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SentinelNode, in next/dist/server/lib/lru-cache.js, constructed twice in LRUCache's constructor (this.head = new SentinelNode(); this.tail = new SentinelNode();). Found by instrumenting the five nameless throw sites and running the cheap front-end repro (perry compile --print-hir --no-auto-optimize --march generic handlers/main.ts on Coop's staged next-bench deployment, 117 natively compiled modules). The instrumented 77b994f6b emitted three unresolved-new throws: SentinelNode ×2 and a typeof IntersectionObserver === "function" ? new IntersectionObserver(...) : ... site in app-page.runtime.prod.js (browser API, dead on a server, so not the crash). None of the four default-parameter TDZ sites in lower_decl/helpers.rs fired. SentinelNode is not in the compile's "unknown identifier — assuming global" list because the new path never printed one — which is also why #8882 could not be attributed from the log.

The regressing commit and why it broke

905017b1c (#8643, "class semantics tail") — it introduced the unresolved-new guard in lower_new (there is no js_throw_reference_error_unresolved_get in expr_new.rs at 3885ba491; #8688 and #8739 only widened its exemption list). The guard decides at lowering time whether new X() can bind at all, and lowers a miss to an unconditional, nameless ReferenceError. Before it, an unresolved name fell through to the by-name Expr::New { class_name }, which codegen binds through the module class table when the new executes — which is why 0.5.1516 loaded.

Why the lowering-time lookups miss SentinelNode: the driver's CJS wrap (cjs_wrap/hoist_classes.rs) hoists top-level classes out of the module IIFE textually, anchored on class at column 0. SWC's emit for Next's TypeScript closes the doc comment on the class line — */ class SentinelNode { — so SentinelNode is never a hoist candidate and stays inside the __perry_cjs_factory closure, while LRUCache (column-0 class) is hoisted to module scope. Module-level classes are lowered before the init statement that holds the factory closure, so when LRUCache's constructor is lowered, lookup_class/forward_class_names/… have not seen SentinelNode yet. Deleting just that comment from the file makes the class order LRUNode, SentinelNode, LRUCache and the throw disappears — that is the whole difference. The shape is routine (6 such classes under next/dist/server alone) and the hoister's keep/hoist fixpoint cannot help because it only reasons about classes it recognised. #8753 (top suspect in the issue) is not involved.

The fix (perry-hir only)

Verification actually run

  • Fixture front-end repro (--print-hir, 117 modules): 0.5.1516 → 0 js_throw_reference_error_unresolved_get; instrumented 77b994f6b → the three emissions above (1 survives into the printed HIR; class bodies are printed as summaries); this branch → 0, SentinelNode stays New { class_name: "SentinelNode" }, and exactly one runtime-lookup construct exists in the whole fixture: IntersectionObserver (total js_global_get_or_throw_unresolved sites 129 → 130). The unknown-identifier warning multiset is unchanged apart from that site.
  • Minimal repro: the verbatim lru-cache.js imported from a main.ts reproduces the emission; the comment-stripped copy does not.
  • cargo test -p perry-hir: all green (350 lib tests + every integration file), including the two new unit tests in lower/tests.rs and the updated fix(async): linearize await inside an async-generator finally; fix aliased native-class new #8739 positive control (now expects the named form). Liveness: hoisted_class_constructs_sibling_declared_inside_a_later_closure fails with the new guard clause removed and passes with it restored.
  • cargo fmt --all --check, cargo clippy -p perry-hir (exit 0, no warnings on changed lines), scripts/check_file_size.sh, scripts/addr_class_inventory.py: pass.
  • No version bump (per the task).

Not covered

  • No end-to-end run of the compiled fixture: a full compile is 90+ minutes and the worktree has no runtime archive; the HIR-level evidence above is what this PR stands on. Coop should re-run its resource_benchmark on the next pin.
  • The hoister miss ( */ class X {) is left as is — with late binding it is harmless again, as it was before merge: land #8630 (class semantics tail) with six audit fixes #8643; hoisting those classes too would be a separate cjs_wrap change with its own blast radius.
  • By-name late binding resolves a same-named class declared in an unrelated function scope by name (pre-merge: land #8630 (class semantics tail) with six audit fixes #8643 behaviour, unchanged).
  • The default-parameter TDZ sites still use the nameless helper; that is a different error class (Cannot access x before initialization) and neither issue hit it.

Fixes #8882. Refs #8730.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZJbhb2FTuakurTHPAKQgd

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed unresolved new Constructor() calls so runtime-created global constructors can be used correctly.
    • Missing constructors now throw a standard, name-specific ReferenceError.
    • Improved support for classes declared inside nested scopes and closures.
    • Corrected unresolved identifier errors to include the missing name.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for late-bound constructors and named runtime errors.

