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Remove dead code from the libuv stub headers, bun-error, bun_zlib_sys and misc crates - #39574

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Problem

  • src/jsc/bindings/libuv/ is only on the include path for non-Windows builds (scripts/build/flags.ts, "libuv stubs for unix"). uv/win.h (703 lines) and uv/tree.h (512 lines, included only by win.h) are never reached.
  • uv/sunos.h, uv/os390.h, uv/aix.h and uv/posix.h are selected by uv/unix.h only on Solaris, z/OS, AIX, IBM i, Cygwin, Haiku, QNX and Hurd. Bun builds for linux, macOS and FreeBSD.
  • packages/bun-error is embedded in the dev error page (src/runtime/server/dev-error-page.html). The page calls the function behind Symbol.for("Bun__renderFallbackError") and nothing else. renderRuntimeError, the abort state dismissError kept for it, and the two modules only it imported (sourcemap.ts, stack-trace-parser.ts) have no callers. serve: JSON payload for the development error page, restoring stack traces #37081 lists this path as a follow-up.
  • bun_zlib_sys::posix and bun_zlib_sys::win32 declare zlib functions that nothing calls. bun_zlib declares its own. The only use of the two modules was as re-exports of the types in shared.rs.
  • A set of pub items in other crates has no user in any crate. rustc cannot report them because pub items count as used.

Fix

  • Delete the six libuv headers. uv.h now includes uv/unix.h directly. uv/unix.h keeps the linux, darwin and BSD branches. uv-posix-polyfills.c drops the commented-out copies of the removed branches.
  • Delete renderRuntimeError, sourcemap.ts and stack-trace-parser.ts. dismissError keeps the part that removes the overlay. runtime-error.ts stays (it has a test).
  • Delete bun_zlib_sys/posix.rs and win32.rs. bun_zlib imports the types from bun_zlib_sys::shared, which is where the removed modules took them from.
  • Delete the unused Rust items listed below, plus the trait implementations and imports that only they needed.

Verification:

  • Every Rust item was found by making the unexported items crate-private and compiling the workspace. An item is deleted only if rustc reports it dead on x86_64 linux (dev, release, and with the bun_debug and bun_asan cfgs), aarch64 linux, x86_64 musl, x86_64 Windows and aarch64 macOS.
  • Each removed name was also searched in src/codegen/, the *.classes.ts files, src/js/ and the C++ bindings. Items that a codegen template can emit were kept.
  • bun run rust:check-all: 12 of 12 targets pass. cargo check --workspace --all-targets passes (benches and unit tests still compile). cargo check -p bun_shim_impl --features shim_standalone for the Windows target passes.
  • bun bd builds. The build recompiles uv-posix-stubs.c and uv-posix-polyfills.c against the trimmed uv.h, and rebuilds the bun-error bundle, which no longer exports renderRuntimeError.
  • New test in test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts: it takes the bun-error bundle out of a real 500 page, evaluates it outside a browser, and checks that the bundle registers the renderer and that dismissError is a no-op when nothing is rendered. This is the surface the packages/bun-error change touches.
  • bun bd test passes for test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts -t "dev error page" (including the new test), test/js/bun/runtime-error.test.ts, test/js/bun/util/{zstd,arraybuffersink,filesink}.test.ts, test/js/node/zlib/deflate-streaming.test.ts, test/js/web/encoding/text-{encoder,decoder}.test.*, test/js/workerd/html-rewriter.test.js, test/js/bun/css/nth-anplusb-ident.test.ts, test/js/web/fetch/blob.test.ts and test/internal/source-lints/dead-code-escapes.test.ts.
  • cargo fmt --check, clang-format on the touched C file and prettier on the touched TypeScript files pass.
Removed Rust items
  • bun_zlib_sys: modules posix and win32 (struct_gz_header_s, gz_header, gz_headerp, in_func, out_func, and the deflate*, inflate*, compress*, uncompress, adler32, crc32, zlibVersion declarations), shared::voidpf.
  • bun_zlib: declarations compress, compressBound, uncompress, and the internal module that selected between the two removed modules.
  • bun_zstd: decompress (every caller uses decompress_append).
  • bun_libdeflate_sys: libdeflate_deflate_decompress (the _ex variant is the one in use).
  • bun_mimalloc_sys: mi_strdup, mi_heap_collect, mi_thread_set_in_threadpool.
  • bun_cares_sys: ares_strerror.
  • bun_windows_sys: SetHandleInformation, closesocket.
  • bun_alloc: default_alloc::calloc.
  • bun_core: GenericIndexInt::from_usize and its macro-generated implementations.
  • bun_css: the four deprecated to_css methods on GenericSelectorList, GenericSelector, GenericComponent and Combinator. Their bodies were unreachable!(); the serializer functions replaced them.
  • bun_runtime: JsSinkType::done and its six overrides, FileCloser::update and its implementations, ReadableStream::to_js, node_fs::Null::to_js.
Overlap with open pull requests

