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Summary

  • carry source strictness through PropertyUpdate and IndexUpdate HIR
  • route update write-back through strict-aware PutValue semantics
  • make with environment writes honor their existing strict flag
  • add HIR and end-to-end regressions for sloppy rejected writes and strict throws

This fixes built-ins/String/S15.5.5.1_A4_T1.js from #5902. It also covers frozen objects and explicit non-writable descriptors for named and computed updates.

Progresses #5902.

Tests

  • cargo check -p perry-hir -p perry-codegen -p perry-codegen-js -p perry-codegen-wasm -p perry-transform -p perry-runtime -p perry
  • cargo test -p perry-hir --test c262_parity member_updates_preserve_script_strictness_5902 -- --exact --nocapture
  • cargo test -p perry-codegen issue7628 --lib -- --nocapture
  • cargo test -p perry --test issue_5902_sloppy_property_update sloppy_member_updates_ignore_rejected_writes -- --exact --test-threads=1 --nocapture
  • cargo test -p perry --test issue_5902_sloppy_property_update strict_member_update_still_throws_on_a_rejected_write -- --exact --test-threads=1 --nocapture
  • pinned Test262 built-ins/String/S15.5.5.1_A4_T1.js: 1 pass, 0 diff/runtime-fail/compile-fail
  • python scripts/check_test_registration.py

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed sloppy-mode ++ and -- updates on frozen or non-writable properties so rejected writes are ignored while preserving the original value.
    • Strict-mode updates continue to throw TypeError for rejected writes.
    • Applied consistent behavior to updates involving with environments.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for sloppy and strict member-update behavior, including computed properties and rejected writes.

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Member updates now preserve script strictness in HIR, code generation, and runtime writes. Sloppy rejected writes retain their values, while strict rejected writes throw TypeError. Tests cover member updates and with assignments.

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Member update strictness

Layer / File(s) Summary
HIR strictness propagation
crates/perry-hir/..., crates/perry-transform/...
PropertyUpdate and IndexUpdate record strictness. Lowering, substitution, hashing, and generated update paths preserve explicit strict or non-strict values.
Strict-aware update lowering
crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/..., crates/perry-codegen-js/..., crates/perry-codegen-wasm/...
Property and index updates pass receiver, key, value, and strictness to js_put_value_set. Rooting tests follow the unified setter call.
Runtime write integration
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/with_env.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/proxy.rs
with environment writes use js_put_value_set_ic_miss. The helper is re-exported at crate scope.
Parity and regression validation
crates/perry-hir/tests/..., crates/perry/tests/..., crates/perry-codegen/..., changelog.d/...
Tests cover strictness propagation, sloppy rejected writes, strict errors, rooting, and updated IR fixtures. The changelog records the behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to a736c

The change still fails to preserve strict versus sloppy write behavior for WebAssembly builds, and writes through with environments may use invalidated values when a Proxy check triggers garbage collection; these can cause incorrect program behavior or runtime failures, so the PR is not ready to merge until both paths are corrected.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant JavaScript
  participant HIRLowering
  participant member_update
  participant js_put_value_set
  participant RuntimeObject
  JavaScript->>HIRLowering: lower named or computed member update
  HIRLowering->>member_update: provide update and strict flag
  member_update->>js_put_value_set: write receiver, key, value, and strictness
  js_put_value_set->>RuntimeObject: apply rejected-write semantics
  RuntimeObject-->>JavaScript: retain value or throw TypeError
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Holding this one: the PR's own acceptance test fails.

test sloppy_member_updates_ignore_rejected_writes ... FAILED
  sloppy updates must not throw
  stderr: TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'length' of object '#<Object>'
test strict_member_update_still_throws_on_a_rejected_write ... ok

I split the fixture into its five independent statements to find which one
throws. Four of the five pass — the PropertyUpdate/IndexUpdate strictness
work is sound.
Only the with path is still broken:

# statement result
1 frozen.named++ ok1 1 1
2 --frozen["computed"] ok2 1 2
3 with (b) length = 0; TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'length'
4 boxed.length++ ok4 8 8
5 ++descriptor.value (non-writable) ok5 5 4

Node on the same source prints ok3 8 — a silent no-op, as sloppy mode requires.

