Add json_document and json_view: node index, parser, and document

Add json_document and json_view, a read-only, zero-copy index of a
JSON text, as the first public slice of the zero-copy view (#5295).

A parse produces a flat array of 16-byte nodes in document order,
one per value and one per object key. Strings stay in the source
text; escaped strings are decoded into an arena. Integers are
converted while their digits are in the cache; floats keep only
their digit layout and are converted on read. Containers store the
size of their subtree, so a reader can step over one in constant
time. A document makes a handful of allocations, however many
values it has.

The parser accepts exactly what json::parse accepts, with every
combination of ignore_comments and ignore_trailing_commas, with and
without a trailing NUL, and under JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING. It is
portable C++11 and does not depend on byte order.

basic_json_document adds parse, parse_copy, accept, read (reuses a
document's memory), root, is_discarded, source, owns_source,
node_count, memory_usage, and shrink_to_fit. basic_json_view adds
type, the is_* queries, operator bool, size, empty, materialize,
and source_offset. A parse error throws the same exception
basic_json::parse would throw for the same input, message and
position included.

detail::abi_config keeps JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING and
JSON_USE_LEGACY_DISCARDED_VALUE_COMPARISON readable after json.hpp
undefines them, in the ABI namespace so they always match the
basic_json in use.

A NUL byte that ends a // comment is the end of the input, as in
parse() since #5696.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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# <small>nlohmann::basic_json_view::</small>materialize
```cpp
BasicJsonType materialize() const;
```
Builds the `BasicJsonType` value of this subtree: the value [`BasicJsonType::parse()`](../basic_json/parse.md) would
have produced for the same source text, allocated for the first time by this call.
## Return value
The `BasicJsonType` value of this subtree, or a discarded `BasicJsonType` value (`#!cpp BasicJsonType(value_t::discarded)`)
if the view is [discarded](is_discarded.md).
## Exception safety
Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes to the view or the document it refers to (nothing
about either is mutated by this function).
## Exceptions
May throw `#!cpp std::bad_alloc` (via `BasicJsonType`'s allocator) if constructing the result fails.
## Complexity
Linear in the size of the subtree.
## Notes
`materialize()` replays the subtree through the same SAX builder [`BasicJsonType::parse()`](../basic_json/parse.md)
uses internally, so the result matches it exactly -- including, for an object, that a repeated key keeps only its
last value. The replay is iterative, so it is not limited by the call stack the way a naive recursive conversion
would be; the JSON nesting depth is limited only by available memory, as for `BasicJsonType::parse()` itself.
Unlike parsing with [`JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS`](../macros/json_diagnostic_positions.md) enabled, the values
produced by `materialize()` do not carry source positions: there is no lexer run during the replay to record them.
Calling `materialize()` on the same view repeatedly builds a new, independent `BasicJsonType` value each time; it
never caches the result.
## Examples
??? example
The example below skips messages that are not useful -- a discarded value, or an empty array -- using only
[`is_array()`](is_array.md) and [`empty()`](empty.md), and calls `materialize()` only for the messages that are
actually used, so no `BasicJsonType` value (and none of its per-element allocations) is ever built for the
skipped ones.
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/basic_json_view__materialize.cpp"
```
Output:
```json
--8<-- "examples/basic_json_view__materialize.output"
```
## See also
- [root](../basic_json_document/root.md) - the view of a document's root value
- [`BasicJsonType::parse`](../basic_json/parse.md) - build a `BasicJsonType` value directly from a JSON text
- [`JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS`](../macros/json_diagnostic_positions.md) - source positions on parsed values (not
produced by `materialize()`)
## Version history
- Added in version 3.13.0.