test: read the embedded module graph from the .bun section in compile splitting tests

[robobun]

Problem

• Five cases of bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts inspect the compiled executable by reading the whole file (800 MB in a debug build), one as a latin1 string searched five times (26 s in a local debug run). They open out, but a Windows target writes out.exe.
• MinChunkSizeKeepsEntryChunkImportable used a top-level await import(), which disables every chunk fold by itself, so the --compile pin it describes was never exercised. The startup-run case described internal-module bytecode its fixture did not have.

Fix

• New test/bundler/standalone-graph.ts parses the embedded module graph from the section that holds it (ELF .bun, Mach-O __BUN,__bun, PE .bun, a few KB each) and throws for any other file. On Windows it opens out.exe. It pins that every bytecode region sits at 120 mod 128 in the payload, the alignment JSC needs.
• Every case checks the embedded layout next to its run: module count and names, each import names an embedded module, bytecode present exactly when --bytecode is set, no fs/promises in any dead-import chunk, and the chunk that holds the dead import requests no module in its record. 48 expect() calls become 377.
• The three layout cases (Lay out the --compile module graph in load order #40274, Compiled executables: prefetch the startup bytecode on a cold start #40407, compile: keep chunk-[hash] names inside executables #40498) share one executable and now pin the internal-module bytecode (node:fs) in the startup run. 22 compiles become 20. All other cases keep their names.
• The MinChunkSize fixture uses import().then(), and an uncompiled twin (no extra compile) asserts the fold the pin blocks: shared lands in entry.js. An import() target without exports whose chunk absorbs a helper covers the other half of the pin clause.
• Verified: bun bd test test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts, 21 pass after the rebase onto compile: resolve module record names through the bytecode string table #40677. CI asan, file run solo: 43.3 s (build 105983, 16 cases) to 34.9 s and 35.6 s (builds 106601 and 106752, 17 compiles, before compile: load an executable's embedded ES module graph without per-import round trips #40643 added two cases). Local debug ASAN build: 84.3 s (main at 2c0284e, 19 cases) to 52.1 s (18 cases, 17 compiles).

Background

• --compile appends a module graph (StandaloneModuleGraph.rs, to_bytes) to a copy of the bun binary, rewritten in memory (bun build --compile: skip redundant on-disk copy and mmap the source executable #33621 is the runtime-side fix for that cost). On Linux the graph is the ELF .bun section, 330 MB before the end of the file.
• mergeSmallChunks.rs folds a chunk into the entry's chunk when the entry is guaranteed to load first. --compile pins the entry chunk. Top-level await in the entry guarantees nothing, so no fold happens either way.
• The API backend of itBundled is it.serial, and concurrent compiles exhaust CI memory (bundler_compile.test.ts). On the test side, the compile count is the lever.