So the third bullet of the summary — "make with environment writes honor their
existing strict flag" — has not taken effect. with_env.rs still routes to the
throwing setter for a rejected write in sloppy code. Everything else in the PR
is verified working, so this looks like one remaining call site rather than a
design problem.

Everything else I ran is green: perry-hir --test c262_parity 20/20,
perry-codegen --lib issue7628 3/3, perry-codegen --lib 1094/1094, and all 48
lint-tier gates. strict_member_update_still_throws_on_a_rejected_write passes,
so the strict direction is right — the sloppy direction is what is missing.

Happy to merge as soon as case 3 is green.

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Traced the with case a bit further, in case it saves you time — the flag
plumbing you added all looks right, so the throw is coming from below it:

  • expr/instance_misc1.rs:277 emits strict_i32 = if *strict { "1" } else { "0" }
    and passes it as the 4th argument, so codegen forwards the HIR flag.
  • object/with_env.rs:94 js_with_set_binding takes it and hands it to
    js_put_value_set_ic_miss(coerced, key, value, strict, null) — your change.
  • In proxy/put_value.rs the strict handling reads correctly to me: the array
    length branch splits on strict != 0, and the general rejected-write path
    is guarded if !ok && strict != 0. The one unconditional throw_type_error
    in that function is the null/undefined-target case, which is meant to throw
    in both modes.

So either the HIR strict is arriving as true for a .js script, or the
boxed-String length write leaves js_put_value_set_ic_miss before reaching
that guarded path. The message text is
error.rs:1759 (js_throw_type_error_immutable_write, kind 0) — worth noting
that grep -rn js_throw_type_error_immutable_write crates/ finds no caller
anywhere in the tree
, so whatever reaches it does so by some route other than
a direct Rust call. That seemed like the most useful thread to pull, and it is
where I stopped.

Everything else in the PR is verified green — see my previous comment for the
per-statement breakdown.

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Thanks for the detailed split. I traced this and the branch does not reproduce the failure when the runtime archive is rebuilt from the PR checkout.

The important detail is that cargo test -p perry --test issue_5902_sloppy_property_update builds the compiler/test binary, but Cargo does not build the perry-runtime-static staticlib target. The test pins PERRY_RUNTIME_DIR to the compiler profile directory, so an older libperry_runtime.a / perry_runtime.lib there links the pre-PR js_with_set_binding implementation and produces exactly the unconditional read-only error you saw.

A fresh matching archive makes both cases pass:

cargo build -p perry-runtime-static
cargo test -p perry --test issue_5902_sloppy_property_update

Result here: 2 passed; 0 failed. I also dumped the HIR for the isolated case and confirmed WithSet { property: length, ..., strict: false }.

The PR's Linux e2e-scoped job already performs the explicit staticlib build before running diff-named integration suites; its run of this exact suite is green (sloppy_member_updates_ignore_rejected_writes ... ok, strict_member_update_still_throws_on_a_rejected_write ... ok). So no remaining with call site is missing; this was a stale runtime archive in the manual run. Could you rerun after rebuilding perry-runtime-static?

For completeness, the red aggregate PR gate is currently from unrelated failures that also reproduce on main; the PR's exact acceptance job is green.

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Re-checked on the updated head (rebased onto #8316, changelog fragment added).
The three files I reviewed before — object/with_env.rs, proxy/put_value.rs,
expr/member_update.rs — are byte-identical to the previous revision, so I
rebuilt and re-ran rather than assuming, in case something merged into main
had changed the outcome. It has not:

test sloppy_member_updates_ignore_rejected_writes ... FAILED
  TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'length' of object '#<Object>'
test strict_member_update_still_throws_on_a_rejected_write ... ok

Same single case as before: with (b) length = 0 on a boxed String, where
Node prints ok3 8. The other four statements in the fixture still pass, so
only the with-environment path is outstanding.

Still happy to merge as soon as that case is green — the rest of the PR is
verified (perry-hir --test c262_parity 20/20, perry-codegen --lib issue7628
3/3, perry-codegen --lib 1094/1094, all 48 lint gates).

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Fixed in a736c61. The remaining failure was reproducible when the integration test linked a stale libperry_runtime.a: cargo test rebuilds the compiler/test binary but does not build staticlib targets.

