Use standard library helpers where available, with C++11 fallbacks (#5876)

* Use standard library helpers where available, with C++11 fallbacks

Add detail helpers that call the standard library function when the
library provides it (checked with the __cpp_lib_* feature-test macros, so
no new ABI-tag macros) and a C++11 implementation otherwise:

- detail::clamp (std::clamp): by value, so that static constexpr members
  need no out-of-line definition before C++17; used in json_view's dump()
  buffer sizing, where step() can now be a static constexpr member.
- detail::bit_cast (std::bit_cast): replaces dtoa_impl::reinterpret_bits
  and the memcpy bit copies in the number parser, to_chars, the json_view
  serializer, and binary_writer::to_char_type.
- detail::byteswap (std::byteswap): one implementation instead of the
  binary writer's own byte_swap() overloads and the bswap chain in
  to_chars' store_msb_first().
- count_leading_zeros/count_trailing_zeros: two 32-bit _BitScanReverse/
  _BitScanForward calls for MSVC x86/ARM32 instead of the loop, and
  std::countl_zero/countr_zero for compilers without builtins.
- conjunction, disjunction, negation, bool_constant, and uncvref_t map to
  their std counterparts in C++17/C++20.

Builtins and intrinsics stay ahead of the <bit> functions, as MSVC's
std::countl_zero checks for LZCNT at run time unless AVX2 is enabled.

The generated code is unchanged with Clang (C++11/20/23, arm64 and
x86-64) and GCC 16 for parsing, dumping, and the binary formats. The
binary reader keeps its own byte_swap() and the writer its memcpy calls:
the smaller code from detail::byteswap/std::bit_cast there made GCC 16
inline get_number()/write_number() differently, which slowed reading by
10-18 % and writing by about 1 %.

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

* Name the target byte order once (JSON_LITTLE_ENDIAN_TARGET, JSON_BIG_ENDIAN_TARGET)

to_chars.hpp and bit_ops.hpp repeated the long __BYTE_ORDER__/_MSC_VER
conditions; macro_scope.hpp now defines them once (undefined again in
macro_unscope.hpp).

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

* Explain why the serializer growth bound is not a clamp

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
#include <cstddef> // size_t
#include <cstdint> // int64_t, uint64_t
#include <cstdlib> // strtof, strtod, strtold
#include <cstring> // memcpy
#include <limits> // numeric_limits
#include <string> // string
#include <type_traits> // conditional, integral_constant, is_signed, true_type, false_type
@@ -758,15 +757,14 @@ std::uint64_t digit_comparison(const char* first, const char* last, std::uint64_
inline void float_from_bits(std::uint64_t bits, double& value) noexcept
{
static_assert(sizeof(double) == sizeof(std::uint64_t), "double must have 64 bits");
std::memcpy(&value, &bits, sizeof(value));
value = bit_cast<double>(bits);
}
/// the float with the IEEE-754 bits @a bits (the lower 32)
inline void float_from_bits(std::uint64_t bits, float& value) noexcept
{
static_assert(sizeof(float) == sizeof(std::uint32_t), "float must have 32 bits");
const auto bits32 = static_cast<std::uint32_t>(bits);
std::memcpy(&value, &bits32, sizeof(bits32));
value = bit_cast<float>(static_cast<std::uint32_t>(bits));
}
/// the powers of ten that are exact in binary64 (up to 10^22)