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Niels Lohmann
cbdc502fbf Write compact dumps of json_view without a library call per token
The default dump() (no indentation, no ensure_ascii) gets its own
writer: the same walk and output, with the write position in a local
variable (stores through char pointers would otherwise force a reload
of the buffer's members after each one), strings and number tokens of
the source copied by fixed-size moves of 32 bytes where the source has
that many bytes left (the buffer keeps 64 bytes of slack), and decoded
strings copied in runs up to the next quote, backslash, or control
character. Documents that are not edited are walked through the node
array in order, so that a frame only needs the end of its container,
and integer tokens are read from the source directly. The innermost
open container is kept in local variables, and the stack holds only
the ones around it; the stack starts in a local array of 32 and moves
to the heap only for deeper nesting (its address does not escape, so
its pointers stay in registers). Dumps of shallow documents thus
allocate only the output, whose first size includes the slack, so it
does not grow just before the end.

The long copies are out of line: otherwise, the compiler merges the
fixed-size moves into the same library call.

These techniques come from the prototype; the writer lost them when the
view was split into pull requests, which made dump() 2 to 3 times
slower.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:24 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
5876a22712 Add images of json_documents: save() and load()
An image is a document stored so that loading it needs no parsing: a
64-byte header, the nodes, the text, and the decoded strings
(little-endian; version 1).

- save() writes an edited document in its current state, in document
  order (floats that are not finite become null, as in dump()); the
  same document always gives the same bytes
- load(pointer, size) and load(const vector&) borrow the image;
  load(vector&&) keeps it without a copy. The nodes are copied (aligned,
  and editable); the hash indexes of large objects are rebuilt.
- image_check::full checks everything the parser guarantees (structure,
  bounds, UTF-8, strings of the source, number tokens and their values);
  bounds checks structure and bounds, so that reading and serializing
  stay safe; none trusts the image.

A malformed image or a failed check throws the new parse_error.116;
saving a discarded document (or images on a big-endian target) throws
the new type_error.320; images of 4 GiB or more out_of_range.416.

As images checked for bounds only can hold any bytes, the general float
conversion now checks the token's grammar (and locates the point and
the exponent itself), the exponent loop of the layout conversion takes
digits as unsigned, and the serializer validates each non-ASCII sequence
it decodes, throwing what basic_json::dump() throws for invalid UTF-8.
Parsed and edited documents are not affected.

The idea of images comes from zero-copy formats such as FlatBuffers and
YaFF, the check from FlatBuffers' Verifier; no code is taken from them.

Tests: round trips with every check (small documents, test files, large
objects, edited documents with every kind of edit), ownership, all
errors, one corruption per rejection branch of the check, and 12,000
seeded random corruptions, which must be rejected or read safely. The
fuzzer json_view_image_fuzzer uses each input as an image and as a JSON
text.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:20 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
3c5c000408 Address the clang-tidy findings of the structural edit tests
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:18 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
1e212bc50c Benchmark editing documents with json_view, yyjson, Boost.JSON, and json
bench_edit.cpp joins the comparison: parse, apply the same logical edits
with each library's own API (a handful at fixed places, or one in every
record), and serialize; all outputs must describe the same value.
compare.py builds and runs it with the other two programs.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:17 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
5d25f863c0 Add insert() and erase() to editable documents
- insert(array, index, value): insert before an element (index <= size)
- erase(object, key): remove all members with the key; returns their
  number
- erase(array, index): remove an element
- erase(json_pointer): remove the member or element a pointer names

The errors are those of basic_json (type_error.307/309,
out_of_range.401/403/405). A view of an erased value keeps its last value,
and views of other values keep referring to them when elements move.

Tests: the differential test now also inserts and erases members and
elements, directly and through JSON pointers; plus the errors, views
across inserts and erasures, duplicate keys, and large objects.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:16 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
266c2249fe Cover the edit storage in tests
Test edits of an empty document and assignments through a view of a
value that is no longer part of the document; copy the entries of a
block through deref() (one path for links and values); mark the
4 GiB limit and the returns of find_parent() that no document reaches.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:15 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
baf4ccfda8 Address the clang-tidy findings of the editable documents
Pick the overloads of encode() with a first_true trait instead of
nested conditionals, name the pointer type in the copies of links,
mark the owning pointers of the edit storage, and compare doubles
by their bits in the tests.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:11 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
76897a9b9b Add editable documents with set() and push_back()
basic_json_document<BasicJsonType, true> (json_editable_document,
ordered_json_editable_document) can be edited:

- set(view, value): replace a value
- set(object, key, value): assign a member, or add it (a null becomes an
  object); with duplicate keys, the first is assigned and the others go
- set(array, index, value): assign an element
- set(json_pointer, value): the member, element, or ("-", or the size of
  the array) the end of an array a pointer names
- push_back(array, value): append (a null becomes an array)

Values are views (of any document, copied), BasicJsonType values, and
everything BasicJsonType can be constructed from. The source text is never
written, and the parsed index never moves: new values and element
sequences go to storage owned by the document (edit_storage.hpp), so views
stay valid, and a view keeps referring to its value (after an assignment,
it sees the new one). Read-only documents are unchanged; editing one does
not compile.

