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Niels Lohmann e2756a5dcb Move pretty_print, ensure_ascii and indent_step into the serializer
None of these change over the life of a serializer, unlike current_indent
and depth, which do change on every recursive call. They are now captured
once in the constructor - matching indent_char and error_handler - instead
of being threaded through dump(), dump_internal(), dump_iteratively(),
dump_value() and dump_escaped() on every call.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-10 18:02:56 +02:00
Niels Lohmann cbace12adf Parenthesize the reserve arithmetic in the deep-nesting test
clang-tidy's readability-math-missing-parentheses wants the multiplication
spelled out in reserve(6 * depth + 1), and CI treats its warnings as errors.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-10 18:02:56 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 06a4bdc2f4 Bound the descent of dump()
Serializing a container serializes its elements, so dump() descended into one
call per nesting level. A value nested deeply enough exhausted the call stack
and terminated the process with a segmentation fault - no exception, nothing
the caller could catch. Parsing such a value works, as the parser is
iterative, and so does destroying one, as #1436 made destruction iterative.

Bound how far the descent goes rather than take the call stack away from it.
The first 128 levels are written by exactly the code that always wrote them,
and only below that does dump_iteratively write out what is left, keeping the
containers it has entered on an explicit stack. Serializing can therefore no
longer exhaust the stack, however deeply a value is nested, while a value
nested less deeply than the bound pays only for one comparison per container.

Writing every value that way instead measured between 2% and 20% slower - 20%
on object-heavy documents - which is why the descent is kept for all but the
values that cannot afford it. The bound costs nothing measurable: between
-1.4% and +1.2% across compact and pretty output of number, integer, string,
object-heavy, wide-object and deeply nested documents.

The output is unchanged for every value. Both ways of writing a container
emit the separator in front of every element but the first, rather than
after every element but the last, which puts exactly one between each pair
and none at the end.

This fixes #5387 for dump(). The copy constructor is fixed in #5389.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-10 18:02:56 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 117770c627 Fill the indentation buffer once instead of once per flush
@gregmarr's point on the fill-and-flush loop: flushing does not disturb what
the write buffer holds, so an indentation spanning several buffer-fulls only
has to be written into the buffer once and can then be handed to the adapter
as many times as needed. The loop re-filled it every time, doing work it
already knew was there.

put_indent() now fills the room left in the buffer, and if anything remains,
flushes, fills the buffer once, and re-flushes that same content. It also
returns early for a zero-width indentation, which is what the closing brace of
every outermost value asks for.

Measured over a dump(), counting memset calls and bytes inside put_indent:

    indent       before              after
         4       1 call /     4 B    1 call /     4 B
      2000       2 calls /  2000 B   2 calls /  2046 B
    100000      98 calls / 100000 B  2 calls /  2046 B

The wide case is now constant work rather than proportional to the indentation
width; ordinary widths are unchanged. Tests extended to cover several whole
buffer-fulls and an exact multiple of the buffer size.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-10 18:02:56 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 596aac7668 Split the write-buffer helpers and write indentation directly
Follow-up to @gregmarr's review: put_chars() was doing four unrelated jobs, so
give the two that can be made safe their own entry points.

- put_literal(): takes the literal by reference and deduces the length from the
  array bound, so the 27 hand-counted lengths at the call sites can no longer
  drift from the literals they describe. A literal is checked at compile time to
  fit the buffer, so this path needs no write-through branch.

- put_buffer(): takes the fixed-size buffer itself rather than a bare pointer,
  so the length can be checked against the buffer's own bound.

- put_indent(): memsets the indentation into the write buffer, filling and
  flushing it as needed. This removes indent_string entirely, and with it both
  bugs of #5186: the indentation string was grown by doubling, which is not
  enough when indent_step more than doubles it (a heap over-read - dump(2000)
  read 2000 bytes out of a 1024-byte string), and the grown part was filled with
  a space instead of the configured indent_char. next_indent() keeps that PR's
  assertion against the unsigned indentation accumulation wrapping on deep
  nesting.

put_chars() keeps the two cases that are genuinely a pointer and a count: the
run-length copies out of the string being escaped, and to_chars() output.

Tests cover an indent_step wider than the write buffer, a non-space indentation
character past the old growth point, and nesting whose accumulated indentation
spans several buffer-fulls. All three fail against develop.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-10 18:02:56 +02:00
Niels LohmannandClaude Opus 4.8 ab84e199ff Avoid deep recursion in serialization write-buffer test
The "many small structural writes exceed the write buffer" subcase built
a 1100-deep nested array and dumped it to force >1024 consecutive
single-character writes through put_char (exercising the write buffer's
flush-when-full branch). dump() recurses per nesting level, so on MSVC
debug builds (smaller default stack, larger frames) this overflowed the
stack and crashed test-serialization; Linux/macOS have enough headroom to
hide it.

Replace the nesting with a flat array of 500 empty strings. Each element
emits '"', '"', ',' via put_char, so the dump is a long run of
single-character writes (1501 bytes > the 1024-byte buffer) at nesting
depth two, hitting the same flush branch without deep recursion. Library
code is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XAYM1qhSA2FDaDcGfPW3fG
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-10 18:02:56 +02:00
Niels LohmannandClaude Opus 4.8 b0c55c1942 Flush serializer buffer in dump_escaped unit test
test-convenience failed (macOS finished first; the failure is
platform-independent) because check_escaped() calls the internal
serializer::dump_escaped() directly and then reads the output stream.
Since dump_escaped() now writes into the serializer's internal write
buffer, the bytes were still buffered and the stream was empty.

Expose flush() under JSON_PRIVATE_UNLESS_TESTED (same visibility as
dump_escaped) and flush in check_escaped() before inspecting the output.
Per-string flushing inside dump_escaped() was rejected on purpose: it
would defeat the buffering that makes object/array-heavy dumps faster.
Library behavior is unchanged (flush()'s body is identical; only its
access label moved).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XAYM1qhSA2FDaDcGfPW3fG
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-10 18:02:56 +02:00
Niels LohmannandClaude Opus 4.8 f53c219597 Buffer serializer output and add ensure_ascii string fast path
Two further serialization speedups on top of the ensure_ascii=false bulk
copy, both reusing the SWAR primitives in detail/input/string_scan.hpp.

1. Internal write buffer (devirtualization). Every structural character
   ('{', '"', ',', ...) previously went straight to the output adapter
   through a virtual call. Route all writes through put_char/put_chars
   into a 1 KiB buffer that flushes in bulk; the public dump() flushes
   once the top-level value is done (the recursive worker is split out as
   dump_internal). Runs larger than the buffer are written straight
   through, so large payloads are not copied twice. This is the dominant
   cost for object/array-heavy values.

2. ensure_ascii fast path. dump_escaped previously ran the UTF-8 DFA over
   every byte when escaping non-ASCII. Add find_ascii_copyable_run() (a
   SWAR scan stopping at '"', '\\', < 0x20, 0x7F, and >= 0x80) so runs of
   printable ASCII are bulk-copied, with the byte path handling each
   escape/non-ASCII byte exactly as before.

Behavior is unchanged: dump output is byte-for-byte identical to the
previous implementation across ~20k randomized byte strings plus curated
edge cases (all escapes, control chars, 0x7F, valid multibyte,
surrogates, overlong, truncated), for object/array/pretty output, both
ensure_ascii settings, and all three error handlers, in C++11/17/20 at
-O2/-O3. New unit tests cover the buffer flush boundaries, the escape and
0x7F handling, multibyte under both settings, and invalid-UTF-8 handling.

Throughput (g++ -O3, vs the ensure_ascii=false-only baseline):
  long ASCII, ensure_ascii=0   4.2x
  long ASCII, ensure_ascii=1   4.1x
  twitter-like objects         2.7x
  dense CJK                    1.8x

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XAYM1qhSA2FDaDcGfPW3fG
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-10 18:02:56 +02:00
Niels Lohmann bfb07786cd Fix to_bjdata() silently truncating out-of-range _ArrayData_ elements (#5473)
write_bjdata_ndarray() validated that each _ArrayData_ element matched
the number kind (integer vs. float) named by _ArrayType_, but not its
range. An element that did not fit the target C++ type (e.g. 256 for
"uint8") was silently wrapped by the static_cast used to write it, or,
for "single", silently overflowed to infinity.

Range-check each element against the type named by _ArrayType_ before
writing it, reusing the existing fallback path that already encodes
the annotated object as a plain object for other invalid-annotation
cases in this function.

Fixes #5403.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-10 17:59:28 +02:00
Niels LohmannandClaude Opus 4.8 4a93aa4e2f Speed up parsing of contiguous input (numbers, strings, UTF-8) (#5283)
* Speed up number parsing in the lexer (fast paths from the fast_float/simdjson world)

The number scanner converted its already-validated digit buffer with
std::strtoull/std::strtoll/std::strtod. Those pull in locale and errno
machinery and dominate number-heavy parsing (strtod runs at ~6 M/s).

Replace them with dedicated parsers over the validated buffer:

- parse_integer_unsigned / parse_integer_signed: accumulate digits with
  overflow detection, falling back to the float path on overflow exactly
  as the strtoull/strtoll round-trip check did. Overflow behavior is
  unchanged for narrower or wider custom number types.

- parse_float_fast: Clinger's exact fast path for `double` (<=19 significant
  digits, |exp10| <= 22, significand < 2^53), where significand * 10^exp is
  exact under IEEE round-to-nearest. This is the same fast path used by
  fast_float/simdjson. It is bit-identical to strtod on this subset and
  declines (falling back to strtod) otherwise. Only `double` uses it; float
  and long double keep std::strtof/std::strtold via a templated overload.

Measured on representative data (g++ 13, -O3):
  - integers:  DOM parse +11%, SAX +25-34%
  - floats:    DOM parse +37%, SAX +70%  (clang: float DOM ~1.9x)

No dependencies added; header-only and C++11-clean. Existing parser,
lexer, conversion and deserialization unit tests pass unchanged; a
3M-value random-double fuzz matches strtod bit-for-bit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Add SWAR bulk string scanning for contiguous input (simdjson-style)

scan_string() read the input one character at a time through the input
adapter and classified every byte with a large switch. For contiguous
byte buffers we can instead scan 8 bytes at a time with a SWAR word test
that finds the first byte needing individual handling (the closing quote,
an escape, a control character, or a non-ASCII UTF-8 byte) and bulk-append
the ordinary run in one go.

- input adapters expose supports_bulk_scan / bulk_data / bulk_remaining /
  bulk_skip for provably-contiguous, same-type, 1-byte iterator ranges
  (raw pointers in every standard; std::string/std::vector/std::array and
  friends additionally in C++20 via std::contiguous_iterator).
- the lexer gains a bulk_scan capability (gated on lazy_token_string so
  bypassing the per-character capture cannot lose error diagnostics) and a
  scan_string_bulk() fast path; streaming/wide/user adapters are unchanged
  and keep the byte-at-a-time scanner.

