From 672e8e6e25c3aa3021c8d2523c086015e336d1e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alxndrsn <alxndrsn>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:30:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] fix: handle empty null-prototyped objects

Closes #5505
---
 lib/utils.js            | 1 +
 test/unit/utils.spec.js | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/utils.js b/lib/utils.js
index 4971b8de46..f223c62a46 100644
--- a/lib/utils.js
+++ b/lib/utils.js
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ function emptyRepresentation(value, typeHint) {
   switch (typeHint) {
     case 'function':
       return '[Function]';
+    case 'null-prototype':
     case 'object':
       return '{}';
     case 'array':
diff --git a/test/unit/utils.spec.js b/test/unit/utils.spec.js
index 0e54bf394e..18b17bc41c 100644
--- a/test/unit/utils.spec.js
+++ b/test/unit/utils.spec.js
@@ -290,6 +290,13 @@ describe('lib/utils', function () {
       });
 
       describe('should represent null prototypes', function () {
+        it('Without properties', function () {
+          const foo = Object.create(null, {});
+          const expected = '{}';
+
+          expect(stringify(foo), 'to be', expected);
+        });
+
         it('With explicit names', function () {
           const foo = Object.create(null, {
             [Symbol.toStringTag]: {value: 'Foo'},

From 854a16701e6cd0c4f48873e14e674a80d7167ed1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alxndrsn <alxndrsn>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2025 13:56:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] rebuild for CLA?

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 rebuild | 0
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 rebuild

diff --git a/rebuild b/rebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2

From 0558c5be41a0b648ea916a6ebfc6172afd67edc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alxndrsn <alxndrsn>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2025 13:56:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] rebuild again to remove rebuild file

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 rebuild | 0
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 rebuild

diff --git a/rebuild b/rebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000