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_view_large.cpp

@@ -333,6 +333,62 @@ TEST_CASE("json_view large objects")
         CHECK(without_collisions.memory_usage() >= with_collisions.memory_usage() + (table_size * sizeof(std::uint32_t)));
     }
 
+    SECTION("a lookup of a missing key stops at the end of the probe window")
+    {
+        // Every slot of the first half of the table holds a key, each at its home slot, so
+        // that the table is built; a key that is not in the object but whose home slot is
+        // the first slot finds a full window of slots with other keys.
+        constexpr std::size_t members = 128;
+        constexpr std::size_t table_size = 256; // the table size for 128 members: the next power of two >= 256
+        for (const std::size_t prefix_length :
+                {
+                    std::size_t{0}, std::size_t{20}
+                })
+        {
+            CAPTURE(prefix_length)
+            std::vector<std::string> keys(members);
+            std::vector<bool> taken(members, false);
+            std::string missing;
+            std::size_t found = 0;
+            for (std::uint64_t counter = 0; found < members || missing.empty(); ++counter)
+            {
+                std::string key(prefix_length, 'p');
+                std::uint64_t x = counter;
+                for (std::size_t i = 0; i < 8; ++i, x /= 26)
+                {
+                    key += static_cast<char>('a' + (x % 26));
+                }
+                const std::size_t slot = nlohmann::detail::conditional_static_cast<std::size_t>(nlohmann::detail::view::key_hash(key.data(), key.size())) & (table_size - 1);
+                if (slot < members && !taken[slot])
+                {
+                    taken[slot] = true;
+                    keys[slot] = key;
+                    ++found;
+                }
+                else if (slot == 0 && missing.empty())
+                {
+                    missing = key;
+                }
+            }
+            std::string text = "{";
+            for (std::size_t i = 0; i < members; ++i)
+            {
+                text += (i != 0 ? ",\"" : "\"") + keys[i] + "\":" + std::to_string(i);
+            }
+            text += "}";
+            const json_document d = json_document::parse(text);
+            const json_view v = d.root();
+            for (std::size_t i = 0; i < members; ++i)
+            {
+                CAPTURE(i)
+                CHECK(v[keys[i]].get<std::size_t>() == i);
+            }
+            CHECK(!v.contains(missing));
+            CHECK(v.find(missing) == v.end());
+            CHECK(v.count(missing) == 0);
+        }
+    }
+
     SECTION("keys that differ in their last bytes are spread over the table")
     {
         // The hash must spread the usual families of keys (numbered names, hex