The run contains no newline (all bytes < 0x20 are treated as special), so
position bookkeeping stays exact, and error tokens are still reconstructed
lazily from the consumed byte range. The SWAR special-byte test is pure
uint64_t arithmetic - no intrinsics, no runtime dispatch, C++11-clean.

Measured on representative data, pointer input, g++ 13 -O3
(string values discarded by accept() see the largest gains):

  long ASCII strings:  DOM +4.5x,  SAX +14x,   accept +17x  (to ~2 GB/s)
  short strings:       DOM +15%,   SAX +62%,   accept +85%
  escape-heavy:        DOM +31%,   SAX +26%,   accept +28%

Same-input parity verified: 200k randomized documents (escapes, multibyte
UTF-8, surrogate pairs) accept/parse identically via the contiguous SWAR
path and the streaming byte path; unit lexer/parser/diagnostic-position/
deserialization/conversions suites pass unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Validate UTF-8 in the bulk string scanner (portable ~2-3x on non-ASCII text)

The SWAR bulk string path stopped at the first non-ASCII byte and handed
every multibyte character to the byte-at-a-time scanner, whose per-byte
get()/next_byte_in_range()/add() machinery runs at roughly half the speed
of validating straight from the buffer. As a result, dense non-ASCII text
(CJK, emoji, accented Latin) parsed ~10-15x slower than ASCII.

Fold well-formed UTF-8 into the bulk run: scan_string_bulk() now, on a
non-ASCII lead byte, validates one sequence with validate_one_utf8() -
which mirrors scan_string()'s per-byte switch ranges exactly (rejecting
overlong forms, surrogates, and out-of-range code points) - and appends it
in place, continuing until the closing quote, an escape, a control byte,
or an ill-formed sequence. All error handling still defers to the byte
path, so error messages and positions are byte-for-byte unchanged.

Because only well-formed content is fast-pathed and every rejection falls
through to the existing scanner, behavior is identical; the win is purely
throughput. Measured on pointer input (accept, string values discarded):

  content        g++ 13         clang 18
  dense CJK      277 -> 648     ~605  MB/s   (~2.3x)
  dense emoji    299 -> 857     ~702  MB/s   (~2.6-2.9x)
  mixed 90% ASCII 246 -> 331    ~334  MB/s   (~1.35x)
  pure ASCII     unchanged (~3.2 / 4.1 GB/s)

Verified: 2,000,000 randomized documents built from arbitrary bytes
(overlong, surrogate, truncated, out-of-range sequences) accept/reject and
parse identically via the contiguous path and the streaming byte path;
lexer/parser/diagnostic-position/deserialization/conversions suites pass
unchanged. Pure C++11, no intrinsics.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Route contiguous byte containers through the pointer adapter (fast paths in C++11)

json::parse(std::string) - the most common entry point - did not benefit
from the contiguous fast paths (bulk string scanning, UTF-8 bulk
validation, memcpy for binary formats) in C++11..17: std::string::iterator
is a library wrapper, not a raw pointer, and pre-C++20 there is no portable
way to prove it contiguous, so supports_bulk_scan was false. Only raw
pointers, string literals, and C-arrays (and, in C++20, anything modelling
std::contiguous_iterator) took the fast path.

Detect contiguous single-byte containers (std::string, std::vector<char>,
std::vector<std::uint8_t>, std::string_view, ...) via is_contiguous_byte_
container and route them through an iterator_input_adapter built from
data()/data()+size(). The generic iterator-based container overload is
constrained to exclude these, so the two overloads are disjoint and there
is no ambiguity (a plain competing overload loses to the greedy
forwarding-reference container overload on reference binding, and a factory
partial-specialization is ambiguous - both were tried and rejected).

The pointer keeps the container's own element type, so char_type - and
therefore all parsing behavior - is byte-for-byte identical to the iterator
path (const char* for std::string, const std::uint8_t* for
std::vector<std::uint8_t>); only the raw pointer additionally turns on the
fast paths. Lifetimes are unchanged: the container outlives the adapter for
the full parse expression, exactly as the iterators it replaces did.

Measured, C++11, json::parse/accept(std::string), g++ 13:

  long ASCII strings:  accept 201 -> 3200 MB/s  (~16x),  parse 174 -> 1444
  dense CJK:           accept 263 ->  697 MB/s  (~2.6x)
  short strings:       accept 163 ->  243 MB/s  (~1.5x)

Verified: char_type preserved for std::string (char) and
std::vector<std::uint8_t> (uint8_t); CBOR/MsgPack round-trips from
std::vector<std::uint8_t> unchanged; 1,000,000 randomized documents accept
and parse identically via std::string and via std::istream;
deserialization/user-defined-input/parser/lexer/conversions/diagnostic-
position suites pass (20,480 assertions); warning-clean on g++ and clang in
C++11/17/20.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Add optional simdutf backend for bulk UTF-8 validation (JSON_USE_SIMDUTF)

The bulk string scanner validates UTF-8 straight from a contiguous buffer.
The scalar validator caps at ~0.3-0.7 GB/s on non-ASCII text; a SIMD
validator reaches several GB/s. Rather than hand-rolling SIMD UTF-8
validation (easy to get subtly wrong - a from-scratch SSE attempt rejected
valid CJK), wire in the vetted simdutf library behind an opt-in switch.

simdutf is not header-only (it ships simdutf.cpp and uses runtime CPU
dispatch), so it is not vendored: defining JSON_USE_SIMDUTF includes
<simdutf.h> and routes the bulk validator through simdutf::validate_utf8;
the project supplies and links simdutf. Undefined (the default), nothing
external is included and the portable C++11 scalar path is used, so the
library stays header-only and its baseline behavior is unchanged.

Design keeps behavior identical either way:
- scan_string_bulk() now finds the run up to the next quote/escape/control
  byte (non-ASCII allowed) and validates it in one shot; on the rare
  validation failure it recomputes the exact valid prefix with the scalar
  helper, so ill-formed input still falls through to the byte path and is
  reported at the same position with the same message.
- the per-sequence scalar path is factored into scalar_string_bulk_run()
  and is the default backend; the refactor is behavior-preserving and does
  not change scalar throughput.

Verified: default and JSON_USE_SIMDUTF builds accept/reject/parse
identically across 2,000,000 arbitrary-byte documents and 1,000,000
mixed-escape/UTF-8 documents (differential fuzz vs the streaming byte
path); lexer/parser/diagnostic-position/deserialization suites pass under
both configurations (20,188 assertions with the backend enabled);
warning-clean on g++ and clang, C++11 and C++20, both configurations.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Add a contiguous fast path for scanning numbers

scan_number() reads a number one character at a time through the input
adapter (get()) and appends each byte to token_buffer (add()) before
converting. For contiguous input, the per-character get()/add() overhead
dominates: it is roughly two thirds of the time spent on number-heavy
parsing, far more than the value conversion itself.

Add scan_number_bulk_contiguous(), which parses the whole number token
straight from the input buffer: it validates and classifies the extent
with the same grammar as scan_number()'s state machine, materializes
token_buffer in one copy (substituting the locale decimal point exactly as
scan_number() does), advances the adapter, and reuses the shared
convert_number() tail. On anything it does not recognize as a well-formed
number it makes no state change and returns token_type::uninitialized, so
the caller falls back to scan_number(), which then produces the exact
diagnostic. Errors and their positions are therefore unchanged.

The conversion tail is factored out of scan_number() into convert_number()
so both scanners share it; the fast path is selected by tag dispatch on the
existing bulk_scan capability, so streaming/wide/user adapters are
unaffected.

Measured on pointer input, g++ 13 -O3:
  - integers: parse +65%, accept +98%
  - floats:   parse +39%, accept +70%

Verified: 2,000,000 randomized number documents (including overflow-range
integers, long digit strings and %.17g doubles) parse identically via the
contiguous path and the streaming byte path, matching value, type and
round-trip text; the locale suite and existing parser/lexer/conversions/
deserialization tests pass; a new "lexer number fast path" test checks
contiguous-vs-streaming parity, token classification, and that malformed
numbers are rejected identically. Pure C++11, no intrinsics.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA
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* Move byte-level scan/parse helpers out of lexer.hpp

lexer.hpp had grown by ~600 lines of byte-level helpers that have no
dependency on the lexer's template parameters and clutter the state
machine. Move them, unchanged, into two focused headers as free functions
in namespace detail:

- number_parse.hpp: parse_integer_unsigned/parse_integer_signed (now
  templated on the number type) and parse_float_fast (Clinger's exact
  double fast path, with the decimal point passed as an argument instead of
  read from a lexer member).
- string_scan.hpp: the SWAR string helpers (is_string_special,
  swar_string_special, find_string_special, validate_one_utf8,
  scalar_string_bulk_run) and the backend-dispatched string_bulk_run,
  including the optional simdutf include and find_string_delimiter.

lexer.hpp now includes these and calls the free functions; the methods that
touch lexer state (scan_string, scan_number, scan_string_bulk,
scan_number_bulk_contiguous, convert_number) stay put. This is a pure code
move with no behavior change: lexer.hpp drops from 2357 to 1934 lines, the
now-unused <cstdint>/<cstring>/<limits> includes are removed, and the
free-function form makes the SWAR helpers reusable elsewhere (e.g. the
serializer's string escaping).

Verified: default and JSON_USE_SIMDUTF builds compile; 2,000,000 number and
2,000,000 arbitrary-byte-string differential-fuzz documents parse
identically to before; lexer/parser/conversions/deserialization/locale/
diagnostic-position suites pass (20,576 assertions); warning-clean on g++
and clang in C++11/17/20; the amalgamation regenerates and passes
check-amalgamation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Fix clang-tidy findings and document JSON_USE_SIMDUTF in the nav

- number_parse.hpp: use std::array for the powers-of-ten table
  (avoid-c-arrays) and `auto` for the cast-initialized result
  (modernize-use-auto), matching the codebase style (cf. the serializer's
  utf8d table). Indexing casts keep the -Wsign-conversion build clean.
- add JSON_USE_SIMDUTF to the mkdocs navigation so the macro page is
  reachable.

No behavior change; clang-tidy is clean on the new headers and the
amalgamation is regenerated.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA
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* Fix number fast path for custom string types without assign()

The contiguous number fast path materialized token_buffer with
token_buffer.assign(data, len), but string_t is only required to provide
the minimal interface the rest of the lexer uses (push_back, append,
clear, operator[], ...). Custom string types such as the test's alt_string
do not implement assign(), so scan_number_bulk_contiguous() failed to
compile for them (unit-alt-string), breaking the gcc/clang standards and
old-compiler CI jobs.

reset() already clears token_buffer, so fill it with append() - which
alt_string and std::string both provide and which the string fast path
already relies on - instead of assign().