Notes

• Per-phase cost of one case, local debug ASAN build: Bun.build with compile 2.2 to 2.5 s, Bun.gc(true) 20 ms, running the executable 0.24 s. Inside the compile the bundle itself is 0.3 s. The rest is inject() in StandaloneModuleGraph.rs: the in-kernel copy_file of the executable is about 0.3 s, and reading the copy back into a Vec, the ASAN realloc that grows it, and the in-memory ELF rewrite (a 330 MB tail move) are about 1.4 s. bun build --compile: skip redundant on-disk copy and mmap the source executable #33621 (mmap the source executable, write the image once) removes most of that for every --compile test. It is open and needs a rebase.
• Reading an executable: readFileSync of the 800 MB output plus lastIndexOf is 1.7 s in a local debug build, the latin1 string conversion plus five String#lastIndexOf calls 25 s. Reading the .bun section through the ELF section headers takes a few ms.
• Local, main at 2c0284e, per test: ModulesLaidOutInLoadOrder 25.4 s, StartupModulesPrecedeLazyChunks 4.1 s, ChunkNamesAreHashed 4.0 s, the two SplitRequireLoadsChunkSynchronously cases 4.1 s and 4.8 s (whole-file read each), the other 14 cases 2.3 to 3.4 s. After: 2.4 to 3.4 s each.
• CI, this revision, build 106601, file run solo (the runner runs modified files first and alone): debian 13 x64-asan 34.9 s, debian 13 x64 18.5 s, darwin x64 19.3 s, darwin aarch64 9.4 s. The 16-case file in build 105983 solo: asan 43.3 s, debian x64 8.7 s, darwin x64 18.0 s, darwin aarch64 7.5 s. An earlier revision of this branch with 13 cases (two more folds) ran in 29.1 s on asan (build 106200). On the release lanes the numbers move with machine load more than with this change. This file is the third slowest bundler test file on the ASAN lane, behind bundler_compile.test.ts and bun-build-compile.test.ts.
• The import.meta (esm bytecode #26402) and external re-export (bundler: build the ESM bytecode module record from what the printer emits #37677) cases stay separate. An earlier revision merged them to save two compiles. Two regression pins with their own issue numbers are clearer apart.
• The folded layout case uses the five-module graph of ModulesLaidOutInLoadOrder. The startup-run check generalizes the old one: the internal-module bytecode (4 blobs, 79 KB in the debug build) and both string tables lie between the end of the startup modules' bytecode and module records and the first lazy module's bytecode, in that order. The old case skipped the builtin table and its fixture imported no builtin. The chunk-name check covers the four chunks of that graph. Chunk naming does not depend on --bytecode (the ./_N.js numbering compile: keep chunk-[hash] names inside executables #40498 reverted applied to every executable), and the no-bytecode splitting path is still compiled and run by RelativePathsAcrossChunks, SplitRequireLoadsChunkSynchronously-source and four dead-import configurations.
• MinChunkSizeKeepsEntryChunkImportable: with the old await import("./a") entry, the compiled and the uncompiled build both kept every chunk separate, so the assertions could not tell whether the compile_mode.is_executable() clause in pin_entry_chunk exists. With import().then() the uncompiled build folds shared into entry.js (a's chunk imports it from ./entry.js) and the compiled build keeps it in a chunk of its own. splitting/MinChunkSizeFoldsSharedIntoEntryWithoutCompile pins the uncompiled half on the same fixture, so a fixture edit that removes the fold fails loudly instead of hollowing the compiled case. helper does not fold into a's chunk in either shape because a.ts has exports (preserveEntrySignatures: "exports-only"). c.ts has none, so helper2 (shared by c and its import() target d) folds into c's chunk in both shapes, which covers the !is_dynamic_entry half of the clause. The old comment claimed the fold for helper. It now states what the fixture shows.
• Bytecode alignment: append_bytecode_aligned in StandaloneModuleGraph.rs places module bytecode, internal-module bytecode and the bytecode string table at 120 mod 128 so they are 128-byte aligned after the section's 8-byte length header at a page-aligned address. fix(compile): ensure bytecode alignment accounts for section header #26299 fixed a Windows crash from misaligned offsets. No test asserted the offsets. readModuleGraph now does for every caller. Module records and their string table are unaligned by design and are excluded.
• Rebased onto compile: load an executable's embedded ES module graph without per-import round trips #40643 and then compile: resolve module record names through the bytecode string table #40677, which added PreRegisteredClosure (two cases) and ModuleRecordNamesMatchBytecode at the top of the describe block. Each conflict was that insertion against the rewritten layout case below it. Resolved by keeping the new cases first, unchanged, then the layout case.
• compile: resolve module record names through the bytecode string table #40677 turned the module-info string table into slots of the bytecode string table, so the dead-import check that searched it for fs/promises checked nothing. The bytecode string table does contain fs/promises, but from the internal-module bytecode the tree-shaken import still pulls into the executable (six builtin blobs and a 20 KB table that the same fixture without the import does not have), not from a record. The matrix now reads each record's header and asserts that the chunk holding wrapped.js requests no module. Since bundler: with --splitting --target bun, require() of an ES module is a chunk boundary #40519 that chunk is wrapped.js alone.
• The SplitRequireLoadsChunkSynchronously cases (bundler: with --splitting --target bun, require() of an ES module is a chunk boundary #40519) keep their assertion (import.meta.require() of an embedded chunk) through the parser. The bytecode variant builds through the CLI, whose default chunk names are [name]-[hash].js, so that check accepts any embedded .js path and expectImportsResolve checks the path exists.
• Not done: test.concurrent. The API backend is it.serial in expectBundled.ts, and each compile holds about two copies of the executable in memory.
• itBundled cases do not run on Windows today: expectBundled checks that new Error().stack includes test/bundler/, Windows stacks use backslashes, and itBundled swallows the throw during its dry run (test/bundler: stop silently dropping every itBundled test on Windows #34552 and test/bundler: fail the file when itBundled registration throws anything but an auto-skip #38655 are open for this). Build 106200 shows Ran 0 tests across 1 file for this file on both Windows lanes.
• The Mach-O reader was checked against an arm64 output cross-compiled with --compile-executable-path (section 591 bytes, payload equal to the whole-file read). The PE reader was checked on a Windows x64 compile with the canary build (section 3584 bytes, payload equal, bytecode at 120, 632, 1912). An earlier revision fell back to reading the whole file when no reader matched. No supported target reaches that path (inject writes ELF, Mach-O or PE), so the fallback could only hide a reader regression as a slow test, and readModuleGraph now throws instead. bun-build-compile.test.ts has three inline ELF .bun section walkers that could import readBunSectionELF from the new module. Not changed here.
• With about 29 s on the ASAN lane the file is still above the 15 s fast_ms bound of test/parallel-allowlist.json. Its entry there (asan 4957 ms) predates most of these cases.

