[robobun]

Problem

• util.inspect() of the AbortError that timers/promises, events.once, fs.promises, stream, child_process and Bun.spawn({ signal }) produce prints Error [AbortError]: The operation was aborted; node prints AbortError: The operation was aborted. Same for everything built on util.inspect: util.format('%o'), new Console(...), node:assert failure messages, the node:test reporter.
• err.constructor is Error (node: a function named AbortError), so ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE messages that receive one of these errors say Received an instance of Error (node: an instance of AbortError), via determineSpecificType() in src/jsc/bindings/ErrorCode.cpp:505.
• Cause: every ABORT_ERR error shares one prototype built by createErrorPrototype (src/jsc/bindings/ErrorCode.cpp:104). It carries name and code but no constructor, so the lookup falls through to Error.prototype.constructor. util.inspect's getConstructorName() then reports Error, and improveStack() appends [AbortError] because the reported constructor differs from err.name. The native console.log / Bun.inspect path reads err.name and was already right.

Fix

• When the ABORT_ERR structure is built (createErrorStructure), create a function named AbortError and wire it the way class AbortError extends Error {} would be: prototype.constructor (non-enumerable), AbortError.prototype (non-writable, non-configurable), and Error as the function's [[Prototype]]. The function's construct behavior is the existing jsFunctionMakeAbortError host function (the one behind $makeAbortError), so new err.constructor(message, { cause }) builds a regular ABORT_ERR error. Calling it without new runs the same builtin and returns an error too; node's class throws there, which nothing depends on, so that form is incidental and not tested. jsFunctionMakeAbortError moves into the Bun namespace and is declared in ErrorCode.h so both files share one declaration.
• Since that function is now reachable as err.constructor, its options check becomes node's options !== undefined && typeof options !== 'object' (JSC::jsTypeofIsObject). The old check only looked at heap cells, so a number, boolean or function as options was silently ignored; now it throws ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE with node's wording, and null is still accepted. No builtin passes anything other than undefined or an object literal.
• Matches node: its AbortError is a real class (lib/internal/errors.js), so err.constructor.name === 'AbortError', err instanceof err.constructor, Object.getPrototypeOf(err.constructor) === Error, and one class is shared by every producer. Both of Bun's entry points ($makeAbortError from the JS builtins, Bun__wrapAbortError from Rust) go through the same cached structure, so one change covers all of the APIs above, and the non-cached fallback used for non-Bun globals takes the same path.
• Scoped to ABORT_ERR on purpose: node v26 explicitly sets constructor on its ERR_* prototypes back to the base class (TypeError, RangeError, ...), so err.constructor === TypeError holds there, which is what Bun's inherited lookup already gives and what vendored node tests (test-worker-message-port*.js, test/js/bun/util/error-code-mirror.test.ts) assert. The constructor property is non-enumerable, so Bun.deepEquals / toEqual between these errors, for...in, and Object.keys are unchanged.
• Other output that changes with it: bun:test's pretty-format renders these errors as [AbortError: ...] instead of [Error: ...] (jest prints node's AbortError the same way), and toThrow() mismatch messages name the received constructor AbortError.
• Test: test/js/node/errors/abort-error-constructor.test.ts creates the error through timers/promises, events.once (JS entry point), fs.promises.readFile and Bun.spawn (Rust entry point) and checks the util.inspect header, that all four share one class with the attributes a class declaration produces, new err.constructor(...) (custom message + cause, defaults, null options, and number / boolean / bigint / string / symbol / function options rejected with node's messages), the ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE wording, the bun:test rendering, and that an ERR_* error still reports TypeError as its constructor. Every assertion except the bun:test one was also run as a script against node v26.3.0.
  • bun bd test test/js/node/errors/abort-error-constructor.test.ts: 7 pass
  • same file without the src/ change (rebuilt with it stashed, and again with the released 1.4.0 binary after the options test was added): 6 fail, 1 pass (the ERR_* control)
  • bun bd test on error-code-mirror, timers.promises, event-emitter, fs/promises, spawn-signal and the util-inspect/util-format ports: 144 pass, 1 timeout in util-inspect.test.js unrelated to this change (the machine was at load 40+; the file's CI budget is 1.5s)
  • the vendored node tests mentioning AbortError that also introspect the error (test-stream-finished, test-stream-pipeline, test-stream-filter, test-stream-add-abort-signal, test-events-once, test-fs-promises-watch, test-whatwg-webstreams-adapters-to-writablestream, test-diagnostics-channel-http2-client-stream-error) pass with the debug build

