is pre-existing and no longer interacts with this code path (the flag is already restored before default-value parsing runs).

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Additional findings (outside current diff — PR may have been updated during review):

  • 🔴 src/js_parser/parse/parse_fn.rs:261 — preserve_all_comments_before stays on across parse_binding, skip_type_script_type, and the default-value parse_expr, so a comment written inside one argument is captured and then re-emitted somewhere else: function(a = /* opts */ {}, b) {} prints as function(a = {}, /* opts */ b) {} (di now extracts "opts" for b — a new wrong-provider failure), and function(a = /* note */ () => { return 1 }) {} drains /* note */ into the arrow body as an S::Comment that survives --minify. Restore preserve_all_comments_before = old_preserve_comments around the binding/type/default parses so the flag only covers the gap from (/, to the start of the binding — truncating after each args.push fixes the first case but not the nested-body leak.

    Extended reasoning...

    What the bug is

    parse_fn enables p.lexer.preserve_all_comments_before = true at line 201 and does not restore it until line 368, after the whole while p.lexer.token != T::TCloseParen loop. Inside each iteration, take_arg_leading_comments(comments_base) runs first (line 261) and then the loop goes on to call parse_binding, optionally skip_type_script_type, and optionally parse_expr(Level::Comma) for the default value — all while the flag is still true. Any ordinary comment scanned during those calls is pushed into comments_to_preserve_before even though it is not a "leading comment before the parameter binding". Nothing between args.push(...) and the next iteration's take_arg_leading_comments clears the buffer, so those stray comments end up in one of two wrong sinks.

    Sink (a): misattributed to the next argument

    Step-by-step for function(a = /* opts */ {}, b) {}:

    1. Line 199: comments_base = 0; line 201 sets preserve_all_comments_before = true; expect(TOpenParen) advances to a.
    2. Iter 1: take_arg_leading_comments(0) — buffer is empty → EMPTY. parse_binding consumes a. Token is =; p.lexer.next() scans /* opts */ and, because the flag is on, pushes it (index 0). parse_expr consumes {}. args.push(a) with leading_comments = EMPTY. p.lexer.next() past ,.
    3. Iter 2: take_arg_leading_comments(0) sees buf.len() == 1 > 0 and drains [/* opts */] → attached to b.
    4. Printer at lib.rs:2111 emits it before b: function(a = {}, /* opts */ b) {}.

    Pre-PR, preserve_all_comments_before was false here so /* opts */ was never pushed and the output was function(a = {}, b) {}. di's FN_ARG regex on the second comma-split segment now matches /* opts */ and extracts "opts" instead of "b" — the exact wrong-provider failure mode this PR was opened to fix, freshly introduced for an adjacent shape. The same mechanism relocates function({/* c */ x}, y) → function({x}, /* c */ y) and, in TS, function(x: /* T */ number, y) → function(x, /* T */ y).

    Sink (b): leaked into a nested body as S::Comment, surviving --minify

    Step-by-step for function outer(a = /* note */ () => { return 1 }) {}:

    1. Iter 1: take_arg_leading_comments(0) → EMPTY. parse_binding(a). next() past = pushes /* note */. parse_expr → arrow → parse_arrow_body → parse_fn_body → parse_stmts_up_to(TCloseBrace).
    2. parse_stmts_up_to (mod.rs:1454-1458) iterates comments_to_preserve_before, emits S::Comment("/* note */") at the top of the arrow body, and clears the buffer — before the outer loop ever pushes a or reaches the post-loop truncate.
    3. The printer's SComment arm (lib.rs:4901-4904) calls print_indented_comment with no minify_whitespace gate.

    Under --minify the output is function outer(a=()=>{/* note */return 1}){}; pre-PR it was function outer(a=()=>{return 1}){}. The same happens for function(a = /* c */ function(){}) (the inner parse_fn snapshots comments_base_inner = 1, so its truncate(1) leaves /* c */ at index 0 in place and the inner parse_fn_body → parse_stmts_up_to swallows it), and for // note line comments, which print_indented_comment follows with a hard \n even when minifying.

