react-compiler: remove a dead store in a `try`, and do not compile a function that keeps a reassignment only for a throw by robobun · Pull Request #45958 · oven-sh/bun

robobun · 2026-10-18T19:11:58Z

Follow-up to #44805: a regression on main, in no release.

Problem

With --react-compiler, a reassignment in a try that nothing reads breaks the component: ReferenceError: items is not defined in its own try, or the element of an earlier render.
Cause: value_may_throw (src/react_compiler/optimization/prune_maybe_throws.rs:145) keeps the store as able to throw. handle_instruction (src/react_compiler/inference/propagate_scope_dependencies_hir.rs:2185) takes it as a read.

Fix

A build removes the dead store again, as 1.4.3 and babel-plugin-react-compiler 1.0.0 do.
x++ or a pattern can throw, so it stays. When it reassigns a variable, the function is left as written. What a pattern declares is recorded.
bun lint keeps the old rule (flag reassignments_can_throw). Its reports do not change.
Verified: DeadStoreInATry in test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts (19 forms, 17 wrong on main). Self-reviewed: 5 concerns raised on this part, 5 addressed.

Background

A memo block is if (changed) { compute, save } else { load }. It saves and loads each variable that it assigns.
In a try, Add bun lint and bun format #44805 keeps what can throw.
Considered: record the kept write. Its memo block then gives the variable back on a path that did not assign it (react-compiler: fix a throw on each render and stale values for a let that a memo block reassigns #42482).

Downsides

A function that keeps a reassignment only for a throw is not compiled: 2,977 of 12,000 generated components, 0 of 10,088 functions in 9 real codebases.
A store before its let loses its caught ReferenceError, as on 1.4.3.
2 of 24,000 generated components are right on main and wrong here (react-compiler: fix a throw on each render and stale values for a let that a memo block reassigns #42482, react-compiler: treat a throw into a catch handler as reactive control flow #42481). Release binary: text +512 bytes.

Notes

Report. A differential fuzz run (compiler on against compiler off) found it. The report is a chat thread. There is no GitHub issue. The tests have what the report asks for: three renders and more, a useMemo callback, an IIFE, a try in a catch, ++, +=, patterns, and the const parsed form, each with and without minifySyntax.

History of this PR. The first cut (22506e0) recorded each kept update or pattern as a write of its memo block. Public review found that a block then gives the variable back on a path that did not assign it: [label] = next in a try on a path that returns was draft | draft | draft, and draft | saved | draft on main. A second cut added the rule that repairs that (a memo block depends on the value that each variable it assigns comes in with). A self-review found that the rule makes code without a try stale, and that it is the rule of #42482. It is out of this PR and on the branch robobun/14c55e03/memo-block-entry-value for that work. This cut does not record a kept reassignment and does not compile its function. It is no longer stacked on #43603.

The scripts of the report. Release builds. "main" is 0c864a0.

script	compiler off	1.4.3	main	this PR
declaration lost (`items = 19`)	`parsed`	`parsed`	`caught ReferenceError: items is not defined`	`parsed`
stale element (`status = "saved"`)	`draft saved draft`	`draft saved draft`	`draft draft draft`	`draft saved draft`
the same with `--minify-syntax` or `--minify`	`draft saved draft`	`draft draft draft`	`draft saved draft`	`draft saved draft`
`useMemo` callback (`page = 2`)	`1 2 1`	`1 2 1`	`1 1 1`	`1 2 1`
`const parsed = ...` behind the store: no flag, `--minify-syntax`, `--minify`	`draft saved draft`	`draft saved draft`	`draft draft draft`	`draft saved draft`

oxc-transform-react is the compiler that #44805 took the rule from. Versions 0.145.0 and 0.154.0 print caught ReferenceError: items is not defined and draft draft draft for the two first scripts. 0.144.0 is right.

Three effects, one cause. Dependency collection took every instruction that is kept only for its throw for one that only reads.

