Claude 8d187f72c8 Keep the parent links inside a detached jsonpull subtree ...

json_read_tree() and json_disconnect() cleared both back-pointers on every
node of the subtree they handed out. Clