Calls into Node now run on one dedicated 64 MB stack with a guard page,
reached by a context switch, and the bridge sets V8's stack limit on it
(bridge ABI 2). Before, a call from an async fiber (512 KB stacks without a
guard page) failed to bootstrap Node, which the dev-mode LLVM differential
showed. The runtime's stack guard follows the switch, and the switch
carries ASan's fiber annotations.
The Node island tests load Node from a libnode pack. Until the NI-13 packs
are published, .github/actions/libnode-dev-pack assembles one for the
Linux x64 test lanes (plain and sanitized): a pinned, checksum-verified
prebuilt libnode of the repository's Node release (24.22.0) and Node's
official headers (packages/libnode-common/dev-pack.json), with the bridge
built against them by build-pack.mjs. The pack is cached by its inputs and
the bridge source, so only a cache miss downloads and builds; the normal
build path never does.
tests/harness/libnode.ts makes a missing pack a failure in those lanes:
island tests skip only off Linux x64 CI without a configured pack. The
bridge smoke test (packages/libnode-common/test/bridge-smoke.c) loads the
pack the way scr_node_island.c does and makes synchronous, throwing and
asynchronous calls through the bridge with the runtime's bootstrap.
IR, LLVM and object outputs of programs that call into Node no longer need
a pack at build time; only executables record one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>