The regression test now follows the repository's established integration-test pattern and builds perry-runtime-static once before compiling its JS fixtures, so the reviewer's plain command cannot silently reuse a pre-fix js_with_set_binding.

Verified from an isolated PR worktree with exactly:

cargo test -p perry --test issue_5902_sloppy_property_update

Result: 2 passed; 0 failed (sloppy_member_updates_ignore_rejected_writes and strict_member_update_still_throws_on_a_rejected_write).

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@proggeramlug, I reviewed the update.

crates/perry/tests/issue_5902_sloppy_property_update.rs now builds perry-runtime-static once before fixture compilation. The test then sets both PERRY_RUNTIME_DIR and PERRY_LIB_DIR to the directory that contains the rebuilt archive.

This matches the established integration-test pattern. It prevents the test from linking a stale libperry_runtime.a or perry_runtime.lib.

The sloppy and strict regression assertions remain intact. I found no remaining issue in this change.


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In `@crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/expr/objects.rs`:
- Line 214: Update PropertyUpdate at
crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/expr/objects.rs:214-214 and IndexUpdate at
crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/expr/objects.rs:360-360 to preserve their HIR
strict field and route both through a strict-aware write helper. Extend or reuse
the write path so sloppy-mode writes remain ignored while strict-mode writes
produce TypeError behavior.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/with_env.rs`:
- Around line 100-104: In the binding assignment flow around to_object_bindings,
create a RuntimeHandleScope before the strict has_property check and root
coerced, key, and value before any operation that may invoke user code or
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Implement strict-aware member writes for the WebAssembly target. Both update paths discard the HIR strict field and call write helpers that receive no strictness argument. The target cannot preserve sloppy ignored writes and strict-mode TypeError behavior.

  • crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/expr/objects.rs#L214-L214: lower PropertyUpdate through a strict-aware write path.
  • crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/expr/objects.rs#L360-L360: lower IndexUpdate through the same strict-aware write path.
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  • crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/expr/objects.rs#L214-L214 (this comment)
  • crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/expr/objects.rs#L360-L360
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In `@crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/expr/objects.rs` at line 214, Update
PropertyUpdate at crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/expr/objects.rs:214-214 and
IndexUpdate at crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/expr/objects.rs:360-360 to
preserve their HIR strict field and route both through a strict-aware write
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Comment on lines 100 to +104
let coerced = to_object_bindings(bindings);
let ptr = object_ptr(coerced);
if strict != 0 && !has_property(coerced, key) {
crate::error::js_throw_reference_error_unresolvable_assignment(key_as_value(key));
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crate::proxy::js_put_value_set_ic_miss(coerced, key, value, strict, std::ptr::null_mut())

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Root operands before the strict property check.

When strict != 0, has_property can invoke a Proxy has trap and collect. coerced, key, and value remain unrooted before line 104. The helper then roots values that can already be stale. Create a RuntimeHandleScope before line 101. Root all three operands. Reload them after has_property before calling js_put_value_set_ic_miss.

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Correction: my two "still failing" reports on this PR were wrong, and the cause
was on my side.

Both times I ran

cargo test --release -p perry --test issue_5902_sloppy_property_update

in a worktree where I had never built perry-runtime-static. cargo test does
not build staticlib targets, so the fixture linked a stale libperry_runtime.a
containing the pre-fix js_with_set_binding — exactly the failure mode your new
runtime_dir() helper documents and now prevents. The TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'length' I kept reporting was the OLD runtime, not this
branch's.

Rebuilt with the wrappers (cargo build --release -p perry -p perry-runtime-static -p perry-stdlib-static) at the current head:

test sloppy_member_updates_ignore_rejected_writes ... ok
test strict_member_update_still_throws_on_a_rejected_write ... ok
test result: ok. 2 passed; 0 failed

So all five statements pass, including with (b) length = 0, and the with_env.rs
change was working the whole time. My follow-up comment tracing strict through
js_with_set_bindingjs_put_value_set_ic_miss was chasing a bug that was not
there; please disregard it. Adding the explicit staticlib build to the fixture is
the right fix and would have saved us both the round trip.

Running the remaining suites and gates now, then merging.

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