The declaration stayed in the memo block of its first value, and the store printed behind that block.
The memo block that reads the variable and holds the store ended with $[1] = status after the store. A render whose prop had that value passed the guard and got the cached element.
let { a } = props; ... a.b; in a try: the pattern that declares a stayed in a memo block, and the read of a that is kept for its throw printed behind it: ReferenceError: a is not defined.

What this PR does with each kind of write that stays in a try only for a throw.

kind	main	this PR
`x = v`, nothing reads `x`	kept, no memo block knows of it	removed
`x += v`	the same	the store is removed, `x + v` stays
`x++`, `[x] = v`, `({ x } = v)`	kept, no memo block knows of it	the function is left as written
`x = v; x.length;` (the store stays for what reads it for a throw)	the same	the function is left as written
`let { a } = v; a.b;`	`a is not defined`	the declaration is recorded

"Left as written" is for a client build. A server build has no memo blocks and keeps such a write where it is. bun lint keeps the rule of main.

The 19 forms of DeadStoreInATry, five renders each. The last two renders throw in the try.

	1.4.3	main	this PR
forms that differ from the plain build	6	17	0
the same with `--minify-syntax`	9	7	0
forms left as written	0	0	9
the same with `--minify-syntax`	0	0	5

1.4.3 is right for each render that does not throw. Its 6 forms lose a caught throw, which Add bun lint and bun format #44805 repaired.
The forms with a plain store have the cache sizes of 1.4.3.
--minify-syntax joins a store and the expression statement behind it into one sequence. The compiler then keeps the store for its value. That is why the posted script fails on main only without the flag, and the const parsed form fails in each mode.
WriteKeptForItsThrowOnAPathThatReturns has the component of the public review and five more. They render right, as written.

Differential runs. Compiled build against plain build, release builds, "main" is 0c864a0.

Run A: 12,000 generated components, 17 renders each on one kept cache. A component has two locals and a try with 1 to 4 statements: stores, updates, patterns, reads that are kept for their throw, declarations that only such a read uses, calls, a nested try. Many are in an if that returns behind the try. Props are taken apart in the parameter list, and one prop changes from a render to the next.

	1.4.3	main	this PR
build aborts	124	0	0
compiled	7,208	9,532	6,570
wrong, input never throws	892	110	44
the same with `--minify-syntax`		100	78
wrong, input throws in some renders	1,644	220	109
the same with `--minify-syntax`		275	241

Right on main and wrong here, input never throws: 0, with and without --minify-syntax. The first cut had 17.
Right on main and wrong here, input throws: 1. main leaves that component as written. Here the dead store is gone, the function is compiled, and an element does not see what its handler wrote (react-compiler: treat a throw into a catch handler as reactive control flow #42481). With --minify-syntax: 0.
Right on 1.4.3 and on main and wrong here: 0 in each run.
Compiled on main and left as written here: 2,977 (836 with --minify-syntax). 43 of them are wrong on main. The generator puts a kept reassignment in most components.
The 44 that stay wrong are wrong on main too: the older classes of react-compiler: fix a throw on each render and stale values for a let that a memo block reassigns #42482 and react-compiler: treat a throw into a catch handler as reactive control flow #42481.

Run B, the first one for this PR: 12,000 components of the same kind with props passed whole and 8 renders. Wrong on main 45, here 9. 1 is right on main and wrong here: let v = [props.a]; ... try { w += 1; info.n = count(props.m); } catch (e) { v = 2; }. Its memo block gives v back, and nothing compares the value that v comes in with (#42482). On main the block never hits its cache, because the kept store spoils its saved dependency. 1.4.3 is wrong for it too.

Run C: 12,000 components without a try, from the self-review. The 30 bundles are byte for byte those of main.

189 forms written by hand for the second review: wrong on main 58, here 45 (with --minify-syntax 90 and 85). Right on main and wrong here: 2, both a store before its let (next section). With --minify-syntax: 0.