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Satisfy clang-tidy: parenthesize math and drop unused forwarding reference

The CI clang-tidy (newer than the locally available version) reported two
additional checks on the new code:

- readability-math-missing-parentheses: parenthesize the (a * b) + c digit
  accumulations in number_parse.hpp.
- cppcoreguidelines-missing-std-forward: the contiguous-byte-container
  input_adapter overload took a forwarding reference but only reads
  data()/size() and never forwards it. It is already disjoint from the
  generic container overload via SFINAE, so a plain const& is correct and
  clearer (and keeps the container alive for the whole parse just as before).

No behavior change; char_type and routing are unchanged (std::string and
std::vector<std::uint8_t> still take the pointer adapter with char/uint8_t
char_type), CBOR/MsgPack round-trips and the 2M number fuzz still pass.

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* Use std::from_chars (Eisel-Lemire) for float conversion when available

The Clinger fast path is exact only for the "easy" subset (<=19 significant
digits, |exp10| <= 22); high-precision and scientific floats fall through to
strtod, where the failed Clinger attempt actually makes parsing a net loss.
std::from_chars implements the Eisel-Lemire algorithm in modern standard
libraries: locale-independent, correctly rounded, and fast over the whole
value range.

convert_number() now tries parse_float_from_chars() first (guarded by
__cpp_lib_to_chars, so C++11 and libc++-without-float-support keep the
Clinger + strtod path unchanged), then Clinger, then strtof. from_chars is
used only when it consumes the entire token; a partial parse means a non-'.'
locale decimal point, and an under-/overflow (result_out_of_range) also
declines - in both cases the existing strtod fallback supplies the exact
value and the well-defined +/-inf/0 the parser expects, side-stepping the
P4168 divergence between implementations. float and long double now get the
fast path too (Clinger was double-only).

Measured, C++17, g++ 13 -O3, json::parse/accept:
  - canada-style floats: ~unchanged (Clinger already covered them)
  - high-precision (17 digits):  parse 2.1x, accept 2.5x
  - scientific (17 digits + exp): parse 3.6x, accept 4.1x

Verified: C++11 (Clinger/strtod) and C++17 (from_chars) parse every value -
including subnormals, boundary values, and 1e9999/1e-9999 over-/underflow -
to bit-identical results; 2M number-fuzz clean; conversions/deserialization/
locale/number-fast-path suites pass in both C++11 and C++17; clang-tidy
clean; warning-clean on g++ and clang in C++11/17/20.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Guard from_chars use on JSON_HAS_CPP_17, not just __cpp_lib_to_chars

libstdc++ 15 defines __cpp_lib_to_chars even in C++14 mode (via
bits/version.h pulled in by other headers), but <charconv> is only included
under JSON_HAS_CPP_17. That made parse_float_from_chars() reference
std::from_chars without the header in C++14 builds, breaking gcc-latest,
icpx, and the offline-testdata jobs.

Gate the use on JSON_HAS_CPP_17 && __cpp_lib_to_chars so it matches the
include condition exactly; C++11/14 always take the scalar fallback.
Verified by forcing __cpp_lib_to_chars in a C++14 build: the guard
suppresses std::from_chars and it compiles. C++17 behavior is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Disable Clinger float fast path under extended FP precision (x87)

The contiguous number fast path uses a Clinger-style exact algorithm
(significand * 10^scale in double arithmetic), which is only correctly
rounded when double operations are evaluated in true 53-bit precision.
On the x87 FPU used by 32-bit x86 (FLT_EVAL_METHOD == 2) the single
multiply/divide is computed in 80-bit and then double-rounded to double,
so a small fraction of values land 1 ULP off.

This surfaced as test-cbor_cpp11 and test-msgpack_cpp11 failing on the
mingw (x86) job for regression/floats.json: the C++17 builds pass because
they take the correctly-rounded std::from_chars path, while C++11 falls
back to parse_float_fast(). A 5M-sample check over shortest round-trip
decimals reproduces it: 0 divergences with 53-bit doubles, ~1 in 25 000
with 80-bit intermediates; declining to std::strtod fixes all of them.

Guard parse_float_fast() on FLT_EVAL_METHOD so it declines whenever the
platform evaluates doubles in extended precision, letting the caller use
the correctly-rounded std::from_chars / std::strtod path instead. On
mainstream x86-64/ARM64 (FLT_EVAL_METHOD == 0) the fast path is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Guard <charconv> include with __has_include for GCC 7

GCC 7 sets __cplusplus to the C++17 value under -std=gnu++1z, so
JSON_HAS_CPP_17 is defined, but its libstdc++ ships no <charconv> header
(added in GCC 8; floating-point from_chars in GCC 11). The unconditional
"#if defined(JSON_HAS_CPP_17) #include <charconv>" therefore failed to
compile there: "fatal error: charconv: No such file or directory" in the
ci_test_compilers_gcc (7) job.

Wrap the include in __has_include(<charconv>), mirroring the library's
existing handling of <version> and <filesystem> in macro_scope.hpp. When
the header is absent, __cpp_lib_to_chars stays undefined and
parse_float_from_chars() takes its scalar fallback, so the from_chars use
site (already gated on __cpp_lib_to_chars) is never reached. GCC 8-10,
which have <charconv> but no floating-point from_chars, are unaffected:
they include the header but still take the fallback. GCC 11+ is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Restore the column when ungetting a newline

The contiguous number fast path never reads the character that terminates
a number token, while scan_number() reads it and then ungets it. When that
character is a newline, get() has already cleared chars_read_current_line,
and unget() could only restore lines_read - leaving the column at 0. The
two paths therefore reported different columns for the same document:

    json::parse("[01\n]")      -> line 1, column 3
    json::parse(stringstream)  -> line 1, column 0

Remember the column the newline was read at so unget() can restore it.
Both paths now report the position the offending token actually starts at,
which also fixes the pre-existing column-0 artifact for streaming input.

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

* Extend the bulk scan fast paths to sized sentinels

supports_bulk_scan required IteratorType and SentinelType to be the same
type, which excluded std::counted_iterator paired with std::default_sentinel_t
- the combination #5268 had already enabled for the memcpy fast path. Such
input fell back to the byte-at-a-time scanner even though it is contiguous
and its remaining length is computable in O(1).

Factor the "distance is computable in O(1)" test into sentinel_is_sized and
use it for iterator_is_contiguous, supports_seek, and supports_bulk_scan
alike, and share the std::ranges::distance/std::distance dispatch through a
remaining_count() helper.

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

* Document JSON_USE_SIMDUTF on the macro overview page

The macro was only listed in the API macro index; add it to the supported
macros overview alongside the other JSON_USE_* macros, and note that it
selects between two definitions of the same inline function and so must be
defined identically in every translation unit.

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

* Amalgamate source code

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

* Cover the counted-iterator bulk scan paths

Sized sentinels newly reach the bulk string/number scanners and the
seek-based token reconstruction, so exercise both:

- diagnostics that quote the offending token, which are rebuilt from the
  consumed input via copy_consumed_range()
- inputs whose count ends before the underlying buffer does, including a
  closing quote that exists only behind the count, a cut inside an 8-byte
  SWAR stride, and a cut inside a UTF-8 sequence

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

* Fix the SentinelType example on iterator_input_adapter

The comment offered "a C++20 sentinel or counted_iterator" as examples of a
SentinelType, but std::counted_iterator is the IteratorType - the sentinel it
pairs with is std::default_sentinel_t. #5268 corrected the same wording in the
API documentation and left the code comment behind.

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

* Do not discard the parse result in the error position check

json::parse is declared warn_unused_result, and CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS
evaluates its expression as a discarded statement, so the assertion broke
the -Werror builds (GCC -Werror=unused-result, MSVC C4834 under /WX).
Compare against the helper that already captures the message instead.

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

* Lock the two number grammars together with a parity test

The JSON number grammar is encoded twice: as the scan_number() state machine
and as the contiguous fast path. The fast path declining on anything it does
not recognize keeps most divergence harmless, but if it ever accepted
something the state machine rejects the result would be a silent correctness
bug, and the existing test only pinned a hand-written list of numbers.

Enumerate every string of length 1..4 over "01.eE+-" (2800 tokens) and
require both paths to agree on the parsed value and on the exact error
message. Verified to fail if the fast path's grammar is perturbed.

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

* Skip token_buffer for integers on the contiguous path

An integer token does not need token_buffer: the number_integer and
number_unsigned SAX callbacks take only the value, and the overflow
diagnostic rebuilds the text from the input via get_token_string(). Convert
straight from the input buffer and materialize the token only for the
floating-point tail, which still needs a NUL-terminated buffer for strtod.

JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS derives a number's start position from
get_string().size(), so the copy is kept when that is enabled.

The integer dispatch is factored into convert_integer() and shared with
convert_number(), so both scanners keep using one implementation.

Integer-heavy input, 400k values, -O3:

              parse    accept
  gcc 16      +14%     +23%
  clang       +15%     +22%

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

* Amalgamate source code

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

* Cover the bulk string and UTF-8 scanners

These paths had no dedicated tests and rested on differential fuzzing only.
Add three sections, all comparing the contiguous scanner against the
byte-at-a-time one on the parsed value and on the exact error message:

- every string of length 1..3 over an alphabet of ordinary ASCII, both
  specials, a control byte, escape characters, UTF-8 lead and continuation
  bytes, and a byte that is never valid - each at offset 0 and offset 9, so
  the bulk scanner sees them with and without a run behind them
- every kind of run-ending byte at each offset across two 8-byte SWAR words,
  so multibyte sequences also straddle the word boundary
- the boundaries of every range validate_one_utf8() recognizes: shortest and
  longest encodings, overlongs, both ends of the surrogate block, U+10FFFF
  and just past it, and truncated sequences

Verified to fail if the bulk validator accepts surrogates, and if the SWAR
word test stops detecting control characters.

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

* Format the new string fast path test with astyle

The pinned astyle expands a braced-init-list used as a range-for range onto
several lines; hoist the two offsets into a named vector instead, which reads
better and leaves nothing for astyle to reformat.

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

* Fix shadowed locals and guard the exception-dependent tests

Two problems in the tests added for the bulk scanners, both found by CI:

- the inner `const json j` in the counted-iterator diagnostics shadowed the
  one declared at test-case scope, which -Wshadow rejects on GCC and clang
  and C4456 rejects on MSVC under /WX; rename them
- the new parity checks parse deliberately invalid input, which calls
  std::abort() rather than throwing when JSON_NOEXCEPTION is defined, so
  they would have crashed the no-exception build; guard them the way the
  other tests do

json::accept() does not abort, so the UTF-8 range assertions stay compiled
without exceptions and keep covering validate_one_utf8() there.

