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function F(){}; F.prototype.m = …; export default F; (and function f(){}; export default f; in general) gave importers a different function object from the module's own F:

  • prototype methods and statics assigned on F were missing in the importer (new F().m was undefined, F.tag was undefined),
  • F === importedF was false,
  • a call through a value (const g = f; g(), .call, .apply, new) passed garbage for missing arguments and skipped default and rest parameter handling.

This blocked axios 1.19.0 (AxiosURLSearchParams.prototype.append), uuid 14.0.1 (v5.DNS) and lodash-es 4.18.1 (MapCache.prototype.clear). With this change export default F exports F itself.

Root cause

crates/perry-hir/src/lower/module_decl.rs:1876 (the ExportDefaultExpr arm): when export default <expr> lowered to Expr::FuncRef, the export row was Export::Named { local: "default", exported: "default" }.

The CLI driver maps a renamed declared-function export back to its local name only when the row names that local and the function is is_exported (crates/perry/src/commands/compile/run_pipeline.rs:1832-1840). With local: "default" that mapping never happened. Importers therefore took the __perry_wrap_perry_fn_<src>__default closure wrapper, which is emitted by the #967 branch in crates/perry-codegen/src/codegen/artifacts.rs:1129. That wrapper forwards calls to F's body, but it is a separate closure singleton:

  • it carries none of F's expandos or prototype,
  • it has no js_register_closure_arity registration, which is where the garbage arguments came from.

export { F as default } already wrote { local: "F", exported: "default" } and worked.

A second, smaller defect had the same symptoms. is_exported is flipped by the export arms only on functions already lowered. An export clause that comes before its hoisted declaration (export { F as default }; function F(){} or export default F; function F(){}) left the flag unset, so the alias form lost identity the same way.

Fix

In the new file crates/perry-hir/src/lower/module_decl/default_export_binding.rs (the parent module_decl.rs is at 1,944 lines, so the logic can't go there):

  • default_export_function_binding: when the exported expression is an identifier naming that function, looking through parentheses and erased TypeScript wrappers (as, !, satisfies, <T>, as const, instantiation), the row becomes { local: "F", exported: "default" }. That is exactly the export { F as default } shape. Other FuncRef expressions, such as a function expression, have no local binding and keep the old row.
  • mark_exported_function_bodies: runs once after the whole module is lowered. It marks a function exported when an Export::Named row names it as its local binding and exported_functions lists its id. A value alias (export const g = F) names g, so it does not mark F. A unit test pins that.

Diff: +11/−1 in module_decl.rs, +1 in lower_module_fn.rs, plus the new file, most of which is unit tests.

Tests

  • Gap test test-files/test_gap_10434_export_default_fn_identity.ts, with helpers in test-files/_helpers/export_default_fn_10434/. It covers:
    • a constructor function with prototype methods and statics: identity against the module's own binding, two importers, a barrel re-export, a namespace import and a dynamic import; instanceof both ways; a static factory,
    • a plain function: identity, an expando, argument padding direct and through a value, .call/.apply, a loop over two function values,
    • default and rest parameters called through a value,
    • an export clause ahead of its hoisted declaration, both the export default F and the export { F as default } forms, and export default (F as unknown as typeof F),
    • cyclic imports that read each other's default after evaluation,
    • controls that already worked: export { F as default }, export default function F(){}, a class, an arrow in a const and a function expression in a const.
  • Before and after: Node 26.5.1 is the oracle. On the baseline 7661bc0 it fails with TypeError: describe is not a function on the fourth line. With each line guarded, every target line differs from Node and every control matches. On this branch the output is byte-identical to Node. Harness runs: --filter test_gap_10434 gives PARITY_FAIL on the baseline binary and PASS on this branch.
  • perry-hir unit tests (5, in default_export_binding.rs): the export row and is_exported for export default F, for export-before-declaration in both forms, and through parentheses and type assertions; plus the value-alias non-change. With both helpers stubbed to their pre-fix behaviour, the four fix tests fail (4/4).

Validation

check result
cargo test --release -p perry-hir --tests 731 passed, 0 failed, 3 ignored (51 suites)
cargo test --release -p perry --tests Supplementary, since no IR-grepping suite covers this shape. Stopped at 229 of ~380 suites to relieve disk pressure on the shared host. It hit 16 failures, and none of the failing fixtures use export default or export {}. I reran the 15 integration failures in the same tree at this branch and at 7661bc0 (same -p build set): the same 15 fail on both, and the baseline fails one more (allow_eval_env_overrides_strict_config). The remaining one, geisterhand::warm_archives_are_rebuilt_as_one_runtime_graph (Failed to run cargo … No such file or directory), is a host-environment failure and was not rerun.
./scripts/run_lint_gates.sh (full, compile tier included) 82/83 passed; pre-existing red: Public benchmark evidence freshness (benchmarks/ci_public_baseline_check.py), same failure on a 7661bc0 checkout
gap suite (PERRY_SKIP_BUILD=1 ./scripts/run_gap_tests.sh) 820 run: 814 pass, 6 parity fail, 0 compile fail, 0 crash; GAP_EXIT=0 (snapshot OK). The 6 non-passing tests are the same 6 as the baseline run on 7661bc0. The only status differences: the new test_gap_10434_export_default_fn_identity passes, and test_gap_9536_fetch_url_error was node_fail in the baseline run (Node-side) and passes here. No new failures.
python3 scripts/check_test_registration.py OK (331 files, 4 registries)

Performance

perf stat -e instructions, Linux x64, 3 runs each, PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1, same commit for both arms. Node 26.5.1 wall time is for context only; the host was at load 100–300.

microbenchmark baseline instructions this branch Δ Node wall
100M direct calls step(acc, i) to a default-imported function step 16,624,220,129 / 16,626,969,932 / 16,623,894,781 16,525,339,858 / 16,526,172,030 / 16,524,240,097 −0.60% 561–582 ms
same, export { step as default } (control) 16,546,705,100 / 16,562,471,934 / 16,522,719,143 16,522,197,660 / 16,524,336,107 / 16,523,598,516 ≈0 547–575 ms
30M calls through a function value (fns[0](acc, i)) 8,756,823,978 / 8,756,185,643 / 8,756,753,855 8,816,404,679 / 8,816,760,631 / 8,816,155,044 +0.68% 226–240 ms
same, export { step as default } (control) 8,817,188,469 / 8,816,678,021 / 8,816,460,702 8,816,827,984 / 8,817,013,174 / 8,816,582,001 ≈0 218–228 ms
1M new V(i, 2) + a.dot(new V(3, i)), default-imported constructor function crashes (dot is not a function) 38,845,495,433 / 38,726,774,087 / 38,728,594,979 107–134 ms
same, export { Vec as default } (control) 38,770,319,678 / 38,723,253,862 / 38,721,692,627 38,770,246,871 / 38,837,714,586 / 38,725,134,151 ≈0
benchmarks/bench_fibonacci.ts (unrelated control) 40,738,883,785 / 40,737,143,050 / 40,737,392,373 40,737,702,779 / 40,739,690,084 / 40,737,755,811 ≈0 12.1–13.0 s
100M direct calls, named import (control) 3,716,561,206 / 3,716,629,213 / 3,716,261,167 3,716,882,008 / 3,716,810,747 / 3,716,950,230 ≈0 548–568 ms

The default export now behaves exactly like the existing export { F as default } path on every row. The +0.68% on the through-a-value row is not new work. The importer IR is byte-identical apart from the wrapper symbol, and the producer IR is identical. The new target, __perry_wrap_…__step, is the closure that carries js_register_closure_arity, so the runtime's closure call does its normal arity-aware dispatch. The baseline's unregistered __default wrapper skipped that dispatch, and that is why it passed garbage for missing arguments.

Pre-existing and not changed here: on these rows Perry is well behind Node, and the alias controls show the gap is identical before and after. Task-clock was about 2.0 s against Node's 0.56 s for the 100M direct default-import calls, and about 1.0 s against 0.23 s through a value. This change neither adds to that gap nor closes it. Part of it: a default-imported function in a hot loop costs about 4.5× the instructions of the same function imported by name (16.5B vs 3.7B above). localize_cross_module_functions (crates/perry-transform/src/inline/cross_module.rs:562-583) only localizes ImportSpecifier::Named, so default imports are never cross-module inlined. This is a follow-up, see below.

Package check (informational)

  • axios 1.19.0, default ESM entry (import axios from "axios" with compilePackages: ["axios"]):
    • Baseline: TypeError: append is not a function.
    • This branch: new AxiosURLSearchParams(...) has append/toString, and buildURL, getUri, a GET with params and a JSON POST against a local Node server all match Node.
    • Next blockers seen in a wider probe:
      • response.headers["x-custom"] reads undefined,
      • err instanceof AxiosError is false for a 404,
      • timeout: 50 never fires,
      • a URLSearchParams request body is JSON-serialized as {"_entries":[…]} because Object.prototype.toString.call(new URLSearchParams()) is [object Object].
  • uuid 14.0.1: baseline v5.DNS undefined and TypeError: Namespace must be array-like; this branch matches Node (v5.DNS, v3.URL, v5(), v3(), and v1/v4/v7 called through values).
  • lodash-es 4.18.1: baseline TypeError: clear is not a function; this branch matches Node for get, memoize and set.
  • long 5.3.2: a direct import Long from "long" probe (fromInt, fromString, multiply) already matched Node on the baseline. The mysql2 packet.js path from the issue was not re-run.

