Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1256 Here's a snippet of ObjectPatternNode::appendEntry. void appendEntry(const JSTokenLocation&, ExpressionNode* propertyExpression, DestructuringPatternNode* pattern, ExpressionNode* defaultValue, BindingType bindingType) { m_targetPatterns.append(Entry{ Identifier(), propertyExpression, false, pattern, defaultValue, bindingType }); } Here's the definition of Entry. struct Entry { const Identifier& propertyName; ExpressionNode* propertyExpression; bool wasString; DestructuringPatternNode* pattern; ExpressionNode* defaultValue; BindingType bindingType; }; The Identifier object created by "Identifier()" is in the stack. So it will get freed in the end of the appendEntry method. PoC: var {[a]: b, ...[]} = {};