The deletions here were checked against the open dead-code pull requests (#35437, #35775, #35880, #36115, #36237, #37012, #37149, #37181, #37208, #37301, #37454, #37659, #37788, #38005, #38900, #39319, #39561) and against #38958 and #35075. Nothing deleted here is deleted by any of them. Candidates they already cover were left out: src/jsc/bindgen.rs (#37149), the dead pub use re-exports (#39319), the simdutf big-endian and UTF-32 wrappers (#38958), and the items named in the skip lists of the others. Some files here (bun_alloc/lib.rs, bun_core/util.rs, libdeflate.rs, mimalloc.rs, node_fs.rs, Blob.rs, FileSink.rs, ReadableStream.rs, streams.rs, windows_sys/externs.rs) are also touched by open pull requests in different hunks. #36437 edits packages/bun-error from a base that predates #37081; it changes one import line in stack-trace-parser.ts and keeps renderRuntimeError, so it does not overlap with this deletion but will need a rebase.

Found but not deleted (judgment calls for a maintainer)
  • packages/bun-inspector-protocol/src/protocol/v8/ (about 32,600 lines): not exported by the package index since 2023 and regenerated only with the opt-in --v8 flag of scripts/generate-protocol.ts. bun-inspector-protocol: regenerate the JSC protocol snapshot from the pinned WebKit #39110 kept the flag, so this needs a decision.
  • packages/h3blast (1,468 lines) and packages/bun-build-mdx-rs (558 lines): nothing in the repository references them. They may be kept on purpose as a load generator and a proof of concept.
  • packages/bun-error/runtime-error.ts is unused by the page but covered by test/js/bun/runtime-error.test.ts. The four images in packages/bun-error/img/ are referenced only by the source glob in scripts/glob-sources.ts.
  • HotReloadTaskView in src/jsc/hot_reloader.rs: both reload implementations ignore the task, and VirtualMachine::reload ignores its Option<HotReloadTask> argument. Removing the plumbing is a small refactor rather than a deletion.
  • react_compiler/compile_result.rs has constructors and fields with no users, but the file says the types are waiting to be wired up.
  • The streams-era private globals in BunBuiltinNames.h (makeGetterTypeError, makeDOMException, addAbortAlgorithmToSignal, removeAbortAlgorithmFromSignal, isAbortSignal, createUninitializedArrayBuffer, about 100 lines of ZigGlobalObject.cpp) have no JS callers. Both files are being edited by several open dead-code pull requests, so they were left for a later run.

Background

  • rustc's dead_code lint treats every pub item in a library crate as used, because another crate could import it. In this workspace every crate is an implementation detail of one binary, so a pub item with no importer in any crate is dead in the same sense as a private one. Making such items crate-private for one compile lets rustc report the ones with no users at all. The visibility changes themselves are not part of this pull request.
  • On POSIX, bun does not link libuv. Node-API addons that reference libuv symbols get uv-posix-stubs.c and uv-posix-polyfills*.c, which are compiled against the copied headers in src/jsc/bindings/libuv/. On Windows the real libuv is linked and that directory is not used.
  • JsSinkType is the Rust trait behind the native sink classes (FileSink, ArrayBufferSink, the HTTP response sinks). Its methods are called from the shared sink glue in Sink.rs; done was declared there but the glue never called it.

no test proof · iteration 1 · Platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine. Deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts

… and misc crates

libuv stubs (src/jsc/bindings/libuv): this directory is only on the
include path for non-Windows builds, and bun builds for linux, macOS and
FreeBSD. uv/win.h (and uv/tree.h, which only win.h included) is never
reached, and uv/sunos.h, os390.h, aix.h and posix.h are only selected on
platforms bun does not build for. Delete them and the include branches
that selected them.

packages/bun-error: the dev error page only calls the function behind
Symbol.for("Bun__renderFallbackError"). renderRuntimeError, the state
dismissError kept for it, and the two modules only it used (sourcemap.ts
and stack-trace-parser.ts) have no callers. This is the follow-up named
in #37081.

bun_zlib_sys: every declaration in posix.rs and win32.rs was unused. The
only consumer, bun_zlib, used the two modules as re-exports of the types
in shared.rs, so it now imports from shared directly and the per-platform
modules are gone.