Errors are those of basic_json where the operation corresponds
(type_error.305/308, out_of_range.401/403/405, parse_error.106/109); a view
of another document is invalid_iterator.202. Strings are checked for UTF-8
when they enter the document, with the type_error.316 that
basic_json::dump() throws for the same string, so that a document only
holds valid UTF-8. Binary values cannot be stored (the new
type_error.319), and edits of 4 GiB or more end with out_of_range.416.
Views of editable and read-only documents compare with each other.

Tests (unit-json_view_edit.cpp): random assignments, member and element
changes, copies within and between documents, and pushes, applied to an
ordered_json_editable_document and to the ordered_json value; after every
edit both must serialize (also indented and with ensure_ascii),
materialize, compare, and read back the same. Further: the errors, strings
that stay valid while the edit arena grows, numbers (NaN, infinities,
extremes; number_format::source), nulls that become containers, the root
replaced, duplicate keys, values of other documents, large objects, and
documents reused with read().

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:11 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
0d59ae5d49 Address the clang-tidy findings of the object index tests
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:08 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
61b104606d Index the large objects of json_view
Lookups in objects are linear, as for ordered_json. Objects with 128
members or more now get a hash table after parsing (open addressing; the
first of duplicate keys is kept, as for the linear search), so that
operator[], at(), find(), contains(), count(), value(), and JSON pointers
take constant time on average in them; the idea of switching to a hash
table for large objects is Boost.JSON's. The parser notes such objects when
it closes them (out of line, so that the parse loop only has a call for
it), and the object node keeps the number of its table.

Looking up each key of an object with 10,000 members: 59.8 ms -> 0.16 ms.
Parsing (json_document::parse, best of 7, separate processes): most files
within 1%; canada +5%, mesh.pretty +3%, citm +3%.

Tests: objects with 127, 128, 129, and 10,000 members (escaped, empty,
and duplicate keys, missing keys, comparisons), nested large objects, and
documents reused with read().

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:07 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
57b5d56522 Address the clang-tidy findings of the SIMD scan
Hold the UTF-8 lookup tables in std::array, compute the length of a
sequence without nested conditionals, and use std::array in the tests.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:06 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
ebfbbf29cb Scan the strings of json_view with NEON and SSE2
Long runs of string bytes are scanned 16 at a time with NEON (AArch64, with
GCC and Clang) and SSE2 (x86-64): both belong to the baseline instruction
sets. A signed compare with 0x20 finds control characters and non-ASCII
bytes at once. Keys keep 16 table checks before the vector loop (their
lengths repeat from record to record, so the branches predict well);
string values have 8, as their lengths vary more.

Non-ASCII text is validated 16 bytes at a time with the "lookup4" check of
simdjson (J. Keiser and D. Lemire, "Validating UTF-8 In Less Than One
Instruction Per Byte", 2021): with NEON, and on x86-64 with SSSE3 if
JSON_VIEW_USE_SSSE3 is defined (SSSE3 is not part of x86-64, and the code
must not depend on the flags of a translation unit). JSON_VIEW_NO_SIMD
selects the portable code. The vector code sits in
detail/view/simd.hpp; the same input is accepted either way.

json_document::parse, best of 7 runs in separate processes (M1 Max):
poet.json (CJK text) -72%, random.json -25%, twitter.json -22%,
gsoc-2018.json -20%, semanticscholar -19%, github_events -11%,
apache_builds -9.5%, canada/citm -5/-6%; lottie +4%, tree-pretty +2.5%.

Tests: every two-byte sequence and three- and four-byte sequences with
continuation bytes at the edges of their ranges, at every offset around
the vector blocks of keys and values, cut short, and long runs of text
with a damaged byte, against json::accept and json::parse. CMake builds
the parser tests again with JSON_VIEW_NO_SIMD, and on x86-64 with
JSON_VIEW_USE_SSSE3 and -mssse3; the macros are documented.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:06 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
a491cc7663 Run the json_view comparison on GitHub runners on demand
A workflow runs compare.py with pinned downloads on GitHub-hosted
Ubuntu runners and shows the results as the job summary and as an
artifact: started by hand (workflow_dispatch: x86-64 or AArch64, GCC or
Clang), or when a pull request gets the label "benchmark" (both
architectures, GCC). The label trigger gives numbers before the
workflow is on the default branch, which workflow_dispatch needs.
Shared runners are noisy, so the numbers show where json_view stands on
another architecture; published numbers still need a quiet machine.

compare.py takes the CPU name from lscpu where /proc/cpuinfo has none
(AArch64 Linux), and falls back to the architecture. Checked in Linux
containers (AArch64, Clang 15 and GCC 9, offline with the pinned
archives).

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:05 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
6536c1b869 Pin the downloads of the json_view comparison
compare.py --download now checks the SHA-256 of the yyjson 0.13.0,
simdjson 4.6.11, and Boost 1.92.0 archives. It unpacks each archive
once (Boost's directory is boost_1_92_0) and, where Python supports it,
with the 'data' filter.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:04 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
038f448dec Compare json_view with yyjson, simdjson, and Boost.JSON
tests/benchmarks/json_view/ holds the comparison with other libraries,
which is not built by CMake or run by CI:

- bench_view.cpp: parse, traverse, select, and dump of twitter,
  citm_catalog, canada, jeopardy, a single tweet, and a JSON-RPC request,
  with json_view, yyjson, simdjson (DOM and On-Demand), Boost.JSON, and
  json::parse; all engines must agree on every document before anything
  is timed, and run interleaved in every round
- bench_corpus.cpp: parse, traverse, and dump of any list of files
- compare.py: builds both against include/ with the libraries of the
  system (or pinned downloads), runs them, and writes the results with
  what is needed to reproduce them (date, commit, CPU, OS, compiler,
  flags, library versions) to results/<date>-<host>.md and .csv; only the
  Python 3 standard library is used
- README.md: how to run it, what is measured, and which features the
  engines have, so the numbers can be read correctly

Boost.JSON is optional (JSON_VIEW_BENCH_BOOST).

