Niels Lohmann 44b1e7b2b9 Report an empty array for UBJSON [$N#<n> instead of n elements ...

A no-op (N) is not a value, so an optimized array of type N holds no
element whatever count it declares. The reader skipped the elements but
still passed the declared count to the SAX parser: a handler was told
start_array(n) and no element followed, and the DOM parser reserved
min(n, 16384) values (256 KB) for an array that stays empty. Nine bytes
(`[$N#l 0x7FFFFFFF`) therefore committed 256 KB: 2000 of them in one
input, 18 KB, committed 512 MB of heap (capacity 163,840,000 values for
the 10000 arrays of the original probe: 2.6 GB for 70 KB of input).
Untouched pages keep the resident size small, but the commit charge and
a 32-bit address space are consumed.

The reader now announces 0 elements for an optimized array of type N.
The loop that skips the elements is unchanged (it never ran). A count
that does not fit into std::size_t is still rejected by the count
reader; a count that is too large for the array type of the DOM (before:
out_of_range.408 "excessive array size" from the DOM handler) is
accepted now, because the array is empty.

Behaviour change: sax_parse reports start_array(0) for `[$N#n` (before:
n); from_ubjson no longer throws out_of_range.408 for an N-typed array
whose count exceeds the maximum size of the array type.

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

2026-11-11 10:46:41 +01:00

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Report an empty array for UBJSON [$N#<n> instead of n elements

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