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

* Gate the C++20 iterator classification on JSON_HAS_RANGES

Making supports_bulk_scan depend on iterator_is_contiguous meant the trait
is now instantiated for every adapter, not only when get_elements() is
called. On standard libraries with an incomplete <ranges> that is fatal:
libstdc++ 10 evaluates std::contiguous_iterator<std::counted_iterator<T*>>
by calling std::to_address, which needs an operator-> its counted_iterator
does not have, so satisfaction checking is a hard error rather than false.
Reported by clang 14 + libstdc++ 10.

JSON_HAS_RANGES already encodes exactly this ("libstdc++ < 11 has incomplete
C++20 ranges", #4440), so require it for the C++20 branch. Affected
toolchains fall back to the pointer-only test and the byte-at-a-time
scanner, which parses identically, just without the bulk fast paths.

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

* Amalgamate source code

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

* Satisfy clang-tidy in the new bulk scanner tests

- give the helper lambdas an explicit std::string return type and return
  braced initializer lists (modernize-return-braced-init-list)
- replace the C-style array of test cases with a std::vector
  (modernize-avoid-c-arrays)
- silence pro-type-member-init on the two brace-initialized aggregates;
  default member initializers would stop them being aggregates in C++11

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

* Avoid escaped literals in the counted-iterator diagnostics list

clang-tidy reads "[\"\\ud834\"]" as a literal better written raw, and the
two literals written next to each other in "[\"a\x01""b\"]" as a missing
comma. The concatenation was there to stop the hex escape swallowing the
following character; build those documents from explicit bytes instead and
use raw strings elsewhere. The byte sequences are unchanged.

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

* Reattach convert_number's documentation

@gregmarr spotted that convert_integer() was inserted between convert_number()
and its doc block, leaving convert_integer() with two stacked blocks and
convert_number() with none. Comment only; no code change.

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

* Address review comments on the simdutf backend

string_bulk_run() had the same `return scalar_string_bulk_run(...)` in both
arms of the `#if`. The simdutf arm already falls through when validation
fails, so a single return after the `#endif` says the same thing.

The JSON_USE_SIMDUTF example showed `#include <simdutf.h>`, which
string_scan.hpp already does under the same guard; users only have to put the
header on the include path and link the library, not include it themselves.

Set the version history entry to 3.13.0, matching the other macro pages
documenting unreleased features.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MXDi7NTMKAmoArUZSKMc4T
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Pin the number error position against a non-newline terminator

The comment claimed the reported column is the one the offending token starts
at. It is the column reached after the token's last character - which is the
actual point of the unget() change: a number terminated by a newline now
reports what the same number terminated by a space always did.

Assert that equality directly, and add a multi-character token where the start
and end columns differ, so the invariant cannot be read off a single-character
example.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MXDi7NTMKAmoArUZSKMc4T
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Do not repeat the integer conversion that just failed

scan_number_bulk_contiguous() converts an integer token straight from the input
buffer. When the value does not fit, it materializes token_buffer and calls
convert_number(), which tried the very same integer conversion again before
falling back to floating point.

Recording the outcome in number_type skips the second attempt. The resulting
token type and value are unchanged: convert_number() reached the float tail
either way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MXDi7NTMKAmoArUZSKMc4T
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Require a container's value_type to match what data() points at

is_contiguous_byte_container accepted any type with a data() returning a
pointer to a single-byte integral plus a size(). That is duck typing: the two
members say nothing about size() counting the units data() points at.

A type where it does not - fixed-size records, say - was routed to the
pointer-based adapter and parsed as [data(), data() + size()) bytes, silently
truncating input the iterator-based adapter had read in full:

    struct record_buffer {
        using value_type = std::array<char, 4>;
        std::string bytes;
        const char* data() const;                        // raw bytes
        std::size_t size() const;                        // in records
        const char* begin() const; const char* end() const;
    };
    json::parse(record_buffer{"[1,2,3,4,5]"});           // parse error at column 3

Requiring the container's own value_type to be that same element type ties the
two together. Every contiguous standard container satisfies it, so std::string,
std::vector<char>, std::array<char, N> and std::string_view keep the fast path;
anything else falls back to the iterator-based adapter, which is always correct.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MXDi7NTMKAmoArUZSKMc4T
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Only compile the simdutf backend from C++17 on

simdutf.h rejects anything below C++17 with an #error, so defining
JSON_USE_SIMDUTF in a C++11 or C++14 translation unit did not fail with a
message about simdutf being unavailable - it failed to compile at all, taking
the library's C++11 support with it. Nothing caught this because no build ever
compiled that path.

Gate the include and both uses on JSON_HAS_CPP_17, the same way number_parse.hpp
gates std::from_chars. Below C++17 the macro now has no effect and the scalar
validator runs; it accepts and rejects exactly the same input, so the macro is
safe to set project-wide even when some translation units use an older standard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MXDi7NTMKAmoArUZSKMc4T
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Test the simdutf backend in CI

JSON_USE_SIMDUTF was documented and shipped but never compiled by anything in
the repository, so nothing held the backend to the behavior the docs promise.

Add JSON_TestSimdutf (OFF by default), which fetches simdutf and defines
JSON_USE_SIMDUTF for every test target, and a ci_test_simdutf target that runs
the whole suite in that configuration. Because simdutf needs C++17, the suite is
built at C++11 as well, so one job covers both the scalar fallback with the
macro defined and simdutf itself.

The dependency hangs off test_main, whose usage requirements every test target
inherits. The library target and the installed CMake package are deliberately
untouched: making nlohmann_json link simdutf would put a find_dependency() in
the exported package, which is a separate decision.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MXDi7NTMKAmoArUZSKMc4T
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Warn when JSON_TestSimdutf cannot reach the simdutf backend

simdutf needs C++17: without it the dependency does not even compile, and with
a C++17 compiler but no C++17-or-later standard under test it builds and then
goes unused. Either way the option silently did nothing useful, or broke the
configure step outright.

Resolve the tested standards first, then check them: when none of them can
reach simdutf, skip the dependency and say so, naming which of the two reasons
applies and how to fix it. The tests then run against the scalar validator,
which is what would have happened anyway.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MXDi7NTMKAmoArUZSKMc4T
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Use record_buffer::data() so clang does not flag it unneeded

The record_buffer test type declares data() and size() so the
is_contiguous_byte_container trait can see both and still reject the
type on its value_type. data() was never called, so clang's
-Wunneeded-member-function (under -Weverything -Werror) failed the
C++20 build. Assert that data() points at the underlying bytes: it
ODR-uses the member and documents the property the type is meant to
demonstrate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XAYM1qhSA2FDaDcGfPW3fG
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Skip the float fast path when it cannot succeed

parse_float_fast() (Clinger) needs a significand below 2^53, so it always
declines once the mantissa has 17 or more significant digits. convert_number()
called it unconditionally, so those numbers were walked an extra time before
strtod had to run anyway. On streaming input, where scanning is byte-at-a-time
and there is no compensating win, that made canada.json about 6% slower than
develop.

Derive the significant-digit count from token_buffer indices - the digits are
not scanned again - and skip the call when it is guaranteed to decline. Both
scanners pass the offset where the mantissa ends; the count only has to be
corrected for a leading "0", which the JSON grammar admits nowhere else. The
integer path returns before the check, so integer-heavy input is unaffected.

Values are unchanged: this only avoids an attempt that would have failed.
Verified bit-exact against develop over every number in canada.json,
floats.json, signed_ints.json, unsigned_ints.json, small_signed_ints.json,
citm_catalog.json and twitter.json, for both the contiguous and the streaming
scanner.

  parse, streaming     develop    before     after
  canada.json           19.4ms    20.5ms    19.3ms
  floats.json          135.9ms   131.8ms   128.0ms

  parse, contiguous    develop    before     after
  canada.json           15.5ms    12.9ms    11.7ms
  floats.json           98.6ms    69.8ms    66.7ms

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-10 17:20:48 +02:00
Niels Lohmann b17c272f46 Reserve capacity in from_json() object conversion when the target container supports it (#5472)
* Reserve capacity in from_json() object conversion when supported

The object-to-container from_json() overload filled the target
container one element at a time without reserving capacity, even
when the target type supports reserve() (e.g. std::unordered_map)
and the number of elements is already known. This caused unnecessary
rehashing while parsing large objects into such containers.

Add a reserve-detecting overload (from_json_object_impl), mirroring
the priority_tag-based SFINAE technique already used by the array
conversion path (from_json_array_impl), so that reserve(size()) is
called up front when available and the loop falls back unchanged
otherwise (e.g. for std::map).

Fixes #5406

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

* Update doc example outputs for new object-conversion iteration order

Reserving capacity in from_json()'s object-conversion path before
inserting elements changes libstdc++'s std::unordered_map bucket
layout, which changes the iteration order used by
get__ValueType_const.cpp, get_to.cpp and operator__ValueType.cpp to
print the elements of a converted std::unordered_map<std::string,
json>. Verified against a clean develop checkout (built with the
same GCC/libstdc++ used in CI) that the old order was produced
without this PR's change and the new order is produced with it, and
that the three affected examples now match their updated expected
output byte-for-byte.

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

* Factor out a reserve-dispatch helper instead of duplicating the object from_json loop

Addresses review feedback from @gregmarr on PR #5472: the emplace loop no
longer needs to exist twice for the reserve/no-reserve cases. A small
from_json_object_reserve() overload pair (SFINAE-dispatched on whether
reserve() exists, mirroring the priority_tag technique used elsewhere)
either calls reserve() or is a no-op; from_json_object_impl() calls it once.

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

* Inline from_json_object_impl into from_json now that it is called only once

Addresses review feedback from @gregmarr on PR #5472: with the reserve
loop de-duplicated, from_json_object_impl no longer needs to be a
separate function that from_json immediately delegates to.

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

---------

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-09 09:54:12 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 8e26b9d4b3 Make contains(json_pointer) return false instead of throwing on unrepresentable array-index tokens (#5495)
contains(const json_pointer&) is documented to never throw, but a purely
numeric reference token that is syntactically a valid array index yet
numerically too large to be represented (exceeding size_type's max, or
exceeding ULLONG_MAX and causing strtoull() to set errno to ERANGE) made
it fall through to array_index(), which throws out_of_range.410/404.

Pre-check the token's magnitude the same way array_index() does, but
return false instead of throwing, mirroring how the surrounding code
already rejects other malformed tokens (leading zero, non-digit
characters, "-") without throwing. operator[]/at() are untouched and
keep throwing for these inputs.

Fixes #5395

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-09 09:53:25 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 8c8d14cb4e Reduce test-suite compile time: extract tiny per-standard test content; drop redundant legacy-comparison CI job (#5481)
* Extract C++17-only content from unit-items.cpp into its own test file

unit-items.cpp is a 1433-line file that was being compiled twice per
CI configuration (once for C++11, once for C++17) purely because it
contained a single, small JSON_HAS_CPP_17-gated SECTION ("structured
bindings", 14 lines). Move that SECTION into a new, dedicated file
(tests/src/unit-items-cpp17.cpp) so only that tiny file needs a
second build; unit-items.cpp itself now builds/tests only once. No
tests/CMakeLists.txt changes are needed since the existing
file(GLOB ... src/unit-*.cpp) plus json_test_add_test_for() already
auto-register and standard-gate any new unit-*.cpp file based on
whether it textually contains JSON_HAS_CPP_<N> (the same mechanism
already used for the existing unit-iterators3.cpp file, which follows
the identical pattern).

Verified with plain clang++ under -std=c++11/14/17/20 and via a local
CMake configure+build that:
- unit-items.cpp now only produces a test-items_cpp11 target (the
  former test-items_cpp17 target is gone) and its assertion/test-case
  counts are unchanged (2 test cases / 222 assertions) for every
  standard.
- The new unit-items-cpp17.cpp produces test-items-cpp17_cpp11 (an
  intentionally empty translation unit under C++11 that reports 0
  tests, 0 assertions, SUCCESS) and test-items-cpp17_cpp17 (1 test
  case / 1 assertion, identical to what "structured bindings" ran
  as before it was moved).

Separately, unit-regression1.cpp (1530 lines) was also being built
twice per CI configuration because it contained the substring
JSON_HAS_CPP_17 -- but on inspection this was dead code: an orphaned
"#ifdef JSON_HAS_CPP_17 / #include <variant> / #endif" left over from
when the actual std::variant-based regression test (issue #1292) was
relocated to unit-regression2.cpp. Nothing in unit-regression1.cpp
uses <variant>, so there is no SECTION/TEST_CASE to preserve here;
the dead include is simply removed. This was verified by grepping the
file for any other use of "variant" (none) and confirming issue #1292
is still covered by unit-regression2.cpp. Compiled and ran under
-std=c++11/14/17/20 and via CMake: unit-regression1.cpp now only
produces a test-regression1_cpp11 target (test-regression1_cpp17 is
gone) with an unchanged test-case count (3) under every standard.

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

* Fix astyle indentation of #include inside #ifdef in unit-items-cpp17.cpp

This repo's astyle style keeps preprocessor directives at column 0
even inside #ifdef blocks. The new tests/src/unit-items-cpp17.cpp
had its #include <map>/#include <string> indented, which made the
'check' CI job's amalgamation/formatting diff non-empty and failed
the aggregate check.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-09 09:52:58 +02:00
Niels Lohmann d22c5c7641 Add test coverage for documented lenient BSON input handling (#5478)
* Add test coverage for documented lenient BSON input handling

Issue #5333 documented three intentionally-lenient behaviors of the BSON
reader (any non-zero byte accepted as a boolean `true`, BSON array element
keys not validated against the required decimal sequence, and the payload
of binary subtype 0x02 "old binary" returned as-is including its inner
length prefix), but none of them was pinned by a test, so a future change
could silently regress the documented behavior.

Also add coverage for the out_of_range.412 length-overflow check
(shared by binary, string, and (sub-)document BSON length fields) for
the string and document cases; only the binary case was previously
tested.

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

* Fix 32-bit overflow in huge_string_t BSON length-overflow tests

huge_string_t doubles as basic_json's StringType, so it is used not only
for the JSON string value under test but also for object keys (e.g. "s",
"nested"). Making size() unconditionally lie about being huge therefore
inflated the keys' reported sizes as well, pushing the running totals
computed while walking the BSON document (calc_bson_object_size and
friends in binary_writer.hpp) past what a 32-bit std::size_t can hold.

On 64-bit platforms this happens to still produce a working (if
needlessly large) result, but on 32-bit platforms (e.g. the mingw x86 CI
job) the size_t arithmetic silently wraps around: for the "document" test
this merely surfaces the wrong number in the exception message, but for
the "string" test the wrapped total happens to fall back under
INT32_MAX, so the intended out_of_range.412 guard is skipped entirely and
the code goes on to actually write ~2 GiB worth of characters from the
key's real, tiny buffer - which is what raised the reported
"vector::_M_range_insert" exception instead of a controlled 412.

Make the fake-huge size opt-in via huge_string_t::as_huge() and only
apply it to the string value under test, leaving keys at their real
(small) size. This keeps every intermediate size well within 32-bit
size_t range on any platform, matching how huge_binary_t already avoids
the same trap (it is only ever used as the BSON value type, never as a
key). Expected out_of_range.412 messages are updated accordingly.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-09 09:52:23 +02:00
Niels Lohmann c9f1d2d646 Broaden JSON_HEDLEY_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT coverage to pure query functions (#5477)
* Broaden JSON_HEDLEY_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT coverage to pure query functions

Add JSON_HEDLEY_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT to the unambiguous, const,
side-effect-free observer functions whose return value is the entire
purpose of the call:

- dump()
- type(), type_name()
- all is_* predicates (is_primitive, is_structured, is_null,
  is_boolean, is_number, is_number_integer, is_number_unsigned,
  is_number_float, is_object, is_array, is_string, is_binary,
  is_discarded)
- empty(), size(), max_size()
- count(...) (both overloads) and contains(...) (all overloads,
  including the deprecated json_pointer<BasicJsonType> overload)

This mirrors the direction the standard library has taken with
[[nodiscard]] on the analogous std::vector/std::map members, and
catches real bugs such as `j.empty();` (meant `j.clear();`) or
`j.contains(k);` with the result thrown away.

Deliberately out of scope (left for a separate, later policy
decision, per the issue): at(), value(), get*(), flatten(),
unflatten(), patch(), merge_patch(), begin()/end(), comparison
operators, erase(), and emplace().

Compiling the full test suite (tests/src/unit-*.cpp) with
-Wunused-result -Werror uncovered one real hit: a regression test in
unit-regression2.cpp called dump() purely to check it does not throw,
discarding the result. Fixed by explicitly casting to void, since the
call is intentionally result-less there.

Fixes #5410

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

* Fix discarded nodiscard results across the test suite for GCC's warn_unused_result

A plain (void) cast on a call expression suppresses the C++17 [[nodiscard]]
warning but not GCC's warning for functions annotated via the GNU
__attribute__((warn_unused_result)) form -- which is what
JSON_HEDLEY_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT expands to on GCC. Several existing tests
that call a newly-annotated function (dump(), empty()) purely to check
that it throws/does not throw, discarding the result via (void), newly
warned (and failed -Werror builds) once the annotation was broadened.
Route those discards through a small ignore_return_value() helper
instead, which actually consumes the value and suppresses the warning
on both attribute forms.

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

* Use utils::ignore_return_value() for the issue #1445 dump() discard too

Addresses review feedback from @gregmarr on PR #5477: this call site was
still using the older "capture in a variable, then (void) it" pattern
from before this PR introduced utils::ignore_return_value(), instead of
the helper now used at every other discarded-nodiscard-result call site
this PR touches.

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

---------

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-09 09:50:39 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 8c38e270b5 Reject JSON Patch move when from is a proper prefix of path (#5497)
* Reject JSON Patch move when from is a proper prefix of path

RFC 6902 (section 4.4) forbids "from" from being a proper prefix of
"path" for a "move" operation: "a location cannot be moved into one
of its children." "move" is implemented as remove-then-add with no
check for this. For object targets, the subsequent "add" happened to
throw as a side effect of resolving through the now-removed parent,
but for array targets, removing the "from" element shifts subsequent
indices, so "path" silently re-resolves to a different element and
the operation "succeeds" with a silently corrupted document.

Add a check, before performing the remove/add, for whether "from" is
a proper prefix of "path" at the reference-token level. This compares
json_pointer's already-unescaped reference_tokens vectors (basic_json
is a friend of json_pointer) rather than the raw pointer strings, so
that tokens containing escaped '/' or '~' characters are compared
correctly, and a token that merely looks like a string prefix (e.g.
"/ab" vs "/abc/x") is not mistaken for a pointer-token prefix. When
"from" is a proper prefix of "path", throw out_of_range.414.

Fixes #5397.

Stacked on top of the fix for #5396 (branch
issue-5396-patch-remove-primitive-parent), since both touch the same
patch_inplace move/remove handling in include/nlohmann/json.hpp.

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

* Add root-pointer and array-append-token edge case tests for the move prefix check

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

* Replace std::equal with an explicitly-bounded loop in the move prefix check

The three-iterator std::equal(first1, last1, first2) form has no
explicit end iterator for the second range, which a static analyzer
(Flawfinder, CWE-126) flags as a potential over-read even though the
preceding size comparison already guarantees the second range is long
enough. Rather than argue the point, make the bound visible in the code
itself via an explicit loop -- every access to ptr.reference_tokens is
now guarded by the same index the loop condition bounds against
from_size.

(The C++14 four-iterator std::equal(first1, last1, first2, last2) form
was tried first as a more minimal fix, but this codebase targets C++11
and that overload is not safely usable under -std=c++11 with all
supported standard library implementations.)

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

* Extract the move prefix check into a named helper lambda

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

* Account for JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS in the move-prefix-check error messages

out_of_range::create() includes a "(bytes X-Y)" position annotation when
JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS is enabled, which the ci_test_diagnostic_positions
CI job builds the whole suite with. The five new out_of_range.414
assertions only checked the annotation-free message. Confirmed
JSON_DIAGNOSTICS produces the same (annotation-free) message as the
default build for this particular throw site (its path-based annotation
is empty at the root, where &result always points here), so only two
message variants are needed, not three.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-09 09:49:12 +02:00
Niels Lohmann c9477ccf91 Throw when JSON Patch remove's target path resolves through a primitive or null parent (#5496)
RFC 6902 (section 4.2) requires the target location of a "remove"
operation to exist. operation_remove handled parent.is_object() and
parent.is_array(), but had no final else branch: when the resolved
parent was a primitive value or null, neither branch matched and the
operation silently did nothing instead of failing.

Add the missing else branch, throwing out_of_range.413 with wording
that matches the existing out_of_range.411 thrown by the analogous
"add" case (operation_add) for the same kind of invalid parent.

Fixes #5396.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-09 09:49:12 +02:00
Niels Lohmann c05347dd54 Undefine the four JSON_HEDLEY_* macros that leak after including json.hpp (#5475)
* Undefine the four JSON_HEDLEY_* macros that leak after including json.hpp

include/nlohmann/detail/macro_unscope.hpp includes hedley_undef.hpp to
#undef every JSON_HEDLEY_* macro so none of them leak into the including
translation unit. Four macros were missing from that list and therefore
stayed defined after #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>:

- JSON_HEDLEY_PRAGMA
- JSON_HEDLEY_PREDICT_TRUE
- JSON_HEDLEY_PREDICT_FALSE
- JSON_HEDLEY_CLANG_HAS_DECLSPEC_ATTRIBUTE

hedley_undef.hpp is generated (via `make update_hedley`) by grepping
hedley.hpp for its own internal `#undef JSON_HEDLEY_X` redefinition
guards. JSON_HEDLEY_PRAGMA/PREDICT_TRUE/PREDICT_FALSE have no such guard
in upstream Hedley, so they were never picked up. The guard for
JSON_HEDLEY_CLANG_HAS_DECLSPEC_ATTRIBUTE also has an upstream typo
(`JSON_HEDLEY_CLANG_HAS_DECLSPEC_DECLSPEC_ATTRIBUTE`), so hedley_undef.hpp
was undefining the wrong (never-defined) name.

