Raise line coverage to 99.9 %: fix the measurement, remove unreachable code, add tests (#5997)

* CI: measure line coverage without lcov's unexecuted-block adjustment

Drop geninfo_unexecuted_blocks=1 from the lcov capture of ci_test_coverage:
it reset every line of an inlined or templated function to 0 as soon as one
copy had an unexecuted block, which understated the line coverage by about
three points.

Add -fvar-tracking-assignments to both coverage builds. At -O0, GCC inlines
always_inline functions before it places the coverage counters, so the call
sites of such helpers (put_literal() and others) got no line record and
showed as 0 in an -O3 translation unit that never reaches them. With the
flag, the call sites carry counts in every translation unit. The generated
code is identical.

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

* Remove unreachable code found by the coverage analysis

Remove code that no input can reach, and mark the lines that cannot be
covered with LCOV_EXCL_LINE:

- BJData writer: the dry_run parameter of the ND-array element writers was
  always true; replace them by range checks.
- BON8 writer: call throw_integer_out_of_range() directly instead of
  write_bon8_value() for values that always throw.
- binary_writer: integer_bits() is only called for integers of up to 64 bits.
- serializer, view serializer, lexer: replace guards that the callers make
  unreachable by assertions or by the simpler code (surrogate pairs under
  ensure_ascii, next_unget, '-' at the end of the buffer).
- json_view: drop unreachable branches in scalar(), set(), check_utf8_scan(),
  append_input_impl() and unescape().
- Mark exception-cleanup braces, 2 GiB limits, big-endian and 32-bit code, and
  fall-through case labels with LCOV_EXCL_LINE.

No behavior changes for any input that reaches these functions.

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

* Tests: cover the remaining lines of the library headers

Add tests for the lines of include/nlohmann that were not covered: the
binary readers and writers, the lexer and locale paths, the json_view
modules, the custom number, key and array types, json_pointer, json_patch,
diff and the iterators.

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

* Fix test failures in the coverage tests

- unit-custom-object-key-type: remove the unused make_strict_key(strict_key)
  overload, the unused range constructor and default constructor, and guard
  data() with JSON_DIAGNOSTICS (unused-function/-member-function errors with
  GCC and clang -Weverything).
- unit-json_view_compare: move the two new sections to the new
  unit-json_view_compare_values.cpp, as the object file got too large for the
  MinGW assembler again, and use a std::map with std::greater instead of
  std::unordered_map, which does not accept the incomplete basic_json
  (clang 3.9, icpc).
- unit-json_view_dump: rename the variables that hid outer ones (MSVC C4456).
- unit-stream-bulk-scan: restore the real size of the oversized get area
  before the adapter is destroyed (JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION reads the
  character at the read position), and skip the test where the streambuf
  cannot hold a get area larger than an int (MSVC).
- unit-regression1: with JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL, copies are built member by
  member and keep correct timestamps, so check the corresponding outcome.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N5NasAgbDGG28MqXjQvLqp
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Return std::size_t from the hash helper in the ordered_json test

MSVC (Win32) rejected the implicit conversion of the unsigned long long
product to the 32-bit std::size_t (C4244 as an error). Also note when
JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL is set in the regression test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N5NasAgbDGG28MqXjQvLqp
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

tests/src/unit-json_pointer.cpp

@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@ TEST_CASE("JSON pointers")
         CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(p.pop_back(),
                              "[json.exception.out_of_range.405] JSON pointer has no parent", json::out_of_range&);
 
+        // the top of a pointer is its first reference token
+        const json::json_pointer nonempty("/foo/bar/0");
+        CHECK(nonempty.top() == json::json_pointer("/foo"));
+        CHECK(nonempty.top().to_string() == "/foo");
+        CHECK(json::json_pointer("/a~1b").top() == json::json_pointer("/a~1b"));
+
         SECTION("array index error")
         {
             json v = {1, 2, 3, 4};
@@ -697,6 +703,16 @@ TEST_CASE("JSON pointers")
         CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j_error.unflatten(),
                              "[json.exception.type_error.313] invalid value to unflatten", json::type_error&);
 
+        // error for an invalid escape sequence in a key
+        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json({{"/a~2", 1}}).unflatten(),
+        "[json.exception.parse_error.108] parse error: escape character '~' must be followed with '0' or '1'", json::parse_error&);
+        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json({{"/a/b", 1}, {"/c~", 1}}).unflatten(),
+        "[json.exception.parse_error.108] parse error: escape character '~' must be followed with '0' or '1'", json::parse_error&);
+
+        // error for an element of an array that is also a container
+        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json({{"/a/0", 1}, {"/a/0/x", 2}}).unflatten(),
+        "[json.exception.type_error.313] invalid value to unflatten", json::type_error&);
+
         // explicit roundtrip check
         CHECK(j.flatten().unflatten() == j);