…erenceError

Coop's Next.js App Route fixture died at module init on 0.5.1519 with
the nameless `ReferenceError: identifier is not defined`. The identifier
is `SentinelNode` in next/dist/server/lib/lru-cache.js: the CJS wrap
hoists `LRUCache` out of the module IIFE but never sees `SentinelNode`
(its doc comment closes on the `class` line, and the textual hoister
anchors on `class ` at column 0), so the hoisted constructor's
`new SentinelNode()` is lowered before the `__perry_cjs_factory` body
registers the class. The unresolved-`new` guard from #8643 (905017b,
inside the 1516..1519 window) turned that lowering-time miss into an
unconditional nameless throw; before it, the by-name `Expr::New` bound
at codegen through the module class table, which is why 0.5.1516 loaded.

- `pre_scan_class_decl_names` records every class DECLARATION name in
  the module at any depth; the guard keeps the late-bound by-name
  construction for those.
- Any other unresolved constructor is read off `globalThis` when the
  `new` executes (`js_global_get_or_throw_unresolved`, shared with the
  bare-identifier arm via `unresolved_global_get_expr`), so a
  runtime-created global constructs and a true miss throws
  `ReferenceError: <name> is not defined` -- with the identifier, as
  #8730 and #8882 asked. The compile log names it too, with the same
  "unknown identifier" warning the bare-identifier arm prints.

Regression tests: a hoisted class constructing a sibling declared inside
a later closure keeps `New { class_name }` (fails without the new guard
clause, verified); a `typeof`-guarded `new IntersectionObserver()`
lowers to the named runtime lookup; the #8739 positive control now
expects the named form.

Fixes #8882. Refs #8730.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZJbhb2FTuakurTHPAKQgd
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Class declaration pre-scan
crates/perry-hir/src/lower/pre_scan/..., crates/perry-hir/src/lower/lowering_context.rs, crates/perry-hir/src/lower/context.rs, crates/perry-hir/src/lower/lower_module_fn.rs, crates/perry-hir/Cargo.toml
The module lowering pipeline records class declaration names at every nesting depth.
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crates/perry-hir/src/lower/expr_new.rs, crates/perry-hir/src/lower/lower_expr/..., crates/perry-hir/src/lower/lower_expr.rs, crates/perry-hir/src/lower/mod.rs
Declared class names retain late-bound construction. Other unresolved names use named runtime globalThis lookup through js_global_get_or_throw_unresolved.
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crates/perry-hir/src/lower/tests.rs, crates/perry-hir/tests/aliased_native_new_resolution.rs, changelog.d/8882-late-bound-class-new.md
Tests cover nested class construction and missing constructor lookup with identifier-specific errors. The changelog documents the fix.

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The PR can cause new X() to instantiate a class declared in an unrelated function instead of resolving the intended global or throwing a named ReferenceError. Merge should wait for scope-aware binding or explicit owner acceptance of this correctness risk.

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  participant ModuleLowering
  participant ClassNamePreScan
  participant lower_new
  participant RuntimeGlobalLookup
  ModuleLowering->>ClassNamePreScan: collect class declaration names
  ClassNamePreScan-->>ModuleLowering: populate LoweringContext
  ModuleLowering->>lower_new: lower unresolved new expression
  alt class name exists in module
    lower_new-->>ModuleLowering: emit late-bound Expr::New
  else class name is absent
    lower_new->>RuntimeGlobalLookup: resolve constructor by name at runtime
    RuntimeGlobalLookup-->>lower_new: constructor or named ReferenceError
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In `@crates/perry-hir/src/lower/expr_new.rs`:
- Around line 1613-1614: Update the class-name exemption in lower_new to
preserve lexical scope: use the visible class-binding lookup rather than the
scope-insensitive class_decl_names_any_depth membership check. Keep the
Expr::New path only when the class name is actually visible in the current
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve lexical scope when exempting class names.

class_decl_names_any_depth records nested class names without their binding scope. As a result, new X() in one function can emit Expr::New merely because another function declares class X; codegen may then select that unrelated class instead of resolving globalThis.X or throwing ReferenceError when the global is absent.

Restrict the late-binding exemption to class declarations visible at the constructor site, and add a regression covering unrelated functions that use and declare the same class name.

📍 Affects 2 files
  • crates/perry-hir/src/lower/expr_new.rs#L1613-L1614 (this comment)
  • crates/perry-hir/src/lower/lowering_context.rs#L819-L827
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In `@crates/perry-hir/src/lower/expr_new.rs` around lines 1613 - 1614, Update the
class-name exemption in lower_new to preserve lexical scope: use the visible
class-binding lookup rather than the scope-insensitive
class_decl_names_any_depth membership check. Keep the Expr::New path only when
the class name is actually visible in the current context, while preserving the
reified global builtin constructor exemption.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/perry-hir/src/lower/lowering_context.rs` around
lines 819 - 827: Covers the same module-wide class-name collection and missing
binding ownership.

proggeramlug added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 27, 2026
* fix(hir): late-bind `new X()` to a class declared later; name the ReferenceError

Coop's Next.js App Route fixture died at module init on 0.5.1519 with
the nameless `ReferenceError: identifier is not defined`. The identifier
is `SentinelNode` in next/dist/server/lib/lru-cache.js: the CJS wrap
hoists `LRUCache` out of the module IIFE but never sees `SentinelNode`
(its doc comment closes on the `class` line, and the textual hoister
anchors on `class ` at column 0), so the hoisted constructor's
`new SentinelNode()` is lowered before the `__perry_cjs_factory` body
registers the class. The unresolved-`new` guard from #8643 (905017b,
inside the 1516..1519 window) turned that lowering-time miss into an
unconditional nameless throw; before it, the by-name `Expr::New` bound
at codegen through the module class table, which is why 0.5.1516 loaded.