What is lost: a store before its let. Such a program throws at that store on each run. The store is in a try.

form	compiler off	1.4.3	main	this PR
`{ try { x = 1 } catch ... let x; }`	caught: `Cannot access 'x' before initialization`	no throw	no throw	no throw
`switch`: the store in the first `case`, `let x` in the second	caught	no throw	no throw	no throw
`switch`: `let x` in the first `case`, the store in the second	caught	no throw	caught: `x is not defined`	no throw
loop body: the store, then `let x`	caught	no throw	caught	no throw

In the two first forms the kept store became the declaration on main: try { let x = 1; }.
main has the two last throws for other reasons than the kept store. It prints each case as a block, so the store is outside the block of its let, and strict mode throws for the name. It leaves the loop form as written.
StoreBeforeItsDeclarationThrows is a todo test for these forms. A pattern in such a place is not changed by this PR.

#43603. With the store removed, a try body can have nothing left that throws, and PruneMaybeThrows removes the handler.

A handler of more than one block: since Hardening: fix crashes across the runtime, bundler, dev server, shell and CLI #46021 the function is left as written. react-compiler: keep the statements after a try body that cannot throw, and assign a hoisted function that escapes its scope #43603 compiles it. TryBodyOfDeadStoresKeepsTheCodeBehindIt holds these forms by what they render, with or without react-compiler: keep the statements after a try body that cannot throw, and assign a hoisted function that escapes its scope #43603.
A handler of one block: the function is compiled. When the handler alone called a function that is declared behind the try, the memo block of that function has to assign it. That is one line of react-compiler: keep the statements after a try body that cannot throw, and assign a hoisted function that escapes its scope #43603 in prune_hoisted_contexts.rs, and it is in this PR: without it HoistedFunction renders onClick: undefined.
AssignedInCatch is left as written: a phi behind the try keeps the operand of the handler that is gone. That is the shape of react-compiler: fix skipped functions and build aborts for dead code in a try body #43658.

bun lint. A thrown invariant drops all findings of a function, so which functions compile decides what is reported. Both flavors keep the rule of main. Measured against main: the same findings on the 1,807 fixture files (448 with the react/* rules, 243 with the react-hooks/* rules) and on 400 generated components (1,652 and 446). The new oracle input dead-store-in-try.jsx pins the flag for the react/* rules: without it the input gets react(invariant), and oxlint 1.87.0 reports nothing.

Not fixed here.

A memo block that assigns a variable on some of its paths gives back a stale value when nothing compares the value that came in: let v = a; try { work(); } catch (e) { v = 2; } and the like. 1.4.3 has it (react-compiler: fix a throw on each render and stale values for a let that a memo block reassigns #42482, [Compiler Bug]: Variable reassigned across two reactive scopes is clobbered by the later scope's cache restore react/react#37224).
let v = o; if (v == null) v = DEFAULTS; info.push(v.size) throws a TypeError in the guard of its memo block on main since Add bun lint and bun format #44805. 1.4.3 is right. It has no try, and this PR does not change it.
What depends on a throw is not taken as reactive (react-compiler: treat a throw into a catch handler as reactive control flow #42481, and the todo test WhatDependsOnAThrowIsReactive).
Other instructions are kept for a throw that they cannot have: a bare load, ===, !, typeof, void. They cost output and cache slots.

Other checks.

All 1,806 upstream fixture inputs, each built alone: 0 outputs differ from main with --target=browser, 0 with --target=bun.
Nine real codebases (excalidraw, karakeep, mastodon, monkeytype, openclaw, pawn-appetit, react-virtuoso, register, twenty): 9,920 .tsx and .jsx files, 10,088 compiled functions. 0 outputs differ from main.

Cost.

Release binary, size, main 0c864a0 against this PR: text 107,319,645 to 107,320,157 (+512 bytes), data and bss unchanged. bloaty is not available in the build container.
Compile time was not measured in instructions: valgrind and perf are not available in the build container. Per function without a try: nothing new. With a try that holds something that can throw: one pass over the instructions that are kept only for a throw.

