jv_get() doesn't know if it's being called in the context of a jq
program or not, so it can't produce a very useful error message when the
types of the to-be-indexed value and the key don't agree. For now,
including the key (when it is a short string) in the error message is as
significant an improvement as is easy to make.
Heuristic IEEE754 endianness autoconf detection
Use AC_C_BIGENDIAN, though it's not really the correct approach. Autoconf ought to have provided a test specifically for IEEE754 endianness, since it can differ from integer/pointer endianness!
This reverts commit 77936a594d.
There are too many odd bugs in this mode, and it turns out to be a bad
idea anyways. Instead, in the future a better option will be to pursue
alternative parsers, such as:
- streaming parser that outputs only when a new leaf value is added or
an array/object is opened/closed; options here include whether to
include a path in each output;
- parsers for binary JSON encodings (there's a variety of them).
Then one might run jq with a streaming parser and use `reduce` to
coalesce inputs from some depth down (instead of from one level down as
the reverted commit had intended).
Besides, a fully streaming parser is desirable in some cases, therefore
we should have such a thing as an option.
I've explored modifying the current parser to support a streaming
option, but it only makes the code very difficult to follow, which is
one reason that alternate parsers makes sense. At any rate, this is all
for the future. For now there's no streaming of individual texts, just
text sequences.
And Solaris 8 and 9 too, no doubt. The problem was that non-standard
vsnprintf()s that return -1 when the buffer is too small were not
properly supported.
For the Mingw build we don't want to pull in the pthread DLL just
because we can autodetect pthread support. That would make the jq.exe
binary not self-contained.
Santiago Lapresta