- `pre_scan_class_decl_names` records every class DECLARATION name in
  the module at any depth; the guard keeps the late-bound by-name
  construction for those.
- Any other unresolved constructor is read off `globalThis` when the
  `new` executes (`js_global_get_or_throw_unresolved`, shared with the
  bare-identifier arm via `unresolved_global_get_expr`), so a
  runtime-created global constructs and a true miss throws
  `ReferenceError: <name> is not defined` -- with the identifier, as
  #8730 and #8882 asked. The compile log names it too, with the same
  "unknown identifier" warning the bare-identifier arm prints.

Regression tests: a hoisted class constructing a sibling declared inside
a later closure keeps `New { class_name }` (fails without the new guard
clause, verified); a `typeof`-guarded `new IntersectionObserver()`
lowers to the named runtime lookup; the #8739 positive control now
expects the named form.

Fixes #8882. Refs #8730.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZJbhb2FTuakurTHPAKQgd

* fix(runtime): make the class registries per image so one process can host several apps

Every class-id-keyed table module init writes — vtables, static methods and
accessors, constructors and flags, the parent map and its dense mirror, names,
lengths, registered ids, bind lengths, the extends-Error / DataView /
typed-array marks, the hasInstance / toStringTag hooks, generic-origin and
fetch-parent maps, anon-shape ids — was a process-global static keyed by a
compile-time class id. Class ids come from a small sequential counter in
codegen, so N dlopen'd copies of one application register the SAME ids with
DIFFERENT func_ptrs (each image's own code addresses) into one HashMap, and
insert is last-writer-wins: after the last image's init every class of every
earlier image dispatched into the last image's code, and only the
last-initialised application worked (#8546). No write order over a shared
table works, so the 21 tables move into one ClassImageTables per image.

A thread resolves its image through a perry_thread_local! handle, falling back
to the process-wide primary image. js_gc_init — codegen's first runtime call in
both `main` and `perry_module_init`, on the thread that runs that image's
module init — enters an image: the first thread to enter owns the primary,
every later one gets a fresh image. perry/thread workers and worker_threads
Workers adopt their spawner's image before running anything, because they never
run module init. A thread that neither entered nor adopted (a pump firing JS
for the primary heap, a reactor thread, a libtest thread) uses the primary,
i.e. the process-global table it saw before, so single-image programs are
unchanged. Each former `static RwLock<..>` is a `static ImageTable<RwLock<..>>`
whose read()/write() return the same guard types, so the call sites are
untouched. Latches and VTABLE_GEN stay process-global on purpose.

Tests: two application threads registering the same class id with different
method addresses each dispatch to their own (sabotage-verified: with the enter
made a no-op the last writer wins and the test fails on the func_ptr); a
spawned worker shares its spawner's image while a second application sees
neither; a thread without an image reads the primary.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZJbhb2FTuakurTHPAKQgd

* docs(changelog): fragment for #8893 (per-image class registries, #8546)

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZJbhb2FTuakurTHPAKQgd

* perf(codegen): bound TailCallElim's alloca walk on wide statepoint functions

`TailCallElimPass::markTails` walks the transitive SSA uses of every alloca;
only loads/stores and nocapture call arguments stop it. On a
statepoint-rewritten function an alloca handed to any runtime call reaches
the statepoint token, its gc.relocates and, through their gc-live bundles,
every later statepoint, so each walk covers the whole function and the pass
costs allocas x uses. Coop's Next.js route (jsonwebtoken's bundled entry:
400 allocas, 643k post-RS4GC instructions, 3.4k statepoints, 477k
relocates; ~1.6M visited uses per alloca) held one LLVM worker for ~100
CPU-minutes in that walk on a unit whose remaining `-Os` passes take ~16 s.

Before the optimization pipeline runs, estimate the walk as
`allocas x instructions` per function and stamp
`"disable-tail-calls"="true"` on any function over the budget (default
2^26; `PERRY_LL_TRE_MAX_ALLOCA_WALK=<n>` raises/lowers it, `0`/`off`
disables). That attribute is TRE's own early-out, so the function keeps
every other pass at the requested level (#8421); it gives up exactly
tail-recursion-to-loop and sibling-call codegen, and it is not `optnone`
(#8583). The trip is logged with the function's name and factors, and the
knob is a build/object cache input.

Fixes #8883

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZJbhb2FTuakurTHPAKQgd

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Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com>
Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph3@skelpo.com>
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Landed on main via the #8898 batch.

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