    Why existing code doesn't prevent it

    The only consumers of comments_to_preserve_before are parse_stmts_up_to (mod.rs:1454-1458), parse_import_export.rs:49, lexer restore(), the new post-loop truncate(comments_base), and take_arg_leading_comments itself. None of those run between finishing one argument's binding/type/default and the next iteration's drain — except parse_stmts_up_to when a nested brace body appears in a default, which is precisely sink (b). Truncating to comments_base right after each args.push would fix (a) but cannot fix (b), because the drain into S::Comment happens during parse_expr for the current argument, before the push.

    Impact

    This PR's purpose is to make Function.prototype.toString() reflect the authored comment positions. For any comment inside a destructuring pattern, TS type, or default value it instead relocates the comment to a position it was never written — either in front of the next parameter (breaking di-style annotation parsing in a way that did not happen before this PR) or inside a nested function body. Under --minify, ordinary non-legal comments now survive in nested default bodies where pre-PR they were stripped. All of this is new behavior introduced by this change and belongs to the same bug class being fixed here.

    Fix

    Scope the flag to only the gap between (/, and the start of the binding. Concretely, right after let leading_comments = p.take_arg_leading_comments(comments_base); restore p.lexer.preserve_all_comments_before = old_preserve_comments;, and re-enable it just before p.lexer.next()? that advances past the comma (and before the loop continue in the TThis branch). Alternatively, wrap parse_binding / skip_type_script_type / the default-value parse_expr in a save-restore of the flag. Either approach fixes both sinks; the "truncate after each push" band-aid fixes only (a).

  • 🔴 src/js_parser/parse/parse_fn.rs:366-368 — The blanket truncate(comments_base) here drops legal comments (/*! ... */, //! ...) that were scanned inside the parens but never drained into any arg.leading_comments — the empty-list case function foo(/*! @license */) {} (loop body never runs) and the trailing case function foo(x /*! @license */) {} (take_arg_leading_comments runs before parse_binding, so the comment lands after the drain). Pre-PR these flowed through to parse_stmts_up_to → S::Comment and printed even under minify; now they're silently discarded. This is the companion to the printer-gate issue at lib.rs:2111 — that one covers legal comments that were drained; this covers the ones that weren't, so the "skip legal comments in take_arg_leading_comments" fix suggested there also needs the truncate to preserve text[2] == b'!' entries.

    Extended reasoning...

    What the bug is

    The lexer pushes legal comments (/*! ... */ / //! ...) into comments_to_preserve_before unconditionally — lexer.rs:2244 gates on has_legal_annotation || self.preserve_all_comments_before, and has_legal_annotation is text[2] == b'!' (lexer.rs:2198). So a legal comment inside a parameter list lands in the buffer regardless of this PR's preserve_all_comments_before = true toggle — it landed there pre-PR too.

    Pre-PR, nothing between expect(TOpenParen) and parse_fn_body touched that buffer, so the legal comment survived to parse_stmts_up_to (mod.rs:1454-1458), which drains the buffer into an S::Comment at the top of the loop before the eend check — meaning even an empty {} body emits the S::Comment. The printer's SComment arm calls print_indented_comment with no minify_whitespace gate, so the legal comment printed even under --minify.

    Post-PR, the new truncate(comments_base) after the arg loop deletes any buffer entry at index >= comments_base that wasn't already drained by take_arg_leading_comments. Two shapes hit this.

    Step-by-step: empty parameter list

    Input: function foo(/*! @license MIT */) {}

    1. comments_base = buf.len() (say 0), preserve_all_comments_before = true, expect(TOpenParen).
    2. Advancing past ( scans /*! @license MIT */; has_legal_annotation is true → pushed at index 0.
    3. Lexer lands on ). while p.lexer.token != T::TCloseParen — condition false, loop body never runs, take_arg_leading_comments never called.
    4. buf.truncate(0) — the legal comment is deleted.
    5. parse_fn_body → parse_stmts_up_to: buffer is empty, no S::Comment.
    6. Output (any mode): function foo() {} — the /*! @license MIT */ is gone.