Background

• ErrorCodeCache (ErrorCode.cpp): for each code in src/jsc/bindings/ErrorCode.ts, Bun lazily builds one prototype object (name, code, toString) and one JSC Structure whose prototype it is, and caches the structure per global object. Every error with that code is a JSC ErrorInstance created from that structure, so anything put on the prototype is shared by all of them, and instanceof against a function works as long as the function's .prototype is that object.
• util.inspect error header: getConstructorName() walks the prototype chain for an own constructor data property whose function has a non-empty name and which the value is an instanceof; improveStack() then prints <constructor> [<name>] whenever that constructor name differs from err.name. So fixing the header means giving the error a real constructor, not patching inspect.js (which is a port of node's code and behaves exactly like node given the same object).
• JSC::JSFunction::create(..., nativeFunction, ..., nativeConstructor): a host function becomes constructible when a native constructor callback is supplied; new F() calls it and uses the object it returns, so one host function that always returns a fresh error serves both F() and new F(). Node's class is not exported, so err.constructor is the only way to reach this function; subclassing it is not supported (instances take the ABORT_ERR prototype regardless of new.target).
• Related open work that does not touch the constructor: node errors: stringify AbortError and HPE_* errors without the [code] bracket like node #39280 (toString() bracket), node errors: include [ERR_*] code bracket in .stack header #35934 (.stack header bracket), node errors: make .code an own property on ERR_* errors #35926 (own code property).

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

Changes

AbortError compatibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Error-code-based AbortError factory src/jsc/bindings/ErrorCode.cpp	Error creation now derives metadata from ErrorCode and installs dedicated AbortError constructor and prototype behavior for ABORT_ERR.
Abort host-function declaration and validation src/jsc/bindings/ErrorCode.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/ErrorCode.h, src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp	The host function is namespaced under Bun, declared in the binding header, and rejects defined non-object options.
Node-compatible AbortError tests test/js/node/errors/abort-error-constructor.test.ts	Tests cover shared constructors and prototypes, formatting, constructor options, invalid arguments, and unrelated error constructors.

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[robobun]

Status: ready for review.

Reproduced on main with bun -e "require('timers/promises').setTimeout(10, null, { signal: AbortSignal.abort() }).catch(e => console.log(require('util').inspect(e).split('\n')[0], '|', e.constructor.name))", which prints Error [AbortError]: The operation was aborted | Error (node v26.3.0: AbortError: The operation was aborted | AbortError). The same output comes from events.once, fs.promises.*, stream, child_process and Bun.spawn({ signal }), since they all share the one ABORT_ERR prototype.

Test: test/js/node/errors/abort-error-constructor.test.ts (6 of its 7 tests fail without the src/ change, all 7 pass with it).

Review follow-ups so far: the options validation of the constructor now uses node's typeof rule (41167d0), the explanatory comment was shortened (71356c4), and the rejected-options test matrix gained bigint and symbol (793c4f7). All review threads are resolved. The CodeRabbit comments on this PR are only its rate-limit notices.

[claude]

Beyond the inline nit, I also checked: the constructor JSFunction is reachable via cache → structure → prototype → constructor (all WriteBarrier'd), so no extra rooting is needed; the old createErrorStructure(VM&, JSGlobalObject*, ErrorType, ASCIILiteral, ASCIILiteral) overload is still called at ErrorCode.cpp:1074 and is not dead; and unqualified jsFunctionMakeAbortError in ZigGlobalObject.cpp resolves the same way jsFunctionMakeErrorWithCode already does after the namespace move.

Extended reasoning...

The inline finding is a pre-existing nit on jsFunctionMakeAbortError's options validation that this PR newly exposes as err.constructor. Separately I traced the GC ownership of the new AbortError JSFunction (held by the cached structure's prototype, which ErrorCodeCache::visitChildrenImpl reaches via its internal fields), confirmed the four-arg createErrorStructure overload still has a caller at line 1074 so it isn't dead code, and confirmed the Bun:: namespace move doesn't break the ZigGlobalObject.cpp call site since it uses the same unqualified-lookup path as the sibling jsFunctionMakeErrorWithCode.

[robobun]

^{Updated 9:58 PM PT - Aug 15th, 2026}

@robobun, your commit 793c4f7 is building: #99149

[robobun]

Addressed the review so far:

• options validation in jsFunctionMakeAbortError (inline comment above): switched to node's rule, options !== undefined && typeof options !== 'object', via JSC::jsTypeofIsObject (41167d0). Numbers, booleans and functions now throw ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE with node's wording, null still passes; the test file gained a case covering each of those values, checked against node v26.3.0.
• The comment in createErrorStructure is down to one line (71356c4); the reasoning is in the PR description.

