Add images of json_documents: save() and load()

An image is a document stored so that loading it needs no
parsing: save() writes the node index, the text and the decoded
strings; the static load() reads an image written by save().

load() takes a pointer and size, a borrowed vector, or an owned
rvalue vector; the nodes are copied so they are aligned and can
be edited, while the text and decoded strings stay in the image.

image_check controls how much load() trusts the input: full
checks structure, bounds, strings and numbers, the parser's own
guarantees; bounds checks structure and bounds only; none skips
all checks, for images from a trusted source.

Layout is little-endian only ("NJVI" header, nodes, text, decoded
strings), following the idea of zero-copy formats such as
FlatBuffers and YaFF; the check follows FlatBuffers' Verifier.

New errors: parse_error.116 for a malformed image or a failed
check, type_error.320 for a discarded document or a big-endian
target.

A dedicated fuzzer and 6,000 seeded corruptions, checked under
ASan/UBSan, found and fixed two gaps: unchecked reserved header
fields, and unbounded null/boolean offsets that could make
dump() throw std::length_error.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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- Views of read-only documents compile without any of this: how views walk the index is a template parameter
(`navigation<Editable>`).
Images ([`save`](../api/basic_json_document/save.md) and [`load`](../api/basic_json_document/load.md),
[`detail/view/image.hpp`](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/include/nlohmann/detail/view/image.hpp)) store
the nodes as they are: a 64-byte header (the magic bytes `NJVI`, a format version, the sizes, and reserved bytes that
must be zero), the nodes, the text, and the decoded strings. An edited document is first written in document order, as
the parser would have written it (without links), and the numbers of the hash indexes are cleared, since `load`
rebuilds the indexes. So a change of the node layout is a change of the image format: it must raise `image_version`,
and `load` then rejects images of other versions (`parse_error.116`) instead of misreading them.
## Input adapters
Input is read via **input adapters** that abstract a source. Every input adapter provides this interface:
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[json.exception.parse_error.115] parse error at byte 5: syntax error while parsing UBJSON high-precision number: invalid number text: 1A
```
### json.exception.parse_error.116
[`basic_json_document::load()`](../api/basic_json_document/load.md) rejected an
[image](../features/json_view.md#images): either the bytes are not one [`save()`](../api/basic_json_document/save.md)
could have written (too short, an unknown magic number or format version, or sizes that do not fit the buffer), or
they are, but fail the requested [`image_check`](../api/basic_json_document/load.md#image_check).
!!! failure "Example message"
```
[json.exception.parse_error.116] parse error: invalid json_document image: the check failed
```
!!! note
This exception was added in version 3.13.0, together with [images](../features/json_view.md#images).
## Iterator errors
This exception is thrown if iterators passed to a library function do not match
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This exception was added in version 3.13.0, together with editable [`json_document`s](../features/json_view.md).
### json.exception.type_error.320
[`basic_json_document::save()`](../api/basic_json_document/save.md) cannot write an
[image](../features/json_view.md#images) of a [discarded](../api/basic_json_document/is_discarded.md) document.
[`save()`](../api/basic_json_document/save.md) and [`load()`](../api/basic_json_document/load.md) also throw this
exception on a big-endian target, since the image format is little-endian only.
!!! failure "Example messages"
```
[json.exception.type_error.320] cannot save a discarded json_document
```
```
[json.exception.type_error.320] json_document images need a little-endian target
```
!!! note
This exception was added in version 3.13.0, together with [images](../features/json_view.md#images).
### json.exception.type_error.321
A discarded value (one created by [`parse()`](../api/basic_json/parse.md) with a callback that returns `false` for the
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so they do not support an input of 4294967280 bytes (4 GiB minus 16 bytes) or more. The same 32-bit limit applies to an **editable** document's own
storage: [`set`](../api/basic_json_document/set.md) and [`push_back`](../api/basic_json_document/push_back.md) throw
this exception once the strings and number tokens written by edits reach 4 GiB in total, or once more than
4294967295 arrays/objects have had an element set or appended to them.
4294967295 arrays/objects have had an element set or appended to them. The same limit applies to an
[image](../features/json_view.md#images): [`save()`](../api/basic_json_document/save.md) throws it if the node
count, the text, or the decoded strings it would write would individually reach 4 GiB.
!!! failure "Example messages"
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```
[json.exception.out_of_range.416] edits of 4 GiB or more are not supported by json_document
```
```
[json.exception.out_of_range.416] images of 4 GiB or more are not supported by json_document
```
!!! note