Previously hb_jsonDecode took only (cJSON) and returned the value.
That covers most uses but not the Harbour-spec second form
nBytesParsed := hb_jsonDecode( cJSON, @xOut )
which mod_harbour / fivenode PRG (e.g. bridge_context.prg's
ctx_get / ctx_set) and any other code that wants the parse-length
relies on. The byref output was silently dropped, so a hash lookup
went through the @hOut path that was always NIL and fell back to
the default value — looking like a hash key was missing even
though the JSON parsed fine.
Now PCount() == 1 keeps the legacy return-value form; PCount() >= 2
writes the decoded value into local-2 via SetLocal (which is
already byref-aware) and returns the byte count (0 on parse error).
Verified: hb_jsonDecode('{"x":1,"y":2}', @h) writes the hash and
returns 13; the 1-arg form still returns the value as before;
Compat 56/56 + go test ./compiler/... ./hbrt/... ./hbrtl/... all pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Charles KWON OhJun
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