Cannot use 'in' operator to search for '0' in arguments_marker

[SheetJSDev]

• Version: 9.0.0
• Platform: darwin and linux

Error as stated in message.

To elicit the error, clone https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx and npm install:

$ cd /tmp
$ git clone https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx
$ cd js-xlsx
$ npm install -g npm@4.3.x
$ npm install

Relevant cut from the debug log:

1386 silly addNamed right-align@0.1.3
1387 verbose addNamed "0.1.3" is a plain semver version for right-align
1388 verbose get https://registry.npmjs.org/wordwrap not expired, no request
1389 silly cache afterAdd right-align@0.1.3
1390 verbose afterAdd /Users/sheetjs/.npm/right-align/0.1.3/package/package.json not in flight; writing
1391 verbose correctMkdir /Users/sheetjs/.npm correctMkdir not in flight; initializing
1392 silly cache afterAdd wordwrap@0.0.2
1393 verbose afterAdd /Users/sheetjs/.npm/wordwrap/0.0.2/package/package.json not in flight; writing
1394 verbose correctMkdir /Users/sheetjs/.npm correctMkdir not in flight; initializing
1395 verbose afterAdd /Users/sheetjs/.npm/wordwrap/0.0.2/package/package.json written
1396 verbose afterAdd /Users/sheetjs/.npm/right-align/0.1.3/package/package.json written
1397 verbose stack TypeError: Cannot use 'in' operator to search for '0' in arguments_marker
1397 verbose stack     at forEach (<anonymous>)
1397 verbose stack     at Entry._setProps (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/tar/lib/entry.js:165:25)
1397 verbose stack     at new Entry (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/tar/lib/entry.js:46:8)
1397 verbose stack     at Parse._startEntry (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/tar/lib/parse.js:241:11)
1397 verbose stack     at Parse._process (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/tar/lib/parse.js:131:12)
1397 verbose stack     at BlockStream.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/tar/lib/parse.js:47:8)
1397 verbose stack     at emitOne (events.js:125:13)
1397 verbose stack     at BlockStream.emit (events.js:221:7)
1397 verbose stack     at BlockStream._emitChunk (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/tar/node_modules/block-stream/block-stream.js:145:10)
1397 verbose stack     at BlockStream.write (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/tar/node_modules/block-stream/block-stream.js:45:10)

This is not triggered by any previous node version (tested against latest 8.x 7.x 6.x 5.x 4.x 0.12.x 0.10.x 0.8.x).

A quick search suggests this is possibly a v8 issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=777836

[mscdex]

General help questions should be posted to the nodejs/help issue tracker instead. This issue tracker is for reporting bugs and submitting feature requests for node core. Issues with npm or other tools that use node should be posted to the appropriate issue tracker for those tools, unless it can be proven that the issue is in fact with node core and not the tool in question.

[SheetJSDev]

If you read the proposed fix in the linked issue from chromium:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=777836#c6

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/738176

Disable --turbo-inline-array-builtins by default.

Current chrome stable has a high number of crashes due to bugs in
this feature. These bugs are already fixed but the fixes are hard
to merge back. Therefore we decided to disable the feature in stable.
This CL is intended to be merged to stable and then reverted in tot.

The comment certainly suggests this is something related to V8. The issue itself happens to manifest in npm usage, but the actual problem is within the domain of node core.

[mscdex]

See: #16704

[DanielRuf]

Is this also in Node.js 9 and in which versions?