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Test-only change.

Debug/ASAN (expected pass):
$ bun bd test 'test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts'
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts
bun test v1.4.1 (65362b53b)

test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts:
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/splitting/PreRegisteredClosure [4826.53ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/splitting/PreRegisteredClosure+bytecode [6061.52ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/splitting/ModuleRecordNamesMatchBytecode [3046.53ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/splitting/ModuleGraphLayout [3861.10ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/splitting/RelativePathsAcrossChunks [4085.16ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/splitting/ImportMetaInSplitChunk [3317.76ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/splitting/ImportMetaInSplitChunk+minify [3572.05ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/DeadExternalImportInWrappedModule [3907.26ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/DeadExternalImportInWrappedModule+minify [3356.25ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/DeadExternalImportInWrappedModule+bytecode [3899.85ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/DeadExternalImportInWrappedModule+bytecode+minify [5319.02ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/DeadExternalImportInWrappedModule+splitting [3845.79ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/DeadExternalImportInWrappedModule+splitting+minify [4691.79ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/DeadExternalImportInWrappedModule+splitting+bytecode [3790.70ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/DeadExternalImportInWrappedModule+splitting+bytecode+minify [4514.14ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/splitting/ReExportExternalFromSplitChunk [3563.66ms]
(pass) bundler > compile with splitting > compile/splitting/ReExportExternalFromSplitChunk+minify [4486.09ms]
(pass) bundler > 
... (truncated)
Exit: 0

diff hotspot

test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts | 430 ++++++++++++++++---------
 test/bundler/standalone-graph.ts               | 226 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 495 insertions(+), 161 deletions(-)

gate history · 4 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 2

evidence per changed file

file                                            reads  edits  tests
test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts     19     20      0
test/bundler/standalone-graph.ts                    4      7      0

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Walkthrough

The compile-splitting tests now parse executable payloads and validate embedded module graphs, chunk imports, bytecode, startup boundaries, builtin data, string tables, dead imports, and shared-chunk wiring.