    Pre-PR, step 4 didn't exist; the comment survived to step 5 and became function foo() {/*! @license MIT */}.

    Step-by-step: trailing after the last arg

    Input: function foo(x /*! @license */) {}

    1. comments_base = 0, expect(TOpenParen) → token is x, buffer empty.
    2. Loop iteration: take_arg_leading_comments(0) runs first — buffer is empty, returns EMPTY.
    3. parse_binding consumes x; the lexer's next() advancing past x scans /*! @license */ and pushes it at index 0.
    4. Token is ), not , → break.
    5. buf.truncate(0) — the legal comment is deleted.

    Pre-PR, again, step 5 didn't exist and the comment reached S::Comment.

    Why existing code doesn't prevent it

    take_arg_leading_comments only runs at the top of each loop iteration, so it can only capture comments scanned before the current arg's first token. Anything scanned while advancing past the binding, the type annotation, the default expression, or the final ,-vs-) lookahead sits in the buffer at loop exit and is unconditionally truncated. Legal comments are the only class that would have been in that buffer pre-PR (non-legal ones weren't pushed without preserve_all_comments_before), so they're the only regression here.

    Relationship to the lib.rs:2111 comment

    The already-posted comment at lib.rs:2111 covers legal comments that were drained into arg.leading_comments (leading position, e.g. function foo(/*! ... */ x) {}) and then dropped by the printer's !minify_whitespace gate. This bug covers legal comments that never reach leading_comments because they're truncated first. Fixing only the printer gate leaves both shapes above broken. And notably, one of the fixes suggested there — "have take_arg_leading_comments skip legal comments so they continue down the S::Comment path" — is defeated by this truncate unless it's fixed too: the skipped legal comment would sit in the buffer and get truncated on loop exit.

    Impact

    Functional regression in the bundler's legal-comment preservation guarantee. Legal comments are the one class contractually kept across minification; a /*! @license ... */ placed inside an empty or trailing-position parameter list silently disappears from bundled output where it previously survived. Edge-case placement in practice, but a real behavioral change from pre-PR.

    Fix

    Instead of a blanket truncate(comments_base), retain entries at index >= comments_base whose text[2] == b'!' (e.g. buf.drain(comments_base..).filter(is_legal).collect() back, or in-place retain over the tail). Equivalently — and this composes cleanly with the lib.rs:2111 fix — have take_arg_leading_comments leave legal comments in the buffer and have the post-loop cleanup drop only non-legal entries, so legal comments flow to S::Comment exactly as they did pre-PR.

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The two findings in the latest automated review (flag held across parse_binding/type/default; blanket truncate dropping trailing legal comments) were analyzed against the pre-5fb70a2c2a diff and are already addressed there:

  • After take_arg_leading_comments, the flag is restored to old_preserve_comments and only re-raised immediately before consuming the comma, so binding/type/default parses run with the flag off.
  • The post-loop cleanup is discard_non_legal_comments_from(comments_base), which retains /*! / //! entries.

Spot-checked on the current build:

function(x /*! @license trail */)  -> function(x){/*! @license trail */...}   (minified; matches main)
function(/* note */ a = /* opts */ {}, b)  -> function(/* note */ a = {}, b)  (/* opts */ not migrated)

Comment thread src/js_parser/parse/parse_fn.rs Resolved
Comment thread src/js_parser/parse/parse_fn.rs Resolved
…ase before each gap

Comments inside `this: /* c */ T` or `@dec(/* c */)` were captured with
the flag still raised and relocated onto the next real argument. Lower
the flag (and discard any non-legal buffer entries) before entering the
TThis branch, and around parse_type_script_decorators.

Also re-snapshot comments_base before each comma scan so a nested
.clear() during default-value parsing can't cause a later arg's leading
comment to be mis-indexed.
Comment thread src/js_parser/parse/parse_fn.rs Resolved
A block-bodied arrow inside a decorator argument reaches
parse_stmts_up_to which .clear()s comments_to_preserve_before, so a
comment captured before @dec was being relocated into the nested body.
Stash it into the leading-comment accumulator before decorator parsing
(and re-snapshot comments_base after), then drain again after `...` for
anything captured in the remaining gap.