The remaining changes delete items that rustc reports as dead once they
are no longer exported: unused extern declarations in bun_zlib,
bun_libdeflate_sys, bun_mimalloc_sys, bun_cares_sys and bun_windows_sys,
the deprecated to_css tombstones on the selector types, zstd::decompress,
default_alloc::calloc, GenericIndexInt::from_usize, JsSinkType::done and
FileCloser::update with their implementations, ReadableStream::to_js and
node_fs::Null::to_js.
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Updated 1:40 PM PT - Aug 18th, 2026

@robobun, your commit 2bfa741629082ac6136e905cc1d7d767f15638dc passed in Build #100691! 🎉


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 39574

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-39574 executable, so you can run:

bun-39574 --bun

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The PR removes runtime error remapping, stack parsing, unused sink and helper methods, obsolete FFI declarations, unsupported libuv platform headers, platform-specific zlib modules, and direct-buffer zstd decompression.

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Runtime error pipeline

Layer / File(s) Summary
Remove runtime error rendering pipeline
packages/bun-error/index.tsx, packages/bun-error/schema.ts, packages/bun-error/sourcemap.ts, packages/bun-error/stack-trace-parser.ts
Runtime error rendering, stack parsing, source-map remapping, cancellation, and related implementations were removed. dismissError now only clears the overlay root.

Runtime sink interfaces

Layer / File(s) Summary
Remove sink and file closer methods
src/runtime/api/html_rewriter.rs, src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs, src/runtime/webcore/{ArrayBufferSink.rs,Blob.rs,FileSink.rs,ReadableStream.rs,Sink.rs}, src/runtime/webcore/fetch/FetchRequestBodySink.rs, src/runtime/webcore/streams.rs
The done, update, ReadableStream::to_js, and Null::to_js methods were removed from the affected traits and implementations.

Libuv platform bindings

Layer / File(s) Summary
Narrow libuv platform header selection
src/jsc/bindings/libuv/uv.h, src/jsc/bindings/libuv/uv/unix.h, src/bun_core/Global.rs, src/jsc/bindings/libuv/uv/{aix.h,os390.h,posix.h,sunos.h,tree.h,win.h}
The bindings now select Unix platform headers for supported platforms. Obsolete platform headers and the bundled tree header were deleted. The Windows signal comment references the relocated header.

FFI and compression bindings

Layer / File(s) Summary
Remove unused FFI and compression APIs
src/bun_alloc/lib.rs, src/cares_sys/c_ares.rs, src/libdeflate_sys/libdeflate.rs, src/mimalloc_sys/mimalloc.rs, src/windows_sys/externs.rs, src/zlib/lib.rs, src/zlib_sys/*, src/zstd/lib.rs
Unused allocator, C-ABI, Windows, zlib, and zstd declarations were removed. zlib now uses shared bindings, and the direct-buffer zstd decompression API was removed.

Rust and CSS helper APIs

Layer / File(s) Summary
Remove deprecated helper methods
src/bun_core/util.rs, src/css/selectors/parser.rs
GenericIndexInt no longer requires from_usize. Deprecated selector to_css methods were removed.
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it spans 37 files across a dozen crates plus vendored libuv stub headers and the bundled bun-error package, a human look would still be worthwhile — particularly to confirm dropping the renderRuntimeError export from bun-error is desired.

What was reviewed:

  • Confirmed src/jsc/bindings/libuv/ is only on the include path for non-Windows (scripts/build/flags.ts:1568), so uv/win.h/tree.h and the AIX/Solaris/z/OS/posix headers are unreachable.
  • Grepped for every removed Rust item (mi_thread_set_in_threadpool, SetHandleInformation, ares_strerror, from_usize, libdeflate_deflate_decompress, etc.) — remaining hits are local extern re-declarations, C++ callers, or comments; none reach the deleted declarations.
  • Verified FileCloser::update and JsSinkType::done are not invoked by any trait default body or the Sink.rs glue; read_file.rs:805 calls the inherent ReadFile::update, not the trait method.
  • Confirmed bun_zlib_sys::{posix,win32} re-exported shared.rs types verbatim, so bun_zlib's new direct use bun_zlib_sys::shared::... resolves to the same definitions.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR is a pure dead-code deletion across four areas: (1) six libuv stub headers for platforms Bun does not build (Windows-via-stubs, AIX, Solaris, z/OS, and the generic posix.h fallback), plus the matching commented-out branches in uv-posix-polyfills.c; (2) the renderRuntimeError path in packages/bun-error and the two modules only it imported; (3) the bun_zlib_sys::{posix,win32} extern modules, replaced by direct imports from shared.rs; and (4) about twenty unused pub items scattered across bun_alloc, bun_core, bun_cares_sys, bun_mimalloc_sys, bun_libdeflate_sys, bun_windows_sys, bun_css, bun_zstd, and bun_runtime (trait methods JsSinkType::done and FileCloser::update with their overrides, ReadableStream::to_js, Null::to_js, and assorted extern declarations).