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:03 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
bf6b5b4719 Convert the floats of json_view from the digit layout
The parser records where the integer digits, the fraction digits, and the
exponent of a float token are. For doubles with at most 19 digits, the
value is now read from that layout: the digits eight at a time, without
scanning the token, and rounded with Clinger's fast path where both
operands are exact, else with the Eisel-Lemire algorithm (which needs no
fallback for up to 19 digits). Both round correctly, so the values are
those of parse(); other tokens and types keep the library's conversion.

get<double>(), materialize(), dump(), and comparisons use it. Traversing
canada.json (111,000 floats, every number converted): 0.53 -> 0.86 GB/s.

Tests add tokens around the limits (19 and 20 digits, 2^53, 10^22) to the
bit-for-bit comparison with parse().

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:02 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
20fd4c6a8b Address the clang-tidy findings of the comparisons
Separate the comparison of discarded values from the other types, so
that the conditional chain has no repeated branch bodies, and mark
the deliberate comparisons of views with empty containers in the
tests.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:03:01 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
401af52511 Add comparisons to json_view
basic_json_view gains operator== and operator!= with other views and with
basic_json values. Two views are equal if the values parse() would
produce for them are equal by basic_json's operator==: numbers compare by
value across their types, and objects by their members, with duplicate
keys resolved as parse() resolves them (the last value, at the position of
the first key). Objects are compared in member order if the object type
keeps an order (ordered_json), by key otherwise, as basic_json does.
Discarded views compare as discarded basic_json values do, which follows
JSON_USE_LEGACY_DISCARDED_VALUE_COMPARISON. Nothing is materialized except
single numbers, and the walk is iterative.

Tests compare the results for pairs of 1,200 generated documents (also
written differently: sorted keys, canonical numbers) with those of
basic_json, for json and ordered_json, plus numbers, duplicate keys,
member order, discarded values, and 100,000 levels of nesting.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:02:59 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
1318023103 Address the clang-tidy findings of dump()
The output buffer initializes its members in the initializer list, and the
escaping has no nested conditional operators; the test marks a fixed seed.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:02:57 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
1ef0582ed7 Add dump() to json_view
basic_json_view::dump(indent, indent_char, ensure_ascii, number_format)
writes the text of a value as ordered_json::parse(text).dump() writes it
for the same arguments: members in document order (all of them, should a
key occur more than once), strings escaped by the same rules and with the
library's scanning kernels, floats with the library's conversion, and
integers copied from the source, where they are canonical except "-0".
With number_format::source, numbers are copied as they appear in the
source ("1.50", "1E2", "-0", all digits of long integers). operator<<
takes the indentation from the stream width, as for basic_json.

The writer (detail/view/serializer.hpp) writes through a raw pointer into
a string sized from the source extent of the value, and walks the index
iteratively, so the nesting depth is limited by memory only.

Tests compare the output of 2,000 generated documents with
ordered_json::dump() for several indentations and ensure_ascii, strings
with every kind of escape, numbers (5,000 random doubles, float as
number_float_t), duplicate keys, 100,000 levels of nesting, and streams.
ViewDump joins the benchmarks.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:02:56 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
bc36fd323b Address the clang-tidy findings of values and JSON pointers
get_string() and number_token() return braced lists; the test compares
floats by their bit patterns instead of with memcmp, uses std::any_of, and
marks a fixed seed, a default member initializer (needed by GCC's
-Weffc++), and a string search.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:02:54 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
85f414ae7a Add values and JSON pointers to json_view
basic_json_view gains get<T>(), get_to(), value() with keys and JSON
pointers, and operator[], at(), and contains() with JSON pointers, plus
two functions basic_json has no counterpart for:

- get_string(): the string without a copy (a string_view into the source,
  or into the decoded strings for strings with escapes)
- number_token(): the text of a number as it appears in the source

get<T>() converts arithmetic types, strings (also string_view_t),
std::nullptr_t, std::vector, maps with string keys, and views directly;
floats are converted from the digit layout recorded by the parser with the
library's conversion chain, so the values are bit-identical to parse().
Other types, including user types with from_json(), go through
materialize().

The exceptions are those of basic_json, message included. Where const
basic_json has undefined behavior (a missing key or an index out of range
with operator[] and a JSON pointer), the result is a discarded view;
value() returns the default wherever basic_json catches out_of_range, and
contains() never throws. Array indices of JSON pointers follow
json_pointer's rules (parse_error.106/109, out_of_range.404/410).

