The "ill-formed: wrong fourth byte" SECTIONs in unit-unicode3.cpp,
unit-unicode4.cpp, and unit-unicode5.cpp guarded their loop with a check
on byte3 instead of byte4. Since the enclosing loop already restricts
byte3 to its valid range, the guard was always true and the section's
"continue" fired unconditionally, so check_utf8string()/check_utf8dump()
were never actually invoked for a malformed fourth byte.
Fixing the guard naively (byte3 -> byte4) would also have swept the full
byte2 x byte3 combinatorics for every byte4 value, adding millions of
redundant iterations: the lexer validates continuation bytes strictly in
sequence with early exit (see next_byte_in_range() in lexer.hpp), so once
byte2/byte3 are within their valid range, the byte4 outcome does not
depend on which valid byte2/byte3 values were chosen. Instead, byte2 and
byte3 are now held to a small hedge of representative valid prefixes
(range corners plus a midpoint) while byte4 is still swept exhaustively
over its full 0x00-0xFF range, since that is the actual property under
test. Also fixed the garbled "skip fourth second byte" comment in
unit-unicode3.cpp.
Verified offline: before the fix, the "wrong fourth byte" subcase
executes 0 assertions in all three files (proving it was dead code);
after the fix, it executes 11520 (unicode3), 34560 (unicode4), and 11520
(unicode5) assertions, and a deliberately reintroduced bug in the
lexer's byte4 range check causes it to fail (proving it is now
meaningful). Total per-file assertion counts grow by the same small
amounts, not by millions, and all other sections in these files still
pass unchanged.
Fixes#5416
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Niels Lohmann
