JSC: detect AVX on Darwin instead of assuming it (fixes SIGILL on pre-AVX Macs)

[WolfgangFahl]

Problem

MacroAssemblerX86_64::collectCPUFeatures() sets s_avxCheckState = CPUIDCheckState::Set unconditionally on Darwin. That is true for every Mac Apple shipped after 2011, but not for Westmere Mac Pros (5,1) running modern macOS via OpenCore — those CPUs have SSE4.2 + POPCNT and no AVX.

The result is that JSC emits AVX instructions on a CPU that cannot execute them. Any JIT tier crashes with SIGILL. Confirmed under lldb: the faulting instructions are vmovq %r11, %xmm0 / vpinsrq, i.e. the AVX branch of the move128ToVector fallback — reached only because the detection lied. The SSE fallbacks behind supportsAVX() are already present and complete; nothing else was missing.

Downstream this makes Bun (and everything built on it, e.g. Claude Code) unrunnable on these machines unless the JIT is disabled entirely with BUN_JSC_useJIT=0 — which in turn removes SharedArrayBuffer and breaks Atomics.wait-based synchronous sleep. Related: oven-sh/bun#34207, where the assumption was that SSE fallbacks are missing. They are not; only the feature detection is wrong.

Fix

Query the OS, the same way the function already queries hw.optional.bmi1 and hw.optional.avx2_0 a few lines below:

uint32_t avxVal = 0;
size_t avxValSize = sizeof(avxVal);
int avxRc = sysctlbyname("hw.optional.avx1_0", &avxVal, &avxValSize, nullptr, 0);
s_avxCheckState = (avxRc >= 0 && avxVal) ? CPUIDCheckState::Set : CPUIDCheckState::Clear;

<sys/sysctl.h> is already included. On any AVX-capable Mac the sysctl returns 1, so behaviour is unchanged there — one sysctl call once per process at startup.

Testing

Built Bun (--baseline=true --webkit=local, LLVM 21) with this patch and ran it on a Mac Pro 5,1 (Xeon X5690, Westmere, no AVX, macOS 14.7.8), with the JIT fully enabled:

• bun --version → 1.4.0
• JIT-heavy loop (3e7 iterations) → correct result, no SIGILL (unpatched build crashes here)
• typeof SharedArrayBuffer → function
• Claude Code 2.1.237 bundle: --version, --help, and a full API round-trip all succeed

Unpatched builds of the same tree crash on all of the above.

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AVX probe trampolines

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Darwin AVX capability query Source/JavaScriptCore/assembler/MacroAssemblerX86_64.cpp	Darwin AVX detection queries hw.optional.avx1_0 with sysctlbyname. The cached AVX state is cleared when the query fails or reports no support.
Probe trampoline generation and selection Source/JavaScriptCore/assembler/MacroAssemblerX86_64.cpp	SSE and AVX probe trampolines are emitted on all x86_64 targets. MacroAssembler::probe() selects the AVX trampoline only when AVX is supported. Otherwise, it selects the SSE trampoline.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0e9bb

The PR makes Darwin AVX detection reflect actual CPU support, preventing unsupported AVX instructions on older Macs while preserving behavior on supported systems; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies Darwin AVX detection as the primary fix and states the affected pre-AVX Macs.
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In `@Source/JavaScriptCore/assembler/MacroAssemblerX86_64.cpp`:
- Around line 520-529: Update ctiMasmProbeTrampoline on Darwin to provide both
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[WolfgangFahl]

Closing this as a duplicate of #292, which predates it by five weeks and is the more complete fix — it also covers AVX2 detection and already has the probe trampoline in the shape this PR arrived at.

I wrote this independently before finding #292; the fact that two people converged on the same three lines is itself an argument for the change. Everything useful here has moved over: the hardware verification is posted at #292 (comment 5385259991), including the Yarr String.prototype.replace path from bun's crash telemetry running clean on a Xeon X5690 with the JIT enabled.

No objection to #292 landing as it stands. Happy to run further cases on the pre-AVX hardware if that helps the review.