Tests compare the conversions of 2,000 generated documents, 20,000 float
tokens (double and float, bit for bit), and every JSON pointer of 1,000
documents with basic_json, and the exceptions for malformed pointers.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:02:52 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
daad8ea9b5 Address the clang-tidy findings of element access and iteration
Marks the default initializer of the item's index string (needed by GCC's
-Weffc++) and, in the test, an escaped literal and a comparison of find()
with end(), which is what the test is about.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:02:51 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
f80a1a17a9 Add element access, lookup, and iteration to json_view
basic_json_view gains the read-only access functions of basic_json:
operator[] and at() with keys and indices, front(), back(), find(),
contains(), count(), begin()/end(), items() (with structured bindings from
C++17 on), and type_name(). They throw the exceptions (ids and messages)
that the const functions of basic_json throw; where basic_json has
undefined behavior (operator[] with a missing key or an index out of
range, front()/back() of an empty container), the view returns a
discarded view or throws invalid_iterator.214.

Objects are iterated in document order, and all members are visited. With
duplicate keys, lookups find the first member, so that a lookup can stop
at the first match; parse() keeps the last value. Keys of up to 16 bytes
are compared with two overlapping loads instead of memcmp, and most keys
are rejected by their length alone, from the index.

The iterators and items live in detail/view/iterator.hpp, the lookups in
detail/view/lookup.hpp. Tests compare every element and member of 2,000
generated documents with ordered_json, keys of every length around the
load sizes, the exceptions against const basic_json, and the iterators.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:02:49 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
207fc01576 Mark the code of json_view that tests cannot reach
The 4 GiB limit and the fallback for an input that parse() accepts but
the view rejects (a bug) are excluded from the coverage; shrink_to_fit()
of an empty document is tested.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:02:46 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
aa1a0c7561 Address the clang-tidy findings of json_document and json_view
- the input dispatch takes byte ranges by const reference and reads the
  size once (which also settles a finding of the static analyzer); input
  adapters are taken by value
- the classification of inputs keeps its nested conditional operators, a
  constant expression of C++11 (NOLINT)
- the test's C arrays, fixed seed, and escaped literals are marked, as in
  the other tests

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:02:45 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
c8ee344008 Benchmark json_document
benchmarks_view.cpp adds ViewParse, ViewRead (a reused document),
ViewParseIndented, ViewAccept, and ViewMaterialize on the files of
ParseString, so that each row can be read against the json::parse row of
the same file; benchmarks.cpp gains Accept (json::accept) as the
counterpart of ViewAccept. The view benchmarks are built only if the
header directory has json_view.hpp, so that older versions can still be
benchmarked.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:02:44 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
7db6b3340d Add a fuzzer for json_document
fuzzer-parse_json_view.cpp checks for every input that
json_document::accept agrees with json::accept, that an accepted input
materializes to the value json::parse returns, and that a rejected input
makes both throw the same exception with the same message. It is built
like the other fuzzers (tests/Makefile, and the root Makefile's
fuzz_testing_json_view target, which starts from the JSON test corpus) and
listed in tests/fuzzing.md.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 09:54:08 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
f5f8b19364 Export json_document and json_view from the C++20 module
The nlohmann.json module includes json_view.hpp in its global module
fragment and exports basic_json_document, basic_json_view, and the four
aliases next to basic_json, json, and ordered_json. features/modules.md
lists them, and tests/module_cpp20 parses a document, so that a missing
export fails the ci_module_cpp20 job.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 09:54:07 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
7b30f0acb2 Test json_document and json_view
unit-json_view.cpp: type queries, size, and empty against basic_json;
materialize() against parse() (json and ordered_json, generated documents,
duplicate keys, 100,000 levels of nesting, parent pointers with
JSON_DIAGNOSTICS); parse errors and their messages equal to parse() for
malformed inputs and all option combinations; NUL and BOM; borrowed and
owned inputs (strings, C strings, literals, vectors, string_view, streams,
wide strings, parse_copy, and iterator ranges over pointers, vectors,
strings, and lists); reuse with read(); moves; shrink_to_fit() of the index
and of the decoded strings; source offsets.

unit-json_view_macros.cpp includes the header without
JSON_TEST_KEEP_MACROS, as users do: the view must not depend on the macros
json.hpp undefines, and must not leak its own.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 09:54:05 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
27468fa77e Test the C++11 stand-in for std::string_view of json_view
Six members of string_ref (length, begin, end, operator[], operator!=,
and operator<<) were not reached before C++17, where string_ref is
std::string_view.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 09:53:48 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
b5da87a5e3 Classify a NUL inside a string of json_view as a control character
json::parse ends the input at a NUL only between values (where it does
at all); inside a string, a NUL is a control character that must be
escaped. The view reported it as a missing closing quote. (Only the
error code differed: the exception comes from the library parser.)

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 04:49:37 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
6d479d13ce Test the overflow check of json_view at the largest double
Numbers of more than 19 digits at the boundary of the largest double
are decided by the locale-aware fallback of the overflow check.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 03:49:32 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
ea5a1caf28 Address the clang-tidy findings of the view's parser
- tables as std::array; the frames of the first 64 levels stay a C array
  (not initialized on purpose, NOLINT)
- \u escapes are decoded with the library's hex_codepoint() instead of a
  second table
- the parse failure is private, with an accessor; the special member
  functions of the builder are all declared
- no nested conditional operators; explicit parentheses; a repeated
  branch body merged; auto for casts
- the test's C arrays, fixed seed, and escaped literals are marked, as in
  the other tests

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 03:49:31 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
a14ac39bdd Add the one-pass parser of json_view (internal)
The builder parses JSON text in one pass into the node index: strings and
numbers stay in the source (escaped strings are decoded into an arena),
integers are converted while their digits are in cache, and floats keep
their digit layout for a later conversion. It accepts exactly what
json::parse accepts, for every combination of comments and trailing commas,
with and without a terminating NUL, and with JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING.