Self-review. The second review was of the cut with the rule. Its concerns on this part: land the rule before this part (met in another way: nothing here needs the rule), leave the stack on #43603, rewrite the paragraph on the stack, rebuild the "main" column on today's main, and correct what the body said of a pattern before its let. Its 13 concerns on the rule go with the rule. This cut has no review of its own yet.

Suites run on the debug build, on a merge of main 0c864a0: react-compiler.test.ts (122 pass, 2 todo), react-compiler-fixtures.test.ts (3,293 pass), react-compiler-fixtures-run.test.ts (849 pass), test/cli/lint/react-compiler.test.ts (26 pass), test/bundler/bundler_jsx.test.ts (65 pass).

… catch Dead code elimination can empty a try body. PruneMaybeThrows then removes the catch handler and turns the try terminal into a goto. remove_unnecessary_try_catch removed only the first block of the handler from the predecessors of the fallthrough. A handler of more than one block reaches the fallthrough from its last block, so that stale predecessor stayed and the fallthrough was not merged into the end of the try block. BuildReactiveFunction visits that block only from a try terminal, so every statement after the try statement was dropped. Remove every removed block from the predecessors of the fallthrough. With one predecessor left, a phi of that block can still have the operand of the removed handler, when the catch body assigns a local that is read later. merge_consecutive_blocks asserts on that. Report it before the merge as the invariant error that upstream has there, so the function is skipped. Before, a catch body of one block that assigns such a local aborted the build on that assert.

The reason now carries the operand count, as the invariant in upstream's mergeConsecutiveBlocks and the assert in merge_consecutive_blocks do.

…t-compiler-dead-try-branching-catch

remove_unnecessary_try_catch drops every removed block from the predecessors of the block after the try statement. merge_consecutive_blocks now reports a phi that keeps an operand of the removed handler as an invariant error itself, so the check for it in prune_maybe_throws is gone. Dead code elimination now keeps a load that can throw in a try body. The test uses try bodies in which nothing can throw: a constant, and a check that process.env.NODE_ENV folds away.

Add five functions to the test: a switch case, a useMemo callback, a mutation after the try, a debugger statement in the try body, and a catch with a binding inside an outer try. Add two todo tests for wrong code that this change does not repair: a do-while whose test is unreachable, and an inlined function in a try body that loses its handler.

With the change to remove_unnecessary_try_catch, a function that a removed catch body calls, declared below the try, goes from skipped to compiled. Its memo block then prints a declaration that shadows the outer `let`, so the value is undefined on a cache miss. The same output exists on main without a try, when the early reference is dead code. PruneHoistedContexts now turns that store into an assignment. The open react/react#37834 adds the same line upstream. Add a test for it, two rows for a memo block that spans the try, and a second do-while control. Correct two test comments.

… kept for their throw Since #44805 dead code elimination keeps a reassignment in a `try` that nothing reads, as able to throw, and dependency collection passes over what such an instruction assigns. The declaration stays in an earlier memo block (`ReferenceError: items is not defined`), or the memo block remembers a dependency as it was after the store and returns an older element. - `value_may_throw` says no for a store, so dead code elimination removes it again. - `handle_instruction`: an update or a pattern that is kept for its throw goes on to its own arm, which records what it assigns or declares. - `EnvironmentConfig::reassignments_can_throw` keeps both as they were for the oxlint rules of `bun lint`, whose reports are oxc's.

…t-compiler-try-store

robobun · 2026-10-18T19:12:09Z

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robobun · 2026-10-18T19:12:14Z

Status: reworked at ff49269, in draft until CI is green. It no longer needs #43603.

The regression that public review found is gone. [label] = next in a try on a path that returns renders draft | saved | draft again, as on main and 1.4.3. This cut does not record a pattern or an update that stays for its throw, and does not compile the function that holds one. react-compiler/WriteKeptForItsThrowOnAPathThatReturns has that component and five more.