Not verified

  • mysql2 end to end (the long path the issue names).
  • macOS / Windows. Everything above ran on Linux x64.
  • The four axios follow-ups listed above.

Follow-ups noticed (not fixed here)

  • Cross-module inliner clones functions used as values. gather_cross_module_functions copies a small exported function together with the helpers it references by FuncRef, including value-position references. So function f(){}; export function isSame(x){ return x === f; }; export { f }; returns false for isSame(importedF): the inlined isSame compares against the importer's private clone of f. Expandos read inside a cloned body read the clone too. The bug is independent of this PR and also affects plain named exports.
  • Default imports are never cross-module inlined (4.5× instructions vs a named import, see the perf section).
  • new on an any-typed function constructor is slow: ~17k instructions per new V(i, 2) and ~5.5k per a.dot(b) prototype call, on the baseline as well, same module.

Fixes #10434

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Default-exported functions referenced by name now preserve their original identity.
    • Improved handling for hoisted declarations, aliases, parenthesized expressions, type assertions, static properties, prototype methods, constructors, and cyclic imports.
    • Default exports remain consistent across static and dynamic imports, including calls, instanceof checks, and default or rest parameters.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for function identity, cross-module imports, cyclic dependencies, and related default-export scenarios.

Ralph Küpper added 2 commits September 17, 2026 11:00
`function F(){}; export default F;` lowered to a synthetic `default`
export row, so importers materialized a second function object: no
prototype methods or statics assigned on F, `F === imported` false, and
missing arguments unpadded when called through a value. Export the
binding itself, as `export { F as default }` does, and mark a function
named by an export row as exported after the whole module is lowered so
an export clause ahead of its hoisted declaration resolves the same way.
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The lowering pipeline preserves the declared function object for export default F. It also marks hoisted exported function bodies after module lowering. Unit and integration tests cover identity, statics, prototypes, parameters, re-exports, cycles, and dynamic imports.

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Default function export identity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve default function bindings
crates/perry-hir/src/lower/module_decl.rs, crates/perry-hir/src/lower/module_decl/default_export_binding.rs
export default F resolves the declared function binding instead of always creating a synthetic "default" local. Parentheses and erased TypeScript wrappers are handled.
Mark exported function bodies
crates/perry-hir/src/lower/lower_module_fn.rs, crates/perry-hir/src/lower/module_decl/default_export_binding.rs
Completed module lowering marks matching function bodies as exported. Unit tests cover hoisted declarations, wrapper expressions, default rows, and exclusion of value aliases.
Validate runtime identity
test-files/_helpers/export_default_fn_10434/*, test-files/test_gap_10434_export_default_fn_identity.ts
Fixtures and integration tests verify identity across function forms, statics, prototypes, constructors, parameters, re-exports, cyclic imports, and dynamic imports.
Document the fix
changelog.d/10548-export-default-fn-identity.md
The changelog records the corrected export mapping and post-lowering export marking.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ModuleLowering
  participant FunctionBinding
  participant ExportTable
  participant Importer
  ModuleLowering->>FunctionBinding: resolve export default F
  FunctionBinding->>ExportTable: record local F as exported default
  ModuleLowering->>FunctionBinding: mark hoisted exported body
  Importer->>ExportTable: read default binding
  ExportTable-->>Importer: return the existing function object
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary fix: making export default F use the declared function's own binding.
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Follow-up on the review comment and CI.

Changelog wording (CodeRabbit, changelog.d/10548-…md:27) — valid, fixed in 3b535d2. The fragment ran the two defects together. Rewritten to separate them: the wrapper bug (the export row named default instead of F, so importers resolved a second closure) from the hoisting-order bug (an export clause ahead of its hoisted declaration left is_exported unset, which is the only ordering in which export { F as default } also lost identity — written after the declaration it always worked). The same paragraph also described an earlier draft of the post-pass: it marks a body exported when an Export::Named row names it as its local binding and exported_functions lists its id, not every exported_functions entry. A value alias (export const g = F) names g, so F is left alone — pinned by value_alias_does_not_mark_the_aliased_body_exported. Code unchanged; changelog-only commit.

CI on 3b535d2: green except lint, and pr-gate as its fan-in. All 6 gap-suite shards, cargo-test, check, warnings, gc-stress, gc-stress matrix, e2e-scoped, gap-suite-build and gc-stress-build pass.

lint fails at exactly one step — #17 Public benchmark evidence freshness (benchmarks/ci_public_baseline_check.py: public artifact benchmark inputs changed; regenerate it). Not caused by this PR: the same step fails on main's latest test.yml run (c8cf450, job 105332505078), and it fails on a clean 7661bc0 checkout with no changes applied. This PR touches no path in public_baseline.HARNESS_PATHS.

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Landed via merge train #10578 (v0.5.1593). All source commits preserve authorship; merged main matches the validated train exactly.

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