Parse state lives in a local cursor whose address never escapes, so that it
stays in registers; out-of-line helpers (errors, regrowth, escapes,
comments) are members of the builder and get the positions they need. The
value dispatch is expanded once for array elements and once for member
values. Literals are compared with memcmp and words read in a fixed byte
order, so nothing depends on the platform's byte order. Error messages come
with the public classes.

Tests (unit-json_view_builder.cpp): accept/reject and values against
json::parse for handwritten, generated, and damaged documents under all
option combinations, from std::string and from exact-size buffers (no read
past the input under AddressSanitizer), deep nesting up to 100,000 levels,
NUL/BOM/whitespace cases, and the test-suite files.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 03:49:30 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
a08f5501a7 Decode \u escapes with a table in the lexer
get_codepoint() read the four hex digits of a \u escape with four calls
to get(), each classified by a chain of range comparisons. For contiguous
input, get_codepoint_bulk() now decodes them with one lookup per byte
(hex_codepoint() in string_scan.hpp, after yyjson's read_hex_u16): a
256-entry table maps a byte to its value, or 0xFF for anything else, and
an invalid digit shows in the OR of the four values. It then skips the
four bytes and updates the position counters as four get() calls would.
If a digit is invalid or fewer than four bytes are left, it changes
nothing and the existing loop runs, so errors are reported with the same
message and position as before.

json::parse, best of 5 runs in separate processes (M1 Max): the escaped
twitter.json (every non-ASCII character as \u) -13.6%, all other files
within 0.3%.

Tests compare the contiguous and the streaming path (value or exception
message) for valid escapes, surrogate pairs, truncated and invalid digits
at every position, and 3,000 seeded random escapes.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 03:49:27 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
31789f51cf Find the stop byte of a string run without a byte loop
find_string_special() and find_ascii_copyable_run() test eight bytes at a
time, but located the stopping byte inside a word with a byte loop. The
lowest flagged byte of the SWAR tests is always a true hit (the borrows of
the subtractions can only flag bytes above one), so its index is now the
trailing-zero count of the mask; words are read in little-endian order on
every platform, so this does not depend on the byte order.
scalar_string_bulk_run() validates a run of multi-byte UTF-8 sequences one
after another instead of searching for the next special byte in between,
which helps text in non-Latin scripts.

The kernels serve the lexer's contiguous fast path, the serializer, and the
binary formats. New tests compare all three with byte-by-byte reference
scans on 100,000 generated buffers at three alignments; the portable
fallback of count_trailing_zeros() was checked against the builtin.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 03:49:26 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
f295970fb6 Convert floats with Eisel-Lemire when std::from_chars is unavailable
Float tokens that Clinger's fast path cannot convert (e.g. the 17-digit
coordinates of canada.json) went to strtod unless std::from_chars was
available. It is not used in C++11/14, and not with libc++, which does not
define __cpp_lib_to_chars. The Eisel-Lemire algorithm (after fast_float's
compute_float) now converts them with integer arithmetic, correctly rounded
for any token with at most 19 significant digits. Longer tokens are
truncated; the result is used if w and w + 1 round alike, else strtod
decides as before. Overflow still yields infinity (out_of_range.406).

The table of powers of five (fast_float's) lives in pow5_table.hpp; a unit
test recomputes every entry with big-integer arithmetic. Further tests:
known values generated with Python (whose float() is correctly rounded),
200,000 round trips through to_chars, and the 128-bit multiplication and
leading-zero count against big-integer references (both with and without a
128-bit type). Checked against strtod on 6.5 million tokens, among them
60,000 exact halfway cases: no difference.

json::parse on canada.json: -8.6% (C++11), -7.6% (C++17, Apple clang);
other files unchanged. Compile time of a TU including json.hpp: +0.7%.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 03:49:25 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
633de8e44b Fix CI: clang-tidy and GCC -Wnoexcept in the locale test (#5613)
#5597 was merged before all of its CI jobs had run, and two of them fail
on develop now, and so on every pull request:

- ci_clang_tidy: cert-err33-c for the two std::setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C")
  calls whose result was discarded. Check the result, like the other
  resets in the file.
- ci_test_standards_gcc (20) with GCC 16: -Wnoexcept for the two parser
  callbacks, which cannot throw but were not declared noexcept.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-28 22:20:43 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
fc03b9912e Look up the locale decimal point at conversion time, not lexer construction (#5597)
* Look up the locale decimal point at conversion time, not lexer construction

The lexer read localeconv()->decimal_point once in its constructor and wrote
that character into token_buffer in place of '.'. The strtod fallback then
used the locale current at conversion time, so an LC_NUMERIC change in
between (parser callback, SAX handler, another thread) truncated the value
in release builds and fired the endptr assertion in debug builds.

token_buffer now always holds '.'. Only the strtof/strtod/strtold fallback
depends on the locale: it looks up the decimal point right before the call,
restores '.' afterwards, and repeats the conversion if the locale changed in
between. As a side effect, std::from_chars and Clinger's fast path now also
apply under locales whose decimal point is not '.'.