How the original bug was reproduced. bun build --react-compiler on main (0c864a0), then three renders on one kept memo cache:

let items = new Map(); count(items); try { items = 19; JSON.parse(text); } catch (e) { ... } prints caught ReferenceError: items is not defined. The plain build, 1.4.3 and this branch print parsed.
let status = props.status; const info = { was: status }; try { status = "saved"; info.data = JSON.parse(props.text); } catch (e) { ... } prints draft draft draft. The plain build, 1.4.3 and this branch print draft saved draft.

react-compiler/DeadStoreInATry-* in test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts has 19 such forms. 17 differ from the plain build on main, 0 on this branch.

coderabbitai · 2026-10-18T19:17:15Z

Walkthrough

React Compiler configuration and optimization now apply a configurable rule for whether local and context reassignments in try blocks can throw. The changes also update catch-related control-flow cleanup and add regression coverage for dead stores, control flow, hoisted functions, and bundler targets.

Changes

Try-block reassignment handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure reassignment handling `src/react_compiler/hir/environment_config.rs`, `src/lint/react_compiler/compile.rs`, `src/react_compiler/inference/propagate_scope_dependencies_hir.rs`	`EnvironmentConfig` adds `reassignments_can_throw`. Oxlint enables the flag, while its default and ESLint configuration disable it. Semantic-only caught instructions use the flag when deciding whether to continue assignment handling.
Apply throw analysis and cleanup `src/react_compiler/optimization/dead_code_elimination.rs`, `src/react_compiler/optimization/prune_maybe_throws.rs`, `src/react_compiler/reactive_scopes/prune_hoisted_contexts.rs`, `src/react_compiler/hir/cfg_utils.rs`	Dead-code analysis uses the flag to classify reassignment stores in try blocks. Maybe-throw pruning treats local and context stores as non-throwing. Hoisted function stores and fallthrough predecessor cleanup are also updated.
Cover try-block behavior in tests `test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts`, `test/cli/lint/oracle/react-compiler/inputs.ts`, `test/cli/lint/oracle/react-compiler/expected.json`	Bundler tests cover try/catch control flow, dead stores, hoisted functions, and browser and Bun targets. Lint fixtures add a dead-store-in-try case, and the expected report updates its file count.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b5262

Resolve the reported incorrect renders before merging, and make the output test reject missing functions.

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+    match value {
+        InstructionValue::StoreLocal { lvalue, .. }
+        | InstructionValue::StoreContext { lvalue, .. } => {
+            env.config.reassignments_can_throw && lvalue.kind == InstructionKind::Reassign


🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve correct renders when removing caught stores.

When this branch removes a caught StoreLocal reassignment, a later render can hit a memo cache and restore a stale let value instead of retaining the value assigned in catch. The PR’s differential run reports two components that rendered correctly on main and render incorrectly with this change. Fix the missing dependency for catch-assigned locals, or leave this shape uncompiled before removing its store. (github.com)

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Not repaired in this PR, and stated under Downsides.

The count is now 2 of 24,000 generated components that are right on main and wrong here. Both are older bugs that the kept store hides on main.

One of them: let v = [props.a]; ... try { w += 1; info.n = count(props.m); } catch (e) { v = 2; }. Its memo block gives v back, and nothing compares the value that v comes in with. On main the block never hits its cache, because the kept store spoils its saved dependency. 1.4.3 is wrong for this component too, and for the plain form let v = a; try { work(); } catch (e) { v = 2; }.

I built the repair (a memo block depends on the value that each variable it assigns comes in with). A self-review found that it makes code without a try stale in its simple form, and that it is the rule of #42482. It is a change of its own. The commit is on the branch robobun/14c55e03/memo-block-entry-value.

@robobun Thanks for the clarification. The kept store masks an existing memo-dependency bug on main; removing it exposes the bug in two generated components. I understand that the entry-value dependency fix is separate work, and I will not ask for it in this PR.

The two changed render results remain a known downside of this PR, so I’ll leave this finding open. Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for the fix?

