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[Bug]: Tree-shaking drops new ArrayBuffer(-1) and malformed decodeURIComponent / encodeURI calls that throw #11550
Tree-shaking preserves the throwing new ArrayBuffer(-1), decodeURIComponent('%'), and encodeURI('\uD800') calls (as Node, Rollup, esbuild, and webpack do, and as Rolldown does for new Int8Array(-1)), printing:
RangeError
URIError
URIError
What is actually happening?
Rolldown strips all three unused const x = ... declarations and prints:
new ArrayBuffer(-1) throws RangeError on negative indices, and decodeURIComponent('%') / encodeURI('\uD800') throw URIError on malformed percent-escapes or unpaired surrogates, but side-effect detection only checks new ArrayBuffer(arg) for Symbol/BigInt arguments and treats decodeURI/decodeURIComponent/encodeURI/encodeURIComponent as unconditionally pure regardless of literal arguments.
changed the title [-]Tree-shaking drops `new ArrayBuffer(-1)` and malformed `decodeURIComponent` / `encodeURI` calls that throw[/-][+][Bug]: Tree-shaking drops `new ArrayBuffer(-1)` and malformed `decodeURIComponent` / `encodeURI` calls that throw[/+]on Nov 7, 2026
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[-]Tree-shaking drops `new ArrayBuffer(-1)` and malformed `decodeURIComponent` / `encodeURI` calls that throw[/-][+][Bug]: Tree-shaking drops `new ArrayBuffer(-1)` and malformed `decodeURIComponent` / `encodeURI` calls that throw[/+]IWANABETHATGUY commentedon Nov 7, 2026
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trackoor commentedon Nov 7, 2026
Thanks, this comes from the oxc minifier, so I reported it there: oxc-project/oxc#28974