Fixes #5198

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Stop the strtod retry loop when the decimal point is unchanged

convert_float_locale_aware() repeated the conversion until strtod
consumed the whole token, assuming an early stop can only mean a locale
change. Under a locale whose decimal point is not a single character
(e.g. the two-byte U+066B of ar_EG.UTF-8, ar_SA.UTF-8, or fa_IR.UTF-8,
all available on macOS), the in-place substitution can never succeed,
so parsing any float that reaches the strtod fallback (for example
3.14159265358979323846 at C++11) hung forever. Before this branch, the
same input was truncated.

Retry only if the decimal point changed since the previous attempt;
otherwise keep the value strtod parsed so far, as before. Add a test
that parses such numbers under a multi-byte decimal point locale; it
hangs without this change.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Fix -Weffc++ errors in the #5198 locale test

GCC's -Weffc++ (an error in ci_test_gcc and ci_test_standards_gcc)
rejected LocaleSwitchingSax: it has a pointer data member but does not
declare its copy operations, and its vectors are not initialized in the
member initializer list. Store the locale name as a std::string and give
the vectors brace initializers, like SaxEventLogger in
unit-deserialization.cpp.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-28 17:56:11 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
9e1a09eec0 Name the key type when rejecting non-string CBOR/MessagePack map keys (#5594)
* Name the key type when rejecting non-string CBOR/MessagePack map keys

CBOR and MessagePack allow map keys of any type, but JSON object keys
are always strings, so such maps are rejected. The error so far was the
one for a malformed string (e.g. "expected length specification
(0xA0-0xBF, 0xD9-0xDB); last byte: 0xC0" for a nil key), which does not
tell the user what went wrong. Report the type of the key instead:

  syntax error while parsing MessagePack object key: only string keys
  are supported, but found nil; last byte: 0xC0

The exception id (parse_error.113) and type are unchanged. Malformed
string keys and a missing key keep their previous messages. Document
the restriction on the CBOR and MessagePack pages.

Refs #2766, #3381

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Point the MessagePack key note to the spec's profile section

The note linked to "Serialization: type to format conversion", which says nothing about key types. Restricting map keys to strings is only mentioned in the "Profile" section (under "Future discussion") as an example of a JSON-compatible profile, so link there and describe it as such instead of as a permission.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-28 17:51:07 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
373005f7ac Fix MSVC: avoid reserving by faked size in MessagePack size tests (#5604)
The "Size above uint32" tests for arrays and objects fake a container
size of 2^32 and expect to_msgpack() to throw out_of_range.412. But
to_msgpack(j) first reserves binary_reserve_hint(j) bytes, which is
size + 1 for arrays and 2 * size + 1 for objects, i.e. 4 or 8 GiB.
Linux and macOS overcommit, so the reservation succeeds; on Windows it
throws std::bad_alloc before the size check is reached (seen with
msvc-vs2026 Debug x64 on the object test).

Write into a caller-owned vector instead, so nothing is reserved.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-27 20:57:16 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
509c07041f Fix CI: clang-tidy and clang/libstdc++ 10 in the MessagePack size tests (#5599)
The tests added by #5515 fail two ways on develop:

- clang-tidy reports the size() overrides of huge_string and huge_binary
  (readability-convert-member-functions-to-static) and the non-const
  test value (misc-const-correctness); mark them like the #5584 types
- clang with libstdc++ 10 cannot compile the file for C++17: the
  std::filesystem::path conversion considered for huge_string, a class
  derived from std::string, is ambiguous. Guard it with
  JSON_TEST_BEYOND_UINT32_STRING, which #5584 introduced for the same
  reason, and define that macro before both test blocks.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-27 17:50:19 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
1e101ecac1 Add BON8 support (#2998)
* Add BON8 support

Add to_bon8/from_bon8 and input_format_t::bon8 for BON8, a binary format
that uses the byte values that cannot begin a UTF-8 character as type
markers, so strings need no length prefix. It is the most compact of the
supported binary formats on the benchmark files.

The reader is non-recursive like the other binary readers. A string ends
at the first byte that cannot continue it, so the reader hands the one or
two bytes it reads past a string back to the value that follows. The
writer produces the canonical representation of the specification, except
for NFC normalization; its output is identical to that of the reference
implementation (HikoGUI) on all files of the test data.

The round-trip tests need the .bon8 files of json_test_data 3.2.0.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Address review comments

- Reuse detail::validate_one_utf8 to check strings in to_bon8; the error
  now names the first byte of the invalid sequence.
- Document that to_bon8 leaves bytes in the output adapter on an
  exception, and that string_open is only an output of write_bon8_marker.
- Explain why the pushback buffer of the BON8 reader cannot overflow.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Select the BON8 float prefix by type

get_bon8_float_prefix only depends on the type of its argument, so make
the type a template parameter instead of passing an unused value.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Rename a test variable that Flawfinder mistakes for read()

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Fix the BON8 CI failures

- compare the float in write_bon8_float with number_float_t constants,
  so GCC does not warn about a float-to-double conversion
- mark check_bon8_utf8's context as used when exceptions are disabled
- choose the compact float prefix in a helper rather than with nested
  conditional operators (clang-tidy)
- use auto for the cast in the BON8 integer reader (clang-tidy)
- write the int32 minimum test values as long long literals (MSVC C4146)