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Learnt from: robobun Repo: oven-sh/bun PR: 45958 File: src/react_compiler/optimization/dead_code_elimination.rs:0-0 Timestamp: 2026-10-21T14:28:27.461Z Learning: In Bun's React Compiler, a memo block that assigns a local can return a stale cached value if its dependencies do not include the value that the local has on entry. A retained store can prevent the cache hit and mask this issue; removing that store from a try block can expose it. The entry-value dependency rule is separate work associated with #42482.

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No new issue is needed. #42482 is the open PR for that bug, and the commit with the rule is on the branch robobun/14c55e03/memo-block-entry-value for its rework.

@robobun Understood. I won’t open a new issue. #42482 is the existing PR for this bug, and robobun/14c55e03/memo-block-entry-value contains the rule commit for its rework.

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Learnt from: robobun Repo: oven-sh/bun Timestamp: 2026-10-21T14:28:36.958Z Learning: In Bun's React Compiler, a memo block that assigns a local can return a stale cached value if its dependencies do not include the value that the local has on entry. A retained store can prevent the cache hit and mask this issue; removing that store from a try block can expose it. The entry-value dependency rule is separate work associated with #42482.

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claude

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the get/get_mut(..).unwrap() pair in remove_unnecessary_try_catch (src/react_compiler/hir/cfg_utils.rs) — only contains_key reads sit between them, so the key cannot vanish. The new may_throw_in_a_try helper replaces value_may_throw at both of its caught-instruction call sites in dead_code_elimination.rs, so no sibling site keeps the old rule.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the Rust React Compiler port (DCE, PruneMaybeThrows, scope-dependency propagation, try/catch CFG cleanup, hoisted-context pruning), the lint compile entry point, and ~1100 lines of bundler tests; it touches no security-sensitive surface. Three confirmed findings on stale memo output, lost lint reports, and dropped caught ReferenceErrors are posted inline, so a human review is needed; the note above records what else was examined.

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claude · 2026-10-18T19:29:15Z

+        | InstructionValue::FinishMemoize { .. }
+        // Only before its `let`, or to a function expression's own name: `EnvironmentConfig::reassignments_can_throw`.
+        | InstructionValue::StoreLocal { .. }
+        | InstructionValue::StoreContext { .. } => false,


🟡 (optional) Components that assign a variable in a try before its let in a later case or loop iteration now run past a catch that main entered; the caught ReferenceError disappears from a build. prune_maybe_throws.rs:144-147 now says every StoreLocal/StoreContext cannot throw, so dead_code_elimination.rs:181-188 removes the store and the handler with it when nothing else in the block throws. Main kept the store and, for the switch and loop forms, still threw inside the try so the handler ran. Fix: a Reassign to an identifier whose declaration has not been reached on that path must still count as able to throw (or be kept by may_throw_in_a_try) so the handler stays; gating only on reassignments_can_throw drops it for every build.

Why this was flagged

Trigger: switch (k) { case 1: let x; break; case 2: try { x = 1 } catch (e) { setError(e) } } or a loop body with the store before let x, built with --react-compiler (reassignments_can_throw false at environment_config.rs:175). may_throw_in_a_try (dead_code_elimination.rs:181-188) returns false for the Reassign store, find_referenced_identifiers (:239-242) does not reference it, the store is removed, the block has nothing that throws, and prune_maybe_throws.rs:97-111 nulls the handler; the catch body and its side effects (setError, logging, fallback UI) are gone from the output. The PR's own table says main prints 'caught: x is not defined' for the switch and loop forms where this PR prints 'no throw', and StoreBeforeItsDeclarationThrows at react-compiler.test.ts:3468 is only a todo. The remedy is to keep the store (and so the handler) when the lvalue's declaration is not dominated by the store, which value_may_throw_when_pruning at :123-128 already does for the pruning side.

Verification: prune_maybe_throws.rs:145-147 now returns false for every StoreLocal/StoreContext. may_throw_in_a_try (dead_code_elimination.rs:181-189) returns false for the store when the flag is off, so find_referenced_identifiers (:240-243) no longer keeps it. In prune_maybe_throws_impl (prune_maybe_throws.rs:97-111) *handler = None and the catch is deleted. On the base, the store was kept, threw and the handler ran.

