Preflight admits a createRequire loader's require.resolve call with a
computed request inside a try block, but lowering refused the call, so
in JavaScript source the whole statement became a runtime fence. The
fence threw before the request expression ran, and before anything else
in the statement: `try { where = load.resolve(candidate(name)); }`
skipped candidate()'s side effects, so the catch clause saw a different
state than in Node.
Such calls (a computed request, another argument shape, or
runtime-computed options, on require.resolve and require.resolve.paths)
now evaluate their arguments in order and then throw the fence, as a
computed require call does. The addon-probe fixture checks that a
computed candidate path runs before each failed lookup.
A pipeline whose first stage is a checked-dynamic value now checks it at
run time, as Node's stage ladder does: a stream is piped as before, and a
string or a value with a Symbol.asyncIterator or Symbol.iterator method is
pumped into the next stage through an async generator over its iterator.
A typed Set, Map, generator or async generator object as the first stage
takes the same path. This covers the callback and stream/promises forms,
with or without function stages and pipeline options.
A write whose callback fails synchronously no longer sets needDrain, so no
'drain' follows the error and a pumped source stops at the failed write,
as in Node.
RUNTIME_ABI_VERSION goes from 37 to 42 for scr_stream_dyn_iterable_source.
tls.connect, https.request and http2.connect verified the server against
the default CAs when ca was an empty Buffer, because the runtime read a
zero-length ca as none. The compiled calls now pass a null ca for none
(an omitted ca, or an empty string, which Node reads as no ca) and a
non-null one for any Buffer, and runtime option records read ca the same
way, so an empty Buffer or array trusts no certificate, as in Node. The
connection pool keys tell an empty ca from none. An empty array, which
threw, is an empty trust store too. A runtime-valued empty string ca in
http2.connect is refused instead of being read as an empty store.
In JavaScript dependencies, a createRequire require call with a computed
specifier, and require.resolve called with a computed request or read as
a value, now compile. The new runtime unit scr_require.c resolves the
specifier with Node 24's CommonJS algorithm (builtins, relative and
absolute paths with Node's extension search, package "main", "exports"
and self-reference, node_modules and NODE_PATH lookup) when the call runs:
- require.resolve returns the id or real path Node returns, and throws
Node's MODULE_NOT_FOUND error when nothing resolves.
- require throws the same MODULE_NOT_FOUND error when nothing resolves,
so packages that probe for optional addons, such as pi-tui, take their
absent branch as in Node. When the specifier resolves to a native addon,
a builtin or another file, Node would load that module: the program
prints an SC2020 error naming it and exits with status 1, without
running the catch clause around the call.
Coverage lists these calls as deferred to runtime. TypeScript sources keep
the compile-time refusal.
Refs #1777.
The checker resolves an overloaded call whose argument is `any` to the
first overload that argument satisfies, but in JavaScript the value can
select another one: generateKeyPairSync("ec", options) returns KeyObjects
or PEM strings by the options, and digest(encoding) returns a Buffer when
the encoding is undefined. The result was converted to the first
overload's return type, so such calls threw a TypeError where Node
returns the other overload's value.
When a checked-dynamic argument could take another overload whose return
type differs (trailing untyped or undefined arguments may also be
absent), the call's result in a JavaScript source is checked-dynamic. So
are the unannotated bindings it initializes, destructured or not, and
the unannotated functions that return it. fs.globSync keeps choosing its
result form from the resolved overload, since the runtime checks that
withFileTypes agrees with it.
Chris Tate