Fixes:
- include/nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley_undef.hpp: corrected the
  DECLSPEC_ATTRIBUTE typo and added the three missing #undef lines,
  keeping the file's alphabetical ordering.
- Makefile (update_hedley target): changed hedley_undef.hpp generation to
  extract macro names directly from every `#define JSON_HEDLEY_...` in
  hedley.hpp instead of from existing `#undef` guards, so a future
  `make update_hedley` run undefines every macro Hedley actually defines,
  even ones without a pre-existing redefinition guard. This was not run
  in this PR (it would also pull in an unrelated upstream Hedley sync);
  hedley_undef.hpp was hand-patched instead and single_include was
  regenerated with `make amalgamate`.
- tests/src/unit-no-macro-leak.cpp: new regression test (picked up
  automatically by tests/CMakeLists.txt's existing unit-*.cpp glob) that
  includes json.hpp and then #ifdef/#error-checks every JSON_HEDLEY_*
  macro name, so any future leak of any of the 151 vendored macros fails
  the build, not just the four fixed here.

Fixes #5408.

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

* Derive the JSON_HEDLEY_* leak-check test from hedley.hpp at build time

tests/src/unit-no-macro-leak.cpp previously hardcoded a static list of
~151 #ifdef/#error checks, one per JSON_HEDLEY_* macro name known at the
time it was written. That list would silently go stale the next time
`make update_hedley` pulls in a vendor update that adds, removes, or
renames a macro, since nothing would force it to be regenerated.

Add cmake/scripts/gen_hedley_undef_check.cmake, which derives the full
list of JSON_HEDLEY_* macro names directly from
include/nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley.hpp:

- tests/CMakeLists.txt uses it (MODE=checks) to (re)generate
  hedley_undef_checks.inc at configure and build time, and wires the
  generating custom target as a dependency of the test-no-macro-leak_cpp*
  targets so it can never build against a stale copy. unit-no-macro-leak.cpp
  now just #include-s the generated file inside its TEST_CASE instead of
  carrying the checks itself.
- The Makefile's `update_hedley` target now delegates hedley_undef.hpp
  generation to the same script (MODE=undef, new `update_hedley_undef`
  target), so the vendored header, the generated #undef list, and the
  generated test checks are all derived from the same extraction logic and
  cannot drift apart.

This mirrors the approach taken independently in #5415 for the same
issue (#5408), credited there to a self-regenerating mechanism that
"can never drift again" -- ported into this branch instead of the
static list originally proposed here.

Verified with a local CMake configure + build + ctest, both against
include/ (JSON_MultipleHeaders=ON) and against the amalgamated
single_include/nlohmann/json.hpp (JSON_MultipleHeaders=OFF), and by
temporarily deleting a #undef line from hedley_undef.hpp to confirm the
generated test actually fails on a real leak.

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

* Fix REUSE compliance failure in gen_hedley_undef_check.cmake

The generated file's embedded banner contains the literal text
'SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT' as part of the *content* being written
to hedley_undef.hpp, not as this .cmake script's own REUSE header (it
is already covered by the blanket 'Files: *' rule in .reuse/dep5).

The reuse tool matched that embedded line as an SPDX tag for the
script itself and failed to parse the trailing 'MIT\n")' as a valid
SPDX License Expression, breaking ci_reuse_compliance. Wrap the
embedded banner in REUSE-IgnoreStart/REUSE-IgnoreEnd comments, as
recommended by the tool's own diagnostic output.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-09 09:48:17 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 6d86cc0f6b Speed up whitespace skipping in the lexer (#5490)
* Speed up whitespace skipping in the lexer

lexer::skip_whitespace() called get() for every whitespace byte, and
get() checks the (almost always false, once past the first character)
next_unget flag on every call. skip_whitespace() now reads its first
character with get() (needed to honor a pending unget() left over from
finishing the previous token, e.g. scan_number() always ungets the
character that terminated the number) and every further whitespace
character with a new get_ignoring_pending_unget() variant that skips
that branch, since nothing in the loop calls unget().

This is a narrower fix than the full contiguous-buffer bulk-skip
suggested in the issue (scan a run of whitespace directly in the
adapter's buffer and update position counters once per run). That
approach depends on bulk-scan adapter infrastructure
(supports_bulk_scan/bulk_data()/bulk_skip()) introduced by the open,
unmerged parser-performance PR #5283, which this change intentionally
does not depend on or replicate. Building new bulk-scan adapter
infrastructure from scratch was judged out of scope/riskier than
warranted here, so this change is limited to the safe, always-correct
improvement of removing redundant per-character bookkeeping from the
existing byte-at-a-time loop; full bulk-skipping is left as future
work once #5283 (or equivalent adapter support) lands.

Line/column/byte-offset bookkeeping is untouched and verified
bit-for-bit identical before and after this change, including for
pretty-printed (dump(4)) input with embedded newlines.

Fixes #5412

Stacked on top of the PR for #5411 (branch
issue-5411-lexer-skip-conversion).

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

* Fix codegen regression in skip_whitespace() from #5490

Benchmarking found the get()/get_ignoring_pending_unget() split in
skip_whitespace() made long whitespace runs (e.g. indentation in
pretty-printed JSON) 1.75x-3.2x SLOWER instead of faster, reproducible
with both Apple Clang and GCC.

Root cause: rewriting the loop from a plain do-while into an initial
get() followed by a while-loop defeated the compiler's ability to keep
the input adapter's read/end pointers in registers across iterations;
both compilers instead reloaded them from memory on every character.
The function split itself was not the problem (it still fully
inlines); the loop's control-flow shape was.

The fix keeps the same two-function structure but restores a
do-while shape (guarded by an if for the "first char not whitespace"
case), which lets both compilers hoist the pointers back into
registers, matching or beating pre-#5490 performance.

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

* Share the position-counter bump between get() and get_ignoring_pending_unget()

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

* Extract current_is_whitespace() to deduplicate skip_whitespace()'s two whitespace checks

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

* Use a raw string literal for the multi-line error-position test input

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

* Fix clang-tidy raw-string-literal finding and guard a new test against JSON_NOEXCEPTION

The issue #5412 whitespace-skipping test added a check_error() helper that
relies on catching json::parse_error to verify the exception message; under
JSON_NOEXCEPTION, JSON_THROW aborts instead of throwing, which crashed
ci_test_noexceptions (and cascaded into the other ci_cmake_options jobs).
Guard the whole section with #if !defined(JSON_NOEXCEPTION), matching the
existing pattern used by sibling tests in this file.

Also switch one escaped string literal to a raw string literal to satisfy
clang-tidy's modernize-raw-string-literal check.

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

---------

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-09 09:46:26 +02:00
Niels Lohmann faa35cc647 Skip integer conversion in accept()/SAX validation when the value is unused (#5484)
* Skip integer conversion in accept()/SAX validation when the value is unused

lexer::scan_number() always converted every numeric token with
strtoull()/strtoll() before returning, even though accept() (and any
consumer using json_sax_acceptor) immediately discards the converted
value. For value_unsigned/value_integer tokens whose digit count
already guarantees the value fits into 64 bits, the conversion cannot
change the accept/reject decision (such tokens are always finite and
unconditionally accepted), so scan_number() can skip strtoull()/
strtoll() entirely in that case when the caller signals it does not
need the value. Numbers with more digits keep using the exact,
unmodified conversion path, so overflow reclassification to
value_float (and the finiteness check on it) is unaffected.

parse() and value_float handling are completely unchanged.

Fixes #5411

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

* Document why the digit-count fast path is safe regardless of number_unsigned_t/number_integer_t width

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

* Avoid temporary-string concatenation flagged by clang-tidy in the differential test

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

---------

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-09 09:46:26 +02:00
Qatadaha Bin Matloob 09b6b6b5ba Fix to_bjdata() emitting unparsable output when _ArraySize_ is not an array (#5455)
* Fix to_bjdata() emitting unparsable output when _ArraySize_ is not an array

write_bjdata_ndarray() never checked that _ArraySize_ is an array. The shape
is written verbatim as the header length, so a null shape emitted 'Z' and an
object shape emitted '{' after the '#', neither of which from_bjdata()
accepts, and the round-trip guarantee in the BJData docs was broken.

Both slipped through the existing validation: for null, empty() is true so
the element count starts at 0 and the per-dimension loop never runs, and for
an object the loop walks its values, which can satisfy the non-negative
integer check. When _ArrayData_ then matched that count, the writer took the
ndarray path.

Require the shape to be an array, so anything else falls back to a plain
object encoding that round-trips, as the fallback rule in the docs already
specifies.

Signed-off-by: qatcod <79017227+qatcod@users.noreply.github.com>

* Document that _ArraySize_ must be an array in the ndarray requirements

The list at bjdata.md is the exhaustive set of conditions for the ndarray
encoding, but it only implied this one through 'every entry of'.

Signed-off-by: qatcod <79017227+qatcod@users.noreply.github.com>

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Signed-off-by: qatcod <79017227+qatcod@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-05 20:30:22 +02:00
Avionic Harshit 3c875683a5 Make diff() linear when an array shrinks (#5461)
Signed-off-by: avionicharshit-byte <harshitavionic@gmail.com>
2026-09-05 09:52:53 +02:00
Qatadaha Bin Matloob 137a40b9aa Compare integers with floats exactly instead of widening the integer (#5459)
The mixed number arms of JSON_IMPLEMENT_OPERATOR cast the integer to
number_float_t before comparing. Past the float's mantissa that cast is lossy:
2^63-2 and 2^63-1 both round to 2^63, so each compares equal to that float
while differing from each other. Equality is therefore intransitive and the
ordering is not a strict weak ordering, which makes std::sort over such values,
or using them as keys in std::set or std::map, undefined behavior.

Compare the two exactly instead. The integer's range is a power of two the
float represents exactly, so a float outside it is ordered by magnitude alone;
inside it, truncating the float is exact, and the integer parts and then any
fractional part decide. The helper hands back a pair whose comparison with the
original operator reproduces that ordering, which keeps every operator's return
type as it was, including partial_ordering for the spaceship.