Security risks

None. Every hunk removes code; nothing is added except a one-line comment in uv.h and updated comments in shared.rs/schema.ts/Blob.rs. No behavioral guards, validation, or error paths are weakened.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high, driven by breadth rather than depth. Each individual deletion is trivial to verify, and the PR description documents a rigorous methodology (make items crate-private → let rustc's dead_code lint find them across five targets and three cfgs → grep codegen/*.classes.ts/src/js/C++ bindings). I spot-checked the claims most likely to be wrong: the libuv include-path gating (scripts/build/flags.ts:1568 confirms non-Windows only), mi_thread_set_in_threadpool (ThreadPool.rs declares its own local extern at line 1155), FileCloser::update (no caller in the trait's default bodies; the this.update() at read_file.rs:805 is on ReadFile, calling an inherent method), Null::to_js (Null implements FsReturn::fs_to_js at node_fs.rs:1133, which is what codegen uses), and renderRuntimeError/sourcemap.ts/stack-trace-parser.ts (no remaining references anywhere in the repo). The bun_zlib_sys collapse is type-preserving: the removed platform modules pub used everything from shared.rs, and bun_zlib now imports from shared directly.

Other factors

The PR touches sink infrastructure, blob file-close plumbing, and vendored headers — all areas where a stale pointer to a removed item would only surface at link time or on a specific platform. The author reports bun run rust:check-all (12/12), cargo check --workspace --all-targets, the Windows shim crate check, a full bun bd, and a targeted test matrix all pass. The PR also explicitly parks larger judgment calls (v8 protocol, h3blast, streams-era private globals) for a maintainer rather than deleting them, and cross-references 19 open dead-code PRs to avoid overlap. Given the 37-file surface area and the export-shape change to the bundled bun-error package, a maintainer sign-off is appropriate even though I found nothing wrong.

…e_closer docs accurate

The test extracts the bundle the 500 page inlines, evaluates it outside a
browser, and checks that it registers the renderer and that dismissError
is a no-op when nothing is rendered.

impl_file_closer! still calls the inherent update() from its close
trampoline, so the requirement stays in its documentation.
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Status after the bot reviews:

  • The impl_file_closer! doc finding was correct. The macro still calls the inherent update() from its close trampoline, so 2bfa741 restores that line of the doc. Only the FileCloser::update trait method and the forwarding impl are removed; no implementation of the trait called it.
  • On the renderRuntimeError export: the bun-error bundle is consumed in one place, inlined into src/runtime/server/dev-error-page.html, which calls the function registered under Symbol.for("Bun__renderFallbackError"). The bundle's named exports are not reachable from that script tag, and nothing in the repository imports the package. serve: JSON payload for the development error page, restoring stack traces #37081 named this path as the follow-up to delete.
  • 2bfa741 also adds a test to test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts. It takes the bundle out of a real 500 page, evaluates it outside a browser, and checks that it registers the renderer and that dismissError is a no-op with nothing rendered.

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it removes code across ~10 subsystems (bun-error UI, libuv stub headers, sink/FileCloser traits, zlib_sys, and assorted FFI crates) and the description itself flags several adjacent judgment calls for a maintainer, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • Confirmed src/jsc/bindings/libuv is unix-only in scripts/build/flags.ts, so win.h/tree.h and the AIX/SunOS/z-OS/posix headers were unreachable.
  • Checked impl_file_closer! still calls the inherent $T::update and its doc was updated (CodeRabbit thread resolved); generate-jssink.ts never references done.
  • Grepped for remaining callers of renderRuntimeError, bun_zlib_sys::{posix,win32}, and each removed FFI symbol — mi_thread_set_in_threadpool in ThreadPool.rs has its own local extern, and mi_heap_collect hits are comments.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR deletes dead code across 38 files: six unreachable libuv stub headers (win.h, tree.h, aix.h, sunos.h, os390.h, posix.h), the renderRuntimeError path and its two supporting modules from packages/bun-error, the bun_zlib_sys::{posix,win32} modules, and a set of unused pub items across bun_alloc, bun_core, bun_css, bun_runtime (sink and FileCloser trait methods), and several *_sys crates. It also rewires bun_zlib to import types directly from bun_zlib_sys::shared and adds a test that the dev-error-page bundle still evaluates and registers Bun__renderFallbackError.