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Amalgamate

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Read BON8 strings in bulk from contiguous input

- copy the valid UTF-8 of a string in one step when the input is
  contiguous (twitter.json is read in 1.68 instead of 2.52 ms,
  jeopardy.json in 196 instead of 297 ms, close to CBOR and MessagePack)
- share the new valid_utf8_prefix() with the writer's UTF-8 check, which
  now skips ASCII 8 bytes at a time
- let the fuzzer check that contiguous and stream input give the same
  value or error, and test both paths in the unit tests
- clarify that a second 0xFF after a string is an empty string

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Link the BON8 functions from the other binary format pages

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Name the bulk scan flag after the input, not BON8

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Read BSON keys in bulk from contiguous input

BSON keys (and array indices) are C-style strings, which were read byte
by byte. For contiguous input they are now read up to their \x00-byte in
one step, using the same bulk_scan flag as BON8 strings: twitter.json is
read in 1.46 instead of 2.01 ms, citm_catalog.json in 2.93 instead of
3.33 ms, jeopardy.json in 182 instead of 207 ms. canada.json, whose keys
are almost all one-digit array indices, takes 2 % longer.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Fix the BON8 CI failures of the bulk-read tests

- skip the contiguous-versus-stream tests of BON8 strings and BSON keys
  when exceptions are disabled: they catch the parse errors of invalid
  input, and without exceptions the library aborts instead
- use static_cast for the int64 test value (google-readability-casting)

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Move the explicit basic_json instantiation into its own test file

Linking test-regression3_cpp20 with clang and MinGW failed with
"relocation truncated to fit: IMAGE_REL_AMD64_REL32 against `.rdata'",
as test-regression2 did before #5511. The explicit instantiation of
basic_json<> for #4825 compiles every member function, including the
BON8 reader and writer, into that object, and it was already close to
the limit (2,226,104 bytes on develop, 2,234,960 with BON8; clang -O1,
C++20).

Give the instantiation a file of its own: unit-regression3 is now
1,594,736 bytes and unit-explicit_instantiation 1,095,064. The new file
mentions JSON_HAS_CPP_17 and JSON_HAS_CPP_20 so it keeps being built
for the C++17 standard the regression was about.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Convert the bytes of the BON8 test strings explicitly

The str() helper constructed a std::string from a byte range, which
converts each unsigned char implicitly; -fsanitize=integer reports that
for bytes of 0x80 and above (ci_test_clang_sanitizer).

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-27 16:56:21 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
f682cd2ef1 Skip the #5515 MessagePack size tests on 32-bit platforms (#5590)
The tests fake a container size of UINT32_MAX + 1, which does not fit
into a 32-bit std::size_t: MSVC rejects the truncation (C4305/C4309
with /WX), and clang-cl wraps the size to 0 so nothing throws. Guard
them with SIZE_MAX > UINT32_MAX like the tests from #5584.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-27 15:58:59 +02:00
Kartikey Negi
6bd106893a Fix CBOR tag handling in cbor_tag_handler_t::store for non-binary items (#5559)
When using cbor_tag_handler_t::store, tags 0xD8-0xDB previously assumed
that the tagged item was a byte string, unconditionally attempting to
parse binary data and failing on valid CBOR documents containing tags
applied to integers, strings, arrays, or objects (such as self-describe
tag 55799).

Check whether the tagged data item is a byte string (0x40-0x5B or 0x5F).
If it is a byte string, store the subtype on the binary value as before.
Otherwise, iteratively process the tagged value in the driver loop using
item_read so that chained tags do not consume native stack space.

Part of #5316.

Signed-off-by: ReturnKartikey <kartikeynegi2000.work@gmail.com>
2026-09-27 14:28:55 +02:00
bucketbase26
98e00d22e5 Cut test suite runtime in binary roundtrips and integer sweeps (#5519)
* Cut test suite runtime in binary roundtrips and integer sweeps

The Linux CI jobs pass --no-skip, so skip() does not help there.
Parse each corpus file once in the binary roundtrip loops instead of
four times. Sample the 16-bit integer ranges with stride 7 (still hits
every low byte) and always keep the endpoints.

Also drop the 5M-node parse test to 500k, which still covers the
non-recursive destructor, and move jeopardy.json into its own skipped
test so the cheaper binary-format size checks actually run.

See #5418.

Signed-off-by: ayush-singh-0601 <singhayush062006@gmail.com>

* Drop useless int32_t casts in the sampled integer loops

ci_test_gcc compiles with -Werror=useless-cast. On that compiler
int32_t is int, so static_cast<int32_t> of the loop bound is an
error. The bounds are already int, and the sampled values do not
change.

Signed-off-by: ayush-singh-0601 <singhayush062006@gmail.com>

* Revert unit-binary_formats.cpp to develop and fix comment

Revert tests/src/unit-binary_formats.cpp to its develop state.
The test-case split made valgrind jobs slower instead of faster,
because the cheaper corpus files (canada/twitter/citm/sample)
now ran under valgrind where they never did before.

Fix the next_integer_sample comment: the function has no 'first'
parameter, so describe what the function actually does.