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No further findings on 3a58b80 — the decorator-body drain issue from the last round is addressed by draining into leading before parse_type_script_decorators(). This still touches lexer-state save/restore across every branch of parse_fn's argument loop, so worth a human pass before merge.

What was reviewed:

  • Flag scoping: preserve_all_comments_before is raised only across the (/,→binding gap and restored before parse_binding, type annotations, default values, decorators, and the this-param branch.
  • Legal comments: is_legal_comment filtering leaves /*!///! in the buffer so they still flow to S::Comment under --minify; post-loop cleanup uses discard_non_legal_comments_from rather than truncate.
  • comments_base is re-snapshotted before each re-raise (both comma paths, post-decorator, post-this), and both helpers floor base at buf.len() so a nested .clear() can't strand later captures below the base.
  • Printer: line comments are wrapped as /* … */ and dropped if they contain */; the whole block is gated on !minify_whitespace, which is safe because legal comments never reach arg.leading_comments.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR adds a leading_comments field to G::Arg, captures inline comments between (/, and each parameter binding in parse_fn, and re-emits them in print_fn_args. This restores Karma/AngularJS-style DI-token comments in Function.prototype.toString() output. Four files: src/ast/g.rs (+5), src/js_parser/parse/parse_fn.rs (+58), src/js_printer/lib.rs (+17), plus a new regression test.

Security risks

None. This is comment preservation in the transpiler; no untrusted-input parsing beyond what the lexer already does, no auth/crypto/permissions.

Level of scrutiny

High. parse_fn runs for every function in every transpiled file, and the change threads mutable lexer state (preserve_all_comments_before, comments_to_preserve_before) through a loop with five distinct exit/continue shapes (this-param continue, this-param break, decorator path, rest-arg path, comma vs. break). Three prior review rounds each found a comment-migration or legal-comment regression on a path the previous fix missed; the current revision addresses all of them, but the number of interacting branches is exactly the kind of thing a maintainer familiar with the parser should eyeball.

Other factors

  • All previously-flagged issues (legal-comment loss under minify, migration from default values / trailing positions / this annotations / decorator arguments, stale comments_base after nested .clear()) are covered by the current diff and by the three tests in 13451.test.ts.
  • I checked that the flag is restored on the loop's normal exit and on the this-param break; error-path (?) exits leave it raised, but those abort the parse so lexer state is moot.
  • Arg::deep_clone copies leading_comments by value (StoreSlice is Copy), matching how other StoreSlice fields are handled in the same file.
  • The leading ArenaVec is allocated per-iteration even when allow_ts_decorators is false and stays empty until the second drain — a minor allocation-in-hot-loop concern a reviewer may want to weigh in on, though ArenaVec::new_in is cheap when never pushed to.
  • One residual quirk I noted but did not flag: function(... /* c */ x) will print as function(/* c */ ...x) (comment moves before the ...), since the drain happens after advancing past TDotDotDot. Cosmetic and not a regression.

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Beyond the inline nit, I re-verified the prior-round findings against the current diff: legal comments in take_arg_leading_comments are skipped and survive --minify via the S::Comment path; the TThis and decorator branches now discard/drain before nested parsing so comments can't migrate onto the wrong arg; comments_base is re-snapshotted at each gap so a nested .clear() can't strand entries below the base. Also confirmed every other G::Arg construction site uses ..Default::default(), so the new field needs no call-site updates. Arrow-function args go through a separate parse path and are intentionally out of scope (Karma's di regex only matches the function keyword).

Extended reasoning...

This parser change has been through four review rounds; every substantive finding I raised (legal-comment minify regression, TS this-param/decorator comment migration, stale comments_base after nested .clear(), decorator-body swallowing pre-@ comments) is addressed in the current diff and the fixes trace correctly. Only a test-harness nit remains this run. I'm not approving because this is state-heavy logic in the JS parser hot path — a maintainer should eyeball the final flag-toggle shape in parse_fn before merge.

