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+'use strict';
+
+// https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/31808
+// function declarations currently call [[Set]] instead of [[DefineOwnProperty]]
+// in VM contexts, which violates the ECMA-262 specification:
+// https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-createglobalfunctionbinding
+
+const common = require('../common');
+const vm = require('vm');
+const assert = require('assert');
+
+const ctx = vm.createContext();
+Object.defineProperty(ctx, 'x', {
+  enumerable: true,
+  configurable: true,
+  get: common.mustNotCall('ctx.x getter must not be called'),
+  set: common.mustNotCall('ctx.x setter must not be called'),
+});
+
+vm.runInContext('function x() {}', ctx);
+assert.strictEqual(typeof ctx.x, 'function');