Security risks

None. The changes are purely subtractive (deleting unreferenced declarations, headers, and functions) plus one import-path rewiring that resolves to the same types. No new input parsing, no auth/crypto, no privilege changes.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate-to-high, driven by breadth rather than depth. Each individual deletion is mechanical and the verification methodology is unusually thorough (rustc dead-code check across 12 targets + cfg combinations, codegen/*.classes.ts/src/js/C++ greps, cross-checked against 19 open PRs). But the change spans the dev-error-page UI, the sink/FileCloser trait surface used by every native sink, libuv N-API stub headers, and several FFI crates — enough distinct subsystems that a maintainer should confirm the direction, especially the renderRuntimeError removal (noted as a #37081 follow-up) and the trait-method deletions.

Other factors

  • The bug-hunting system found nothing. My spot-checks confirmed the key claims: the libuv stub include path is unix-only in scripts/build/flags.ts:1568; generate-jssink.ts never references done; impl_file_closer! calls the inherent $T::update (not the removed trait forwarder), and the macro doc was updated per the resolved CodeRabbit thread; ThreadPool.rs declares its own mi_thread_set_in_threadpool extern so removing the mimalloc_sys copy is fine; renderRuntimeError and bun_zlib_sys::{posix,win32} have no remaining references.
  • The new serve.test.ts case parses the exact line structure of the inlined <script type="module"> in dev-error-page.html, which is a bit tightly coupled to that template — worth a quick look.
  • The PR description explicitly lists "judgment calls for a maintainer" on adjacent candidates (v8 inspector protocol, h3blast, runtime-error.ts, streams-era private globals), reinforcing that a human should sign off on where the line was drawn.

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On the second review's remark about the new test: the coupling to the script layout of dev-error-page.html is deliberate. The template has three fixed lines around the bundle (two that move the JSON payload out of the document, and the call into the registered renderer). The test asserts those three lines verbatim and treats everything between them as the bundle. If the template changes, the test fails on the first assertion with the new lines in the diff, instead of evaluating the wrong slice of the page. No code change from this review; the PR is unchanged at 2bfa741.

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are you sure the bun-error code is dead? i thought we use that when there's a runtime error when development: true is set?

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Yes, that page is still used, and this PR keeps it. The package has two entry points, and only one of them has a caller.

The development: true path is the one that stays. When a handler throws, RequestContext.rs:1086 and :2934 build a DevErrorPage. DevErrorPage.rs serializes the exception (frames and source lines) into the JSON block of dev-error-page.html, and the page calls Bun__renderFallbackError, which is renderFallbackError in index.tsx. That function, the components it renders, and markdown.ts are untouched. The existing serve.test.ts case "dev error page embeds the thrown error, its stack, and build/resolve errors as JSON" exercises this path and still passes, and the new case in this PR checks that the bundle the page embeds still registers the renderer.

renderRuntimeError is the other entry point. It took an Error object thrown inside the browser page, parsed error.stack on the client (stack-trace-parser.ts), and fetched source maps to remap the frames (sourcemap.ts). Its only caller was the old bun dev HMR client in src/runtime/hmr.ts (added in efb4baa, 2022). That file was deleted in 514d37b (#14025, September 2024). On main there is no reference to renderRuntimeError, stack-trace-parser or bun-error/sourcemap outside the package itself (git grep over the whole tree). The current dev server has its own overlay in src/runtime/bake/client/overlay.ts and does not reference the package. #37081 also listed this path as a follow-up to remove.

So the removal is about 680 of the package's roughly 2850 lines: that one function, the two modules only it imported, and the abort bookkeeping in dismissError that only it set up. grep confirms nothing left in index.tsx or markdown.ts refers to the removed identifiers, and tsc on the package reports the same single pre-existing error as on main.

If you would rather keep a client-side entry point around for a future use, I can drop the packages/bun-error part of this PR. The rest of the PR does not depend on it.

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Jarred-Sumner merged commit 6948a12 into main Aug 18, 2026
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Jarred-Sumner deleted the farm/3cf46304/dead-code-libuv-stubs-bun-error-zlib-sys branch August 18, 2026 21:47
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