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No new issues this pass, but this threads mutable lexer state through the parse_fn hot path and took four review rounds to stabilize — worth a maintainer's eye before merge.

What was reviewed:

  • Legal-comment (/*!, //!) preservation under --minify — is_legal_comment matches the lexer's own predicate and legal entries stay on the S::Comment path.
  • Comment migration onto adjacent args via this: params, decorators, default values, trailing position, and nested block bodies — flag is now scoped to the (/,-to-binding gap and comments_base re-snapshotted at each raise.
  • All other G::Arg construction sites use ..Default::default(), so the new field is EMPTY everywhere else.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Adds G::Arg::leading_comments and populates it in parse_fn by toggling lexer.preserve_all_comments_before around each argument gap, then re-emits those comments in print_fn_args. Fixes Karma/AngularJS DI which parses Function.prototype.toString() for /* token */ annotations. Four files touched: AST struct, parser, printer, plus a new regression test.

Security risks

None. Pure transpiler-output change; no untrusted-input parsing beyond what the lexer already does, no new syscalls or FFI.

Level of scrutiny

High. parse_fn runs for every function/method in every file the runtime transpiles or the bundler builds. The change is a small state machine (flag raise/lower + buffer-index snapshotting) interleaved with existing recursive parse calls (parse_type_script_decorators, skip_type_script_type, parse_binding, default-value parse_expr), several of which can themselves clear or append to comments_to_preserve_before. Earlier revisions of this PR had four separate correctness issues in exactly those interactions (legal comments dropped under minify; comments migrating from erased this/decorators onto real args; stale comments_base after a nested .clear(); decorator-body swallowing a pre-captured comment). All were addressed and now have test coverage, but the density of edge cases is why I'm not auto-approving.

Other factors

  • Error paths: several ? early-returns can leave preserve_all_comments_before = true on the lexer, but a syntax error aborts the parse entirely so the stale flag is not observable. Not flagging as a bug.
  • Verified every G::Arg { .. } site in the tree uses ..Default::default(), so no site silently drops the new field.
  • The printer converts // line comments to /* */ and drops the pathological // ... */ case rather than emitting broken output — reasonable.
  • Arrow-function parameter comments are still not preserved (parse_arrow_body doesn't go through parse_fn); that's fine for the Karma use case and out of scope here.
  • Test file uses test.concurrent, hermetic tempDirs, drains both pipes, and asserts exit code last.

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CI status for this diff:

Build #87489: 191 jobs passed. Remaining failures are unrelated to this change:

  • test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts segfault at 0x600000030 on windows-11-aarch64 only (dev-server WebSocket teardown after a closeActiveConnections timeout; this diff does not touch src/bake/, dev-server, or http). Reported for main-break triage.
  • test/cli/install/bun-upgrade.test.ts (windows-aarch64) and test/regression/issue/36577.test.ts (windows-x64), both tagged pre-existing on main.
  • 8 tests tagged [flaky] (passed alone / on retry): password leak threshold, tty-reopen, node-module-module, request-clone-leak, etc.
  • 3 lanes never ran due to agent provisioning failures (AWS EC2 Unsupported x2, Azure ARM SubscriptionRequestsThrottled x1).

Earlier builds #87281 and #87353 failed with every build job expired (no agents picked them up).

The new test test/regression/issue/13451/13451.test.ts passed on every lane that ran it. The robobun/evidence gate passed (fails without the fix, passes with it on ASAN and release). Format / Lint / clippy / miri / comment-cop are green.

Ready for review.

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Closing this PR because it has been inactive for more than 90 days.

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#47678 replaces this PR with another design: the parser keeps the source text of a parameter list that holds a comment in a side table, and the printer writes that text. It adds no field to G::Arg and leaves bun build output as it is. This PR stays closed. Its description said that Karma starts with this change. That was never confirmed for this branch.

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