The PR description is updated for both. The remaining bot comments are CodeRabbit's rate-limit notices, nothing to act on there.

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[robobun]

Follow-up for the latest review round: bigint and symbol were added to the rejected-options matrix in 793c4f7 (messages match node v26.3.0). The suggested test for calling the constructor without new is intentionally not added, since node's class throws in that case and the plain-call form here is incidental; the description now says so. All review threads are resolved; the other CodeRabbit comments are rate-limit notices.

[claude]

I re-reviewed after the follow-up commits and didn't find any issues — the jsTypeofIsObject guard now matches Node's typeof rule and the test matrix covers every primitive. Because this wires a new user-reachable constructor into the shared ABORT_ERR prototype in the JSC bindings, a human look is still worthwhile.

Checked: GC reachability of the new AbortError function (cache → structure → prototype → constructor via putDirect, all barriered); that setPrototypeDirect/putDirect here don't need exception checks; that the unqualified jsFunctionMakeAbortError at ZigGlobalObject.cpp:3152 still resolves via using namespace Bun; and that data in ErrorCodeCache::createError is still live (used for data.type at the ErrorInstance::create call).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR gives Bun's node-shaped AbortError a real constructor so util.inspect prints AbortError: ... instead of Error [AbortError]: ..., matching Node. It adds a ~14-line createErrorStructure(vm, globalObject, ErrorCode) overload in ErrorCode.cpp that, for ABORT_ERR only, creates a JSFunction named AbortError, wires prototype.constructor / constructor.prototype with class-declaration attributes, and sets Error as the function's [[Prototype]]. jsFunctionMakeAbortError (already the $makeAbortError builtin) becomes both the call and construct callback, moves into the Bun namespace with a header declaration, and its options check is switched to !isUndefined() && !jsTypeofIsObject() to match Node's typeof rule. A 177-line test file exercises four producers (JS-builtin and Rust entry points), the inspect header, class-shape attributes, new err.constructor(...) with defaults/cause/null, the full rejected-options primitive matrix, ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE wording, bun:test formatting, and a control that other ERR_* errors still report their base constructor.

Security risks

None identified. No untrusted input reaches new parsing or allocation; the only new user-reachable surface is err.constructor, which routes to the existing jsFunctionMakeAbortError host function whose validation this PR tightens.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. The logic is small and follows standard JSC patterns (JSFunction::create with a native constructor, putDirect, setPrototypeDirect), and the constructor is only built once per global and cached. But it lives in the C++ error-creation machinery shared by every ABORT_ERR error across timers, events, fs, streams, child_process and Bun.spawn, and it exposes a previously-internal host function as a user-reachable constructor — the kind of prototype/constructor wiring the repo's review guidelines flag for careful native-code review.

Other factors

Since my previous review: the isCell() gap was fixed with jsTypeofIsObject (41167d0), the explanatory comment was shortened (71356c4), and bigint/symbol were added to the rejected-options test (793c4f7). All review threads are resolved. I verified GC reachability (the constructor is held by prototype.constructor via putDirect; the prototype is held by the cached Structure in ErrorCodeCache's WriteBarrier internal fields), that none of the new calls need exception checks, that the old 4-arg createErrorStructure overload is still used (line 1071) so nothing goes dead, and that ZigGlobalObject.cpp's unqualified reference resolves via its file-level using namespace Bun. The tests are thorough and were verified to fail without the src/ change. Deferring only because this is JSC-bindings C++ touching shared error prototype shape, not because of any concrete concern.

[robobun]

This also fixes #40342: the AbortError from child_process.spawn, fs.promises.readFile, and http.request with a pre-aborted signal has constructor.name "Error" instead of "AbortError". All of those paths go through the shared ABORT_ERR prototype this PR fixes.

[robobun]

I reached the same fix for #40342 from the ledger report and stopped short of a second PR, since this one owns the constructor change.

For reference, branch farm/95a67d5c/node-abort-error-class (commit d7d8204) is the all-in-one variant of the AbortError shape: the same AbortError constructor, a prototype that holds only constructor (so toString() is Error.prototype.toString, as in #39280), code and name as own enumerable properties on each instance (the AbortError part of #35926), and new.target handling so class Foo extends err.constructor works. Its test is test/js/node/errors/abort-error.test.ts (spawn, fs.promises.readFile, http.request with a pre-aborted signal). Pick whichever shape is easier to review.