Signed-off-by: ayush-singh-0601 <singhayush062006@gmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: ayush-singh-0601 <singhayush062006@gmail.com>
2026-09-27 14:28:38 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
f7972970a4 Throw instead of writing MessagePack lengths beyond UINT32_MAX (#5584)
* Throw instead of writing MessagePack lengths beyond UINT32_MAX

MessagePack stores the length of a string, binary value, array, or
object in at most 32 bits. For a larger value, to_msgpack wrote no length
at all, so the output could not be read back. It now throws
out_of_range.412, which BSON already uses for its 32-bit length fields.

The check lives in one function, so each length is written by an
if/else chain that ends in a plain else, without a condition that can
never be false. It is tested with string and binary types that report a
size beyond UINT32_MAX without allocating it, like the BSON tests do.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Fix the CI failures of the MessagePack length check

- mark to_msgpack_length's value as used when exceptions are disabled
  (-Wunused-parameter, misc-unused-parameters)
- put "Exception safety" before "Exceptions" in to_msgpack.md, as the
  documentation style check requires
- create the test's string value from its type: constructing it from a
  beyond_uint32_string_t considers the std::filesystem::path conversion,
  which libstdc++ 10 reports as ambiguous for a class derived from
  std::string (clang 13)

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Skip the MessagePack string length test for clang with libstdc++ 10

C++17 builds consider the std::filesystem::path conversion for the
string type, and with clang and libstdc++ 10 that conversion is
ambiguous for a class derived from std::string. Creating the value from
its type did not avoid it, since any basic_json with that string type
instantiates the check. The binary and ext cases are still tested there.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Keep the MessagePack string test type and its alias in one block

astyle indented the alias oddly when it had an #ifdef of its own after
the binary alias; declare it right after the string type, in the same
block.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-27 14:28:16 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
6178982b8d Compare unordered objects by key below the nesting bound (#5582)
* Compare unordered objects by key below the nesting bound

Values nested deeper than the nesting bound are compared without the
call stack, walking both objects entry by entry. Two equal objects of a
type that enumerates its entries in no fixed order - std::unordered_map,
say - can be walked in different orders, so they compared unequal, and
a deep copy compared unequal to its original. std::unordered_map's own
operator== does not depend on the order, which is what applies above the
bound.

Where the keys differ, equality now finds the entry by its key instead.
An ordering, and ordered_map, whose operator== compares its entries in
sequence, still decide by the key.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Test unordered object equality without std::unordered_map

basic_json<std::unordered_map> instantiates std::pair<const string,
basic_json> while basic_json is still incomplete. The standard does not
require std::unordered_map to support that, and libstdc++ 6 to 9 as well
as the EDG front ends of icpc and nvc++ reject it, which broke the build
of unit-comparison on those CI jobs.

The test now uses an object type derived from std::map (which, as the
default object type, works everywhere) whose comparator orders keys
ascending or descending as chosen at construction, and whose operator==
does not depend on the order of the entries - the property of
std::unordered_map the test is about.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Compare the test object type's entries with std::all_of

clang-tidy (readability-use-anyofallof) asked for std::all_of instead of
the loop in unordered_object_t's operator==. The entry type is spelled
out, as C++11 needs typename for base_type::value_type and C++20
reports it as redundant.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-27 14:21:58 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
85f8b21e1c Add tests for uncovered code paths (#5581)
* Add tests for uncovered code paths

Cover code the test suite did not reach, found from the Coveralls report
of develop and a local coverage run of HEAD:

- dump() of every kind of value below the bound of the recursive descent
  (pretty-printed objects, binary values, discarded values, scalars), and
  flushes of the escape and write buffers mid-string and mid-binary
- the iterative comparison: objects with different keys, containers that
  are a prefix of each other, and elements that cannot be ordered, each
  both at the top level and below the nesting bound
- SAX handlers that stop at any event, including the end of a nested
  container, in the BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON and BJData readers
- from_bson/cbor/msgpack/ubjson/bjdata returning a discarded value
  through the iterator and pointer overloads
- JSON Patch, diff, merge_patch and update(..., true) on ordered_json
- smaller gaps: get_allocator(), to_ubjson/to_bjdata into a string,
  value() with an unresolvable JSON pointer, integer/float comparison
  below the integer range and with negative fractions, conversion to a
  custom binary type, std::formatter::parse on a spec without '}',
  unescape() of a lone '~', and the callback parser's start_array()

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Cover more paths that were thought unreachable

- parse_float_fast() declining malformed or inexact input, called
  directly since the lexer only passes well-formed numbers to it
- a UTF-16 high surrogate followed by a unit above the low surrogates
- self-assignment of a const_iterator
- a truncated CBOR string read through non-contiguous iterators
- serializing a long double under the de_DE locale, which undoes the
  locale's decimal point and thousands separator
- values read from a binary format carrying no diagnostic positions,
  with and without a parser callback

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Fix the CI failures of the new coverage tests

- declare the self-assignment reference const (misc-const-correctness)
- expect the (/path) prefix that JSON_DIAGNOSTICS adds to the messages
  of the failing ordered_json patch operations

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Expect the byte range JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS adds to the patch errors

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Build the expected dump of the nested-object test with +=

clang-tidy (performance-inefficient-string-concatenation) reported the
chain of operator+ calls that assembled the expected indented output.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Compare the BJData and UBJSON test outputs byte by byte

Building a std::string from the byte vector converts each byte
implicitly, which -fsanitize=integer reports for bytes of 0x80 and
above (ci_test_clang_sanitizer).

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-27 14:19:22 +02:00