Changes

Compile-splitting validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Executable payload parsing test/bundler/standalone-graph.ts	Adds executable section readers and parses embedded modules, bytecode, startup counts, builtin bytecode, and string tables.
Module graph and layout assertions test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts	Validates module load order, entry identity, ordered regions, startup boundaries, metadata tables, builtin bytecode, and embedded import resolution.
Split import and re-export validation test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts	Checks relative paths, import.meta variants, external re-exports, and resolved split-chunk imports.
Dead imports and shared-chunk wiring test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts	Verifies dead fs/promises imports, synchronous require() targets, bytecode metadata, shared-chunk placement, helper chunking, and compiled versus uncompiled output.

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This test-only change improves compiled-module graph validation and reduces test overhead; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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[robobun]

Status: test-only change, rebased onto main three times (to absorb #40519, #40643 and #40677). Local debug ASAN build, warm cache: 84.3 s (main at 2c0284e, 19 cases) to 52.1 s (18 cases, 17 compiles); after the rebases the file has 21 cases and 20 compiles, all passing locally on a fresh build. CI (build 107103, before the #40677 rebase): this file passed on every lane, debian 13 x64-asan solo 42.6 s (43.3 s for 16 cases in build 105983). The one red job there was test/js/web/url/url.test.ts on darwin x64, which fails on main too and is reported to triage. c3d5c9c replaces the dead-import string-table check, made vacuous by #40677, with a module-record header check. Self-review done across five rounds.

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[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it merges several previously-independent compile test cases into shared executables and adds a hand-rolled ELF/module-graph parser that all the layout assertions now depend on, a human sanity-check on the coverage tradeoffs would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• readBunSectionELF header offsets and the readModuleGraph Offsets/CompiledModuleGraphFile layout against the described to_bytes format — field offsets, record stride, and the flag-gated trailing records line up with what the old inline parser read.
• The merged ModuleGraphLayout case still asserts everything the three deleted cases did (load order, startupCount, string-table placement between startup and lazy bytecode, hashed chunk names), and the no---bytecode splitting path that ChunkNamesAreHashed used to cover is still exercised by RelativePathsAcrossChunks and four dead-import configurations.
• The importedPaths regex and moduleContaining helper — over these controlled fixtures they can't over-match, and the non-ELF fallback path is the same whole-file read the old tests used.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR refactors test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts to reduce the number of --compile invocations from 17 to 13 and to replace ad-hoc readFileSync+lastIndexOf inspection of hundreds-of-MB debug executables with a structured readModuleGraph helper. On Linux it reads only the ELF .bun section via a small hand-written section-header walker; other platforms fall back to reading the whole file. Three layout-inspection test cases are folded into one ModuleGraphLayout build, the import.meta and external-re-export split-chunk cases are merged into one build per minify setting, and several existing run-only cases gain onAfterBundle graph-shape assertions (module count, entry key, hashed chunk names, import resolution, bytecode/module-record presence keyed on --bytecode, dead fs/promises absent from both source and the module-info string table). No production code is touched.

Security risks

None. The change is test-only: it reads a locally-produced compiled binary and asserts on its contents. There is no network I/O, no credential handling, and no user-facing surface. The ELF parser reads a file the test itself just wrote.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate. This is not a mechanical tweak — it is a ~470-line test refactor that (a) introduces a binary-format parser every layout assertion in the file now flows through, and (b) collapses independently-configured test cases into shared builds, which is exactly the kind of change where subtle coverage loss can slip by. I checked the ELF header field offsets (e_shoff at 0x28, e_shentsize/e_shnum/e_shstrndx at 0x3a/0x3c/0x3e, sh_name/sh_offset/sh_size at 0/0x18/0x20 for 64-bit LE) and they are correct; the fallback path is identical to the old behavior. The Offsets and CompiledModuleGraphFile decoding matches what the deleted StartupModulesPrecedeLazyChunks case was already doing inline, just factored out. The merged layout test still asserts every property the three deleted cases asserted, generalized to the five-module graph. The one deliberate configuration change — ChunkNamesAreHashed previously ran without --bytecode, now the hashed-name check only runs on a --bytecode build — is called out in the PR notes with the compensating no-bytecode splitting cases named, but that is a coverage judgment a maintainer should confirm.

