From 4a4aa8cfc0253e466f6b66d03540f0e96bbe7503 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:37:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make max_input_size a function (GCC -Wunused-const-variable)

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
---
 include/nlohmann/detail/view/errors.hpp | 2 +-
 include/nlohmann/detail/view/node.hpp   | 5 ++++-
 include/nlohmann/json_view.hpp          | 2 +-
 tests/src/unit-json_view.cpp            | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/nlohmann/detail/view/errors.hpp b/include/nlohmann/detail/view/errors.hpp
index 8d67a3973..06c97b552 100644
--- a/include/nlohmann/detail/view/errors.hpp
+++ b/include/nlohmann/detail/view/errors.hpp
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ template<typename BasicJsonType>
 {
     if (f.code == error_code::input_too_large)
     {
-        // (the limit is detail::view::max_input_size: 4 GiB minus 16 bytes)
+        // (the limit is detail::view::max_input_size(): 4 GiB minus 16 bytes)
         NLOHMANN_VIEW_THROW(out_of_range::create(416, "input of 4294967280 bytes or more is not supported by json_document", nullptr));
     }
     const BasicJsonType accepted = BasicJsonType::parse(src, src + size, nullptr, true, ignore_comments, ignore_trailing_commas);
diff --git a/include/nlohmann/detail/view/node.hpp b/include/nlohmann/detail/view/node.hpp
index b36fc8c2a..891424281 100644
--- a/include/nlohmann/detail/view/node.hpp
+++ b/include/nlohmann/detail/view/node.hpp
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ static_assert(static_cast<std::uint8_t>(value_t::null) == 0 && static_cast<std::
 /// The largest input a document accepts, in bytes. Offsets and node counts are
 /// 32 bits wide; the limit keeps 16 bytes (the width of the scanner's steps)
 /// below 2^32, so that a position one step past the end of the text fits.
-static constexpr std::size_t max_input_size = 0xFFFFFFEFu;
+constexpr std::size_t max_input_size() noexcept
+{
+    return 0xFFFFFFEFu;
+}
 
 /// node flags
 struct node_flags
diff --git a/include/nlohmann/json_view.hpp b/include/nlohmann/json_view.hpp
index 5a7eb715b..d8b5c84ff 100644
--- a/include/nlohmann/json_view.hpp
+++ b/include/nlohmann/json_view.hpp
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ class basic_json_document
         d.discarded = true;
         detail::view::parse_failure failure;
         bool ok = false;
-        if (NLOHMANN_VIEW_UNLIKELY(size > detail::view::max_input_size))
+        if (NLOHMANN_VIEW_UNLIKELY(size > detail::view::max_input_size()))
         {
             failure.code = detail::view::error_code::input_too_large;
         }
diff --git a/tests/src/unit-json_view.cpp b/tests/src/unit-json_view.cpp
index e9cc4ca5f..b92dcae1a 100644
--- a/tests/src/unit-json_view.cpp
+++ b/tests/src/unit-json_view.cpp
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ TEST_CASE("json_view")
     {
         // 32-bit offsets: the limit is 4 GiB minus 16 bytes (a margin below 2^32),
         // which is what the exception message and the documentation say
-        const std::size_t limit = nlohmann::detail::view::max_input_size;
+        const std::size_t limit = nlohmann::detail::view::max_input_size();
         CHECK(limit == std::size_t{4294967279u});
 
         const oversized_input input{limit + 1};