The PR body states this, with a table and a todo test (StoreBeforeItsDeclarationThrows).

The kept store did not keep that throw in the plain form. { try { x = 1 } catch ... let x; } builds to try { let x = 1; } on main: no throw. main has the throw for the switch form for another reason: it prints each case as a block, so x = 1 is outside the block of let x, and strict mode throws x is not defined. It leaves the loop form as written. 1.4.3 and babel-plugin-react-compiler 1.0.0 have no throw in any of these forms.

A rule by dominance needs a dominator tree in dead code elimination, and what main prints for these forms is not the dead-zone error either. I left it out. A pattern in such a place is not changed by this PR.

robobun · 2026-10-20T09:07:00Z

#43658 is closed, so the functions that this PR leaves as written (AssignedInCatch, the Downsides bullet) have no follow-up there. What I found on a build of this branch (b5262af), a build of main, and the released 1.4.3:

Babel does the same. babel-plugin-react-compiler 1.0.0 and 0.0.0-experimental-a1856f3-20260507 leave AssignedInCatch as written with Found a block with a single predecessor but where a phi has multiple (2) operands. The row on1 | on2 | on1 as written is parity with both. 1.4.3 aborts the build on that input.
The pruned_edges hunk of react-compiler: fix skipped functions and build aborts for dead code in a try body #43658 makes right code wrong. On top of this branch it compiles 650 of 3000 generated functions that are as written here. 15 of those are right on main and on 1.4.3 and wrong with the hunk, each through a value that depends on a throw (react-compiler/WhatDependsOnAThrowIsReactive, react-compiler: treat a throw into a catch handler as reactive control flow #42481). A try in a useMemo callback is one form.
A way to compile AssignedInCatch, which I did not build. The phi behind the try keeps the operand of the catch block that reverse_postorder_blocks removed. The cleanup in prune_maybe_throws can drop each phi operand whose predecessor block is gone, before merge_consecutive_blocks. That is safe only while no try is left in the function. With a second try that can still throw, the function is as written and right here, and it would compile to a value that is stale for the same react-compiler: treat a throw into a catch handler as reactive control flow #42481 reason.
One function is right on main and wrong on this branch. Main leaves it as written (Expected non-existing phi operand's predecessor to have been mapped to a new terminal). This branch removes the store b = b, compiles the function to _c(1), and a keeps its first value. 1.4.3 is wrong in the same way, and without b = b main is too, so it is the react-compiler: treat a throw into a catch handler as reactive control flow #42481 defect and not a new one.

const get = o => o.v;
export function R1(p) {
  let a = 0;
  let b = 0;
  try {
    get(p.o);
    b = b;
  } catch {
    try {
      a = "k2";
    } catch {}
  }
  return <div r={[a, b]} />;
}

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… in a `try` only for a throw A pattern or a store that reassigns, and stays in a `try` for a throw, became an output of its memo block. The block then gave the variable back on a path that did not assign it: `[label] = next` in a `try` on a path that returns was `draft | draft | draft`, where main is `draft | saved | draft`. Left out of the account of the memo blocks, as #44805 has it, such a write loses its declaration or spoils a saved dependency. - In a client build, a function that holds an update, or a store or a pattern that reassigns, only for a throw is left as written. What a pattern declares is still recorded. - A store that only what is kept for its throw reads is kept for a throw too: `find_semantic_only_caught_instructions` takes it again. - `bun lint` keeps the rule of #44805 in both flavors, so its reports do not change. - The branch no longer holds the change of #43603 to `remove_unnecessary_try_catch`. Since #46021 a function is left as written when the body of a `try` cannot throw and its handler has more than one block. One line of #43603 stays: a memo block assigns a function that is declared behind the `try`.

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react-compiler: report the stale phi invariant with upstream's text

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