Other factors

The bug-hunting pass ran to a dry streak with no findings and no ruled-out candidates. There are no CODEOWNERS on this file and no prior review activity on the PR. The change follows the file's existing conventions (the itBundled harness, serial compiles per the bundler_compile.test.ts precedent, latin1 reads for binary payloads) and REVIEW.md test guidance (assertions are strengthened, not weakened; the fd in readModuleGraph is closed in finally; no sleeps or ports). Given the size and the test-merging judgment calls, deferring for one human pass rather than auto-approving is the safer call.

[robobun]

On the one configuration change: the hashed chunk-name check now runs on a --bytecode build. Chunk names are decided by the linker's naming template before any bytecode is generated, and the numbered ./_N.js naming that #40498 reverted applied to every compiled executable, with or without --bytecode. So the property the check pins does not depend on that flag. The no-bytecode splitting path itself still compiles and runs in RelativePathsAcrossChunks and in the four dead-import configurations without --bytecode, and those now also check the embedded graph (module count, entry key, import specifiers resolve, no bytecode records).

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[robobun]

The description that review read was the one for the previous revision. The current body matches the diff: the three layout cases share one executable (19 compiles become 17), and ImportMetaInSplitChunk and ReExportExternalFromSplitChunk stay separate. The earlier revision had merged them; the Notes section records that change and the reason for undoing it.

[claude]

LGTM — test-only refactor, and the earlier description mismatch I flagged is now fixed.

What was reviewed since last push: verified the new Mach-O (mach_header_64/segment_command_64/section_64) and PE (DOS→COFF→section table) walkers against the actual struct layouts — field offsets are correct, and both fall through to the whole-file read on magic mismatch. The 120-mod-128 bytecode alignment check matches append_bytecode_aligned (page-aligned section + 8-byte length prefix). The PE reader uses SizeOfRawData (file-aligned, may include padding) rather than VirtualSize, but lastIndexOf(TRAILER) locates the payload end regardless, so that's harmless.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR refactors test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts by extracting inline binary parsing of the standalone-executable module graph into a new helper test/bundler/standalone-graph.ts. The helper reads only the .bun section of the compiled executable (via ELF/Mach-O/PE section-table walkers, falling back to reading the whole file), parses the trailer Offsets struct and module table, and asserts bytecode alignment. Three separate layout tests are collapsed into one shared compile, and existing itBundled cases gain structural assertions against the parsed graph. Both changed files are test-only; no production code is touched. Since my previous review, commit 46f4c68 added the Mach-O and PE readers (previously only ELF was parsed; other platforms fell back to whole-file reads) and the bytecode alignment assertion.

Security risks

None. This is test infrastructure that parses binaries produced by the test's own bun build --compile invocation — not untrusted input. No auth, crypto, network, or user-facing code paths are touched.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-moderate. Test-only change with no runtime impact. The binary-format parsing is the only non-trivial logic; I checked each field offset against the ELF64, Mach-O 64, and PE/COFF header layouts and they line up. The readFileSync(fd) fallback means a mis-parse degrades to the old (slow) behavior rather than breaking. The PR author notes itBundled cases don't currently run on Windows CI (backslash stack-trace bug), so the PE path is future-proofing, but its correctness still matters once that's fixed.

Other factors

My prior inline nit (PR description claimed a case merge that wasn't shipped) was addressed — the description now correctly says the import.meta and external re-export cases stay separate and reports 19→17 compiles. No CODEOWNERS entry covers test/bundler/. No other reviewer has posted CHANGES_REQUESTED. The bug hunter ran to dry_streak with no findings. CI build 106601 referenced in the description shows the file passing on debian x64/asan and both darwin lanes, and the timing reduction is consistent with reading a few KB of section data instead of an 800 MB debug binary.

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