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Summary

  • add an opt-in perry-runtime/node-api-host feature with a thread-owned Node-API v8 environment, opaque generation-checked handles, strict handle scopes, strong references, pending exceptions, and mutable GC root scanning
  • implement 81 C-ABI entry points covering primitives and strings, objects/arrays/properties, BigInt/date/symbol values, errors, references, functions, callback info, and native-to-Perry calls
  • keep Perry throws inside the host boundary: JS-capable operations convert them to napi_pending_exception, and callback-thrown exceptions propagate only after addon code returns
  • document the implementation status and keep the compiler/loader integration disabled so default builds retain the zero-byte path

Scope

This advances Stage 1 of #8523; it does not close the tracker. Weak references/finalizers, external values, buffers/typed arrays, async/TSFN support, loader/export-table integration, opt-in policy, distribution, and real-addon gates remain staged follow-ups. Unsupported weak/external operations currently fail safely rather than exposing an untraced Perry address.

No package version bump is included.

Validation

  • cargo fmt -p perry-runtime -- --check
  • cargo check -p perry-runtime
  • cargo check -p perry-runtime --features node-api-host
  • cargo test -p perry-runtime --features node-api-host node_api_host::tests -- --test-threads=1 (11 passed)
  • cargo clippy -p perry-runtime --features node-api-host --lib (passes; repository has existing warnings)
  • python scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.py
  • python -X utf8 scripts/gc_rekeyed_key_tables.py
  • python scripts/check_gc_doc_claims.py

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  • New Features

    • Added an opt-in Node-API host core for prebuilt native addons.
    • Added support for JavaScript values, objects, arrays, strings, errors, BigInt, symbols, dates, properties, and type checks.
    • Added handle scopes, references, callbacks, exception handling, and garbage-collection-safe value tracking.
    • Added status reporting and validation for invalid handles and unsupported operations.
    • Added safe handling for unsupported external values and weak references.
  • Documentation

    • Updated Node-API host documentation to reflect the initial feature set and current limitations.

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The runtime adds an opt-in Node-API host core. It provides GC-safe handles, values, properties, scopes, references, exceptions, native callbacks, status reporting, and tests for these APIs.

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Node-API host implementation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Feature wiring and host environment
crates/perry-runtime/Cargo.toml, crates/perry-runtime/src/lib.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/tests.rs, changelog.d/..., docs/src/internals/...
Adds the disabled-by-default feature, environment-local handles, thread validation, status and error reporting, GC root rewriting, version reporting, documentation, changelog coverage, and environment tests.
JavaScript value APIs
crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/values.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/tests.rs
Adds primitive, string, coercion, property, array, error, BigInt, symbol, date, external-value, and instanceof APIs with validation and tests.
Scopes, references, and exceptions
crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/scopes.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/tests.rs
Adds LIFO handle scopes, escapable handles, strong references, pending exceptions, fatal errors, and lifetime tests.
Native callback invocation
crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/functions.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/tests.rs
Adds native function creation, callback information, new-target access, JavaScript calls, callback exception propagation, and invocation tests.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e9230

The opt-in Node-API host remains isolated from default builds, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant NativeAddon
  participant NodeAPIHost
  participant JavaScriptRuntime
  participant GarbageCollector
  NativeAddon->>NodeAPIHost: create handles and native functions
  NodeAPIHost->>JavaScriptRuntime: create values and invoke closures
  JavaScriptRuntime->>NodeAPIHost: pass callback arguments and exceptions
  GarbageCollector->>NodeAPIHost: scan and rewrite live handles
  NodeAPIHost-->>NativeAddon: return values and NapiStatus results
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/functions.rs`:
- Around line 189-193: Update the argv population logic around args and capacity
so every slot from the copied argument count through capacity is explicitly
filled with the runtime’s undefined value, while preserving existing argument
copies and the null argv guard. Extend the relevant Node-API test to verify
missing requested arguments receive undefined rather than stale or uninitialized
handles.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/mod.rs`:
- Around line 175-225: Refactor handle storage around add_handle_at_depth,
invalidate_scope, token, and value_bits to reclaim released handles: maintain
free lists for slot indices and token boxes, increment generations when slots
are released, and reuse token allocations while preserving valid addon-visible
pointers. Replace token’s linear pointer scan with an address-to-slot lookup,
and ensure root scanning skips reclaimed entries while stale tokens continue
failing generation validation.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/scopes.rs` around
lines 18 - 19: Covers unreclaimed scope-token and reference-record allocations
during scope closure and reference deletion.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/scopes.rs`:
- Around line 294-308: Update napi_get_and_clear_last_exception so a None
pending_exception_bits case writes a null handle to result and returns
NapiStatus::Ok; only create a handle when exception bits are present, preserving
the existing invalid-argument behavior for a null result.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/tests.rs`:
- Around line 147-151: Update both string output buffers in the affected tests
to use std::ffi::c_char instead of i8, ensuring their pointers match the *mut
c_char APIs such as napi_get_value_string_utf8.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/values.rs`:
- Around line 1128-1149: Root the non-null description value with
crate::gc::RuntimeHandleScope before calling crate::symbol::alloc_symbol, then
reload the string pointer from that handle immediately before allocation. Follow
the established create_error_kind pattern so the symbol receives a valid pointer
even if allocation moves the description string.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/node_api_host/values.rs`:
- Around line 497-499: Update the length guard in the string conversion path to
reject UTF-16 input whose maximum WTF-8 encoding could exceed u32::MAX, using
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* perf: cache owning Uint32Array admissions

* perf: fast-path Array subclass length misses

* perf(codegen): route proven Array length writes

* perf(runtime): bulk-truncate ordinary dense arrays

* chore: add array truncation changelog

* runtime: add Node-API host core

* docs: add Node-API host changelog fragment

* runtime: harden Node-API host contracts

* runtime: bound Node-API UTF-16 encoding

* codegen(calls): pad under-applied same-module direct calls with undefined (#8770)

A same-module direct call with fewer arguments than the callee's declared
parameter count lowered only the provided args, leaving the remaining FP
argument registers holding caller-saved garbage — which the callee then
read as JS values. The cross-module twin (extern_func.rs, the issue #608
arm) has always padded missing trailing args with TAG_UNDEFINED; the
same-module plain arm sat "one else away" (#7154's own words) unpadded.

On the Claude Code bundle — one giant module, so EVERY direct call
resolves through the same-module arm — `aP([q])` for
`function aP(q, K = !1, _)` handed K/_ whatever d1/d2 held after
js_array_from_values: impossible-NaN bit patterns (0xffffffffffffffff)
that flowed into truthiness tests and method receivers (`_.get(A)`) and
faulted in shape_is_url_search_params / js_is_truthy (~60% of `cc -p`
runs SEGV), or silently corrupted the async iteration ("Detected
unsettled top-level await", most of the rest).

With the padding, `cc -p` runs 30/30 clean: 0 SEGV, 0 hangs, 0 unsettled
awaits, node-identical output on every run. The GC-knob correlations the
long #8770 investigation chased (scavenge pacing, conservative-scan
"fixes") were register-content side effects of the missing padding, not
collector bugs.

Regression test: an under-applied direct call to a 3-param callee must
emit all three double args, the omitted two as the TAG_UNDEFINED literal.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ay8VyLkKbm8Hkc1xmvTEsP

* fix(async_hooks): complete node suite parity

* chore: batch-landing fixes (node-api scoped ptrs, header/ic_miss splits, fmt)

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Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com>
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Landed on main via the #8857 batch.

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