A NaN operand is returned in both members, so NaN stays false for the
relational operators and unordered for <=>. Values a float represents exactly
still compare equal, so json(1) == json(1.0) is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: qatcod <79017227+qatcod@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-05 09:43:07 +02:00
elix3r 35705d79d8 Fix update(merge_objects=true) throwing on primitive-to-object merge (#5414)
When merge_objects is true, recurse only if the existing value is an
object. Otherwise overwrite, matching the documented "all other values
are overwritten as usual" behavior.

Fixes #5402

Signed-off-by: elix3r <157088510+22elix3r@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-28 13:38:28 +01:00
Krishnanand G 2f025f401e Throw other_error.502 when UBJSON use_type is set without use_size (#5380)
* Throw other_error.502 when UBJSON use_type is set without use_size

Fixes #5321

Signed-off-by: Krishnanand G <118352827+Krishnanand-G@users.noreply.github.com>

* Scope UBJSON use_type check to container branches and expand tests

Signed-off-by: Krishnanand G <118352827+Krishnanand-G@users.noreply.github.com>

* Re-amalgamate single_include/json.hpp

The previous commit updated the split headers but the amalgamated
file didn't go back through astyle before I committed it, so CI's
amalgamation check caught formatting drift in json_fwd.hpp and a
few noexcept clauses in basic_json, plus one doc example. None of
it touches the UBJSON logic. Applied the patch CI generated to
bring single_include back in sync.

Signed-off-by: Krishnanand G <118352827+Krishnanand-G@users.noreply.github.com>

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Signed-off-by: Krishnanand G <118352827+Krishnanand-G@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-25 07:16:10 +01:00
Sahil_Kamate b5378e8deb Fix CBOR tag handlers not recognizing tags 0-5 and 21-23 (#5331)
* Fix CBOR tag handlers not recognizing tags 0-5 and 21-23

The tagged-item switch in binary_reader::parse_cbor_internal() only handled
head bytes 0xC6-0xD4 and 0xD8-0xDB. Bytes 0xC0-0xC5 (tags 0-5: date/time,
epoch, bignum, decimal, bigfloat) and 0xD5-0xD7 (tags 21-23: base64url,
base64, base16 conversion hints) fell through to the default case and were
reported as invalid bytes, even under cbor_tag_handler_t::ignore and ::store,
despite being valid CBOR major-type-6 tags per RFC 8949.

Add the missing case labels so the full 0xC0-0xDB range is handled
uniformly. Extend the "Tagged values" test in unit-cbor.cpp to cover
0xC0-0xD7, and update the CBOR docs to state the corrected tag range.

Fixes #5315

Signed-off-by: sahilkamate03 <45514385+sahilkamate03@users.noreply.github.com>

* Fix stale CBOR tag docs and add store-mode binary-payload test

The "Incomplete mapping" warning still listed tags 0-5 (date/time,
bignum, decimal fraction, bigfloat) and 21-23 (expected conversions)
as unsupported, even though they now parse correctly under
cbor_tag_handler_t::ignore/store, same as 0xC6..0xD4/0xD8..0xDB.
Remove those five bullets and cross-reference the "Tagged items"
warning below, matching the equivalent docs fix landed independently
in PR #5367.

Also add a cbor_tag_handler_t::store test that wraps a binary
payload (not just a string) for every byte in 0xC0..0xD7, confirming
these tags are unwrapped the same way as 0xC6..0xD4 rather than
mistaken for the 0xD8..0xDB binary-subtype marker syntax, per review
feedback on #5331.

Signed-off-by: sahilkamate03 <45514385+sahilkamate03@users.noreply.github.com>

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Signed-off-by: sahilkamate03 <45514385+sahilkamate03@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-19 20:19:47 +02:00
ljcjclljc 6285225fd0 Fix integer comparison bug (#5211)
* Fix integer comparison bug

Signed-off-by: ljccjlljc <939159710@qq.com>

* commit

Signed-off-by: ljccjlljc <939159710@qq.com>

* Remove generated CI artifacts and update amalgamation

Signed-off-by: ljccjlljc <939159710@qq.com>

* Silence cpplint braces warning in comparison macro

Signed-off-by: ljccjlljc <939159710@qq.com>

* Update amalgamation after cpplint fix

Signed-off-by: ljccjlljc <939159710@qq.com>

* Add mixed signed and unsigned comparison regression test

Signed-off-by: ljccjlljc <939159710@qq.com>

* Clarify mixed signed and unsigned comparison handling

Signed-off-by: ljccjlljc <939159710@qq.com>

* Expand mixed signed and unsigned comparison tests

Signed-off-by: ljccjlljc <939159710@qq.com>

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Signed-off-by: ljccjlljc <939159710@qq.com>
2026-08-12 09:21:19 +02:00
Niels Lohmann bacdabd176 Fix start_pos() for strings containing escape sequences (#5361)
The diagnostic position of a string value was derived by subtracting the
parsed value's length from the end position. Escape sequences make the
source token longer than the value it parses to, so the reported start
position landed inside the string, one byte off per escape sequence:

    input: {"a":"\n\n\n\n\n\n"}
      start_pos() == 11, so the reported range covered  n\n\n\n"
      instead of the documented "\n\n\n\n\n\n"

This contradicts the documented behavior of start_pos(), which is the
position of the opening quote, and it also corrupted the "(bytes N-M)"
part of JSON_DIAGNOSTICS exception messages. Strings with multi-byte
UTF-8 but no escapes were unaffected, which is why this went unnoticed.

Record the offset of the token in the lexer when it starts scanning and
use that, instead of reconstructing it from the parsed value. Booleans,
null and numbers already reported correct positions and are unchanged.

The new lexer member and accessor are compiled only when
JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS is enabled, which is already part of the ABI
tag, so the default build is unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-08-05 16:01:23 +02:00
Niels Lohmann d5647e6a3b Resolve the TODO(niels) in get_ubjson_string (#5355)
The comment asked whether the no-op marker 'N' may be ignored when a
string is read. It may not: at that point the next byte must be a string
length type specification, and 'N' is not one. No-ops at positions where
a value may start are already consumed by the callers through
get_ignore_noop(), so nothing is lost by not skipping them here.

Replace the TODO with a comment stating that, and add regression tests
pinning both directions: a no-op is accepted at top level (also
repeated), before and after an array element, and before an object key,
between key and value, and before the closing brace of an object of
unknown size; it is rejected where a length type specification is
expected, i.e. after the 'S' marker of a string value and as the key
length of an object of known size.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-08-05 14:47:40 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 9a091d2b82 Do not write BJData ndarrays whose size overflows std::size_t (#5362)
* Do not write BJData ndarrays whose size overflows std::size_t

write_bjdata_ndarray() multiplied the _ArraySize_ dimensions into a
std::size_t without checking for overflow. A product that wraps around
to a value that happens to match the size of _ArrayData_ passed the
length check, and the writer emitted an ndarray header announcing an
element count that cannot be represented:

    {"_ArrayType_":"uint8","_ArraySize_":[9223372036854775808,2],"_ArrayData_":[]}

was encoded as 5b 24 55 23 5b 4d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 69 02 5d, an
ndarray of 2^64 elements followed by no data. Reading that back throws
out_of_range.408 ("excessive ndarray size caused overflow"), so to_bjdata
produced output that from_bjdata rejects. This is reachable by parsing
untrusted JSON and re-encoding it as BJData.

Mirror the overflow check the binary reader already performs, and also
reject a single dimension that does not fit into std::size_t, which the
previous cast silently truncated where std::size_t is narrower than 64
bits. Such objects now fall back to a plain object encoding, which is
what the surrounding type and length validation already does for
annotations it cannot represent, and they round-trip unchanged.

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

* Document when to_bjdata converts a JData annotation to an ND-array

The BJData page described the 1-D vector case as the only situation in
which an object carrying _ArrayType_/_ArraySize_/_ArrayData_ is not
written as a compact ND-array. The writer has always had several other
fallbacks -- an unknown _ArrayType_, a dimension that is not a
non-negative integer, an _ArrayData_ whose length does not match the
product of the dimensions, and elements that are not numbers of the
annotated kind -- all of which cause the value to be serialized as a
regular JSON object instead.

Spell out the conditions, including the size-overflow check added in the
preceding commit, so the documented behavior matches the implementation.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-08-05 13:44:15 +02:00
Angadi56 dca9d49a33 reject out-of-range code points in UTF-32 wide-string input (#5348)
* reject out-of-range code points in UTF-32 wide-string input

Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>

* remove useless cast to char_traits<char>::int_type

Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>

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Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>
2026-08-05 13:43:36 +02:00
Angadi56 68f0722a19 remove discarded array from parent object in end_array (#5342)
* remove discarded array from parent object in end_array

Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>

* remove discarded scalar value from parent object in handle_value

Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>

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Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>
2026-08-03 19:13:31 +02:00
Angadi56 5f121d8c50 avoid sign extension in char_traits<signed char>::to_int_type (#5336)
* avoid sign extension in char_traits<signed char>::to_int_type

Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>

* spell out-of-range signed char constants as negative values (MSVC C4309)

Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>

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Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>
2026-08-03 08:35:53 +02:00
tomatotomata 2222d386c9 fix: check CBOR tagged subtype reads (#5339) 2026-07-31 22:06:55 +02:00
Angadi56 d94cbd99dc reject CBOR array/map length equal to the indefinite-length marker (#5274)
* reject CBOR array/map length equal to the indefinite-length marker

Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>

* reject CBOR lengths that do not fit in std::size_t via value_in_range_of

Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>

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Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>
2026-07-31 18:04:30 +02:00
hum4nBeingandAJ369ninja bc48951128 Fix UBJSON high-precision floating-point overflow handling (#5323)
This adds a std::isfinite check to the UBJSON floating-point parsing path, throwing out_of_range.406 on overflow. This makes the UBJSON parser's behavior consistent with the normal JSON parser. Fixes #5322.

Signed-off-by: AJ369ninja <abhishek.j@iitg.ac.in>
Co-authored-by: AJ369ninja <abhishek.j@iitg.ac.in>
2026-07-31 18:04:13 +02:00
Angadi56 fd72ecfc8c validate ndarray element types in write_bjdata_ndarray (#5301)
* validate ndarray element types in write_bjdata_ndarray

Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>

* read ndarray elements through get<> instead of a fixed union member

_ArrayType_ names the wire type, not how the value is stored: parsing
keeps a non-negative integer as number_unsigned while the C++ API keeps
an int literal as number_integer. Selecting the union member from the
type marker therefore reads the inactive alternative for one of the two,
so read through get<> instead, which dispatches on the active member.

Also reject a negative _ArraySize_ entry, which is not a usable
dimension, and cover the parse-built path in the tests.

Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>

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Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>
2026-07-31 08:52:27 +02:00
YingqiDuan de8a099ba5 Document BSON interoperability and subtype-less binary round trips (#5330)
- warn about BSON marker 0x11 interoperability in both directions
- explain subtype-less binary normalization to subtype 0x00
- add a round-trip test for binary values without a subtype

Signed-off-by: YingqiDuan <141370165+YingqiDuan@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-31 08:33:07 +02:00
Yash Bavadiya dd24e2dffd check all BSON reads and add an EOF check for booleans (#5332)
Signed-off-by: Yash Bavadiya <krbavadiya11@gmail.com>
2026-07-30 23:44:31 +02:00
Patrick10199 868506dcc0 Fix CBOR half-float assertion bounds (#5335)
Signed-off-by: Patrick Armstrong <patrick@erpassistant.ai>
2026-07-30 23:38:13 +02:00
Luke Banicevic 2e23687092 to_bson() silently emits corrupt documents when a length exceeds INT32_MAX (#5314) 2026-07-28 09:08:57 +00:00
Angadi56 9a3ebb9456 validate BSON document size against the bytes read (#5287) 2026-07-23 19:51:40 +00:00
Angadi56 3565f40229 reject negative UBJSON/BJData string length (#5284) 2026-07-20 20:32:38 +00:00
Angadi56 1c5a953de5 reject unpaired UTF-16 surrogates in wide-string input (#5276) 2026-07-19 18:33:42 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 722c03495f Extend std::optional null regression coverage (assignment, get_to) (#5269) 2026-07-12 09:16:25 +02:00
Niels Lohmann c197feff81 Extend memcpy fast path to sized sentinels (e.g. std::counted_iterator) (#5268) 2026-07-12 09:16:06 +02:00
Niels Lohmann ca76c37650 Add iterator+sentinel tests and docs for binary deserializers (#5265)
* Add iterator+sentinel tests and docs for binary deserializers

This commit extends the C++20 ranges support (iterator+sentinel pairs) to the
binary format deserializers from_cbor, from_msgpack, from_ubjson, from_bjdata,
and from_bson, matching what was already done for parse(), accept(), and
sax_parse().

Changes:
- Add istreambuf_sentinel helper to test_utils.hpp for EOF detection in tests
- Add 5 new test cases that read binary files directly via
  std::istreambuf_iterator<char> + sentinel, without pre-buffering
- Update documentation for all 5 from_* functions to document overload (3)
  with SentinelType parameter
- All tests pass; verified against existing test suite data
- Fix potential buffer over-read warning in heterogeneous iterator test

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

* Merge iterator+sentinel overloads and fix ambiguity/CI issues

Address PR review feedback and CI failures:

- Merge the separate same-type and sentinel-type iterator overloads of
  parse(), accept(), sax_parse(), and the five from_* binary deserializers
  into a single overload with SentinelType defaulted to IteratorType,
  as suggested in review. Applied the same simplification to the
  detail::input_adapter() free functions.
- Fix a latent ambiguity: some compilers (e.g. GCC 4.8) unreliably SFINAE
  the operator!= detection for std::nullptr_t against container/string
  types, making calls like parse(s, nullptr, ...) ambiguous with the
  compatible-input overload. can_compare_ne now explicitly excludes
  std::nullptr_t as a SentinelType.
- Use a named enable_if_t template parameter instead of an unnamed
  function parameter for the SFINAE guard, fixing a clang-tidy
  hicpp-named-parameter/readability-named-parameter failure.
- Update parse.md, accept.md, sax_parse.md, and the five from_*.md pages
  to document the merged overload instead of separate (2)/(3) overloads,
  also fixing an over-160-char line that broke the documentation
  style_check CI job.
- Rework the BSON iterator+sentinel test to parse a BSON file already
  present in the test suite instead of writing/deleting a temp file.

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

* Fix -Wunneeded-internal-declaration for CustomSentinel in test

CustomSentinel lives in an anonymous namespace (internal linkage), and
the library's parse loop only ever evaluates the iterator-first
direction (it != last), so the reversed-order friend operator!= was
never referenced. Clang's -Weverything flags such unused internal
declarations as an error. Drop the unused overload; the used direction
is enough to satisfy can_compare_ne's either-order detection.

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

* Fix clang-tidy hicpp-named-parameter and misc-const-correctness

- Drop the unused reversed-order operator!= overload from
  utils::istreambuf_sentinel (only iterator != sentinel is ever
  evaluated) and name the remaining friend's sentinel parameter, fixing
  hicpp-named-parameter/readability-named-parameter.
- Mark the istreambuf_iterator first/last helper variable const in the
  five binary-format sentinel tests, fixing misc-const-correctness.

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

* Fix clang-tidy misc-const-correctness in heterogeneous sentinel test

json_str is only read via .data()/.size() and never reassigned, so
clang-tidy correctly flags it as const-able. Verified against the exact
CI job (silkeh/clang:dev, ci_clang_tidy target) by running clang-tidy
directly on this file plus the five binary-format sentinel tests
touched by prior commits; all are now clean.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-07-11 15:09:28 +02:00
Niels Lohmann fe2bcc080f Custom BinaryType direct assignment (#5266)
* Fix discussion #4209: custom BinaryType direct assignment and extraction

When a custom BinaryType is configured (other than the default std::vector<uint8_t>),
users can now:
1. Assign values of that type directly to create binary values (not arrays)
2. Extract binary values back to that type with get<>()
3. Extract arrays to that type (for backward compatibility)

Implementation:
- Add is_compatible_binary_type trait to centralize SFINAE condition
- Update to_json to accept custom BinaryType values directly
- Update from_json to handle both binary and array inputs for custom BinaryType
- Add #include <vector> with IWYU comment to from_json.hpp
- Add comprehensive tests for assignment and array extraction
- Update binary_t documentation with example

This is purely additive and invisible to the default nlohmann::json alias, which
continues to treat std::vector<uint8_t> as arrays.

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

* Fix CI: missing include and const-correctness

- Add #include <vector> to type_traits.hpp for the new
  is_compatible_binary_type trait's std::vector<std::uint8_t> reference
  (caught by cpplint's include-what-you-use check)
- Mark test-local json variables const where never reassigned
  (caught by clang-tidy's misc-const-correctness check)

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-07-11 15:09:05 +02:00
Federico Sfriso c60217e801 fix: support constructing json from C++20 range views (#4916) (#5205) 2026-07-11 09:13:04 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 6ba332c7df Migrate remaining CI jobs off custom json-ci image to official images (#5263)
* Migrate ci_icpc/ci_test_compilers_gcc_old/ci_infer off custom json-ci image

Replaces the last three consumers of ghcr.io/nlohmann/json-ci with official
images: ci_icpc now uses Intel's own intel/oneapi-hpckit:2023.2.1-devel-ubuntu22.04
(the last release with classic icc/icpc before Intel dropped it in oneAPI
2024.0), ci_test_compilers_gcc_old installs old GCCs on official ubuntu:20.04
via the same PPA/archive setup the custom image used (working around
actions/checkout's incompatibility with official gcc:4/5/6 images), and
ci_infer runs directly on ubuntu-latest, fetching Facebook's official Infer
release tarball inline instead of a maintained image. No job in
ubuntu.yml references the custom image anymore.

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

* Update quality-assurance compiler table for CI image migration

Reflects the ci_icpc/ci_test_compilers_gcc_old container migration: the
old-GCC jobs (4.8/4.9/5/6) now compile inside official ubuntu:20.04 rather
than the custom Focal-based json-ci image (same OS, just now attributed to
the official image), and ci_icpc now uses Intel's official
intel/oneapi-hpckit:2023.2.1-devel-ubuntu22.04, bumping the reported ICC
version from 2021.5.0 to 2021.10.0 and the OS from Ubuntu 20.04.3 to 22.04.

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

* Fix CI failures from the json-ci image migration

- ci_icpc: the official intel/oneapi-hpckit image has no CMake preinstalled
  (the custom image bundled one); add the missing lukka/get-cmake step.
- ci_test_compilers_gcc_old: official ubuntu:20.04 has no build tool, so
  CMake's default Unix Makefiles generator failed with "CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM
  is not set"; install make alongside the PPA-provided g++.
- ci_infer: Infer v1.1.0's bundled Clang frontend can't parse GCC 14's
  headers (ubuntu-latest's default toolchain), failing with parse errors in
  <bits/unicode.h>; bump to the latest release, v1.3.0, whose newer bundled
  frontend understands them (release asset also renamed upstream from
  infer-linux64-v1.1.0.tar.xz to infer-linux-x86_64-v1.3.0.tar.xz).

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

* Fix ci_test_compilers_gcc_old: g++-6 missing from xenial-only archives

My inline PPA/archive replication only added the xenial main/universe
suites, but g++-6 isn't available there ("has no installation candidate").
The original custom Dockerfile also pulled from bionic main/universe and
xenial-updates main/universe; add those back to match.

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

* Fix ci_test_compilers_gcc_old: install git for CMake's FetchContent tests

Official ubuntu:20.04 ships no git at all (actions/checkout only succeeded
via its API-download fallback). The cmake_fetch_content(2) tests invoke
CMake's own ExternalProject_Add, which needs a real git binary and failed
with "could not find git for clone of json-populate". Install git alongside
the other build prerequisites.

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

* Fix ci_icpc: drop redundant setvars.sh sourcing

Unlike the old custom image, the official intel/oneapi-hpckit image already
has the oneAPI environment (icc/icpc on PATH) baked in at the container
level. Explicitly re-sourcing setvars.sh in the Build step failed with
"setvars.sh has already been run. Skipping re-execution." (exit code 3,
aborting the step under `sh -e`). Drop the now-unnecessary sourcing.

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

* Fix ci_icpc: exclude classic ICC from the std::span regression test

Bumping to Intel's official intel/oneapi-hpckit:2023.2.1 image (see previous
commit) also bumped classic icc/icpc from 2021.5.0 to 2021.10.0. The newer
version's __has_include(<span>) now returns true, but it still can't
actually compile std::span/std::as_bytes usage:

  error: namespace "std" has no member "as_bytes"
  error: namespace "std" has no member "span"

Exclude __ICC/__INTEL_COMPILER the same way _LIBCPP_VERSION is already
excluded for issue #4490.

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

* Fix amalgamation/style check: indent comment per astyle

Verified with the pinned astyle 3.4.13 (make install_astyle) locally;
no further diff.

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

* Fix ci_icpc: skip UTF-8 u8-literal comparison test on classic ICC

test-deserialization_cpp20 failed:

  ERROR: CHECK( j2["emoji"] == "😀" ) is NOT correct!

check_utf8() only guards against MSVC's ANSI-codepage quirk (its docstring
example), but classic ICC has an analogous problem: it doesn't encode a
narrow string literal containing non-ASCII source characters as UTF-8,
so comparing a decoded u8R"(...)" literal against a narrow literal with
the same characters fails. Extend the existing guard.

Verified with the pinned astyle 3.4.13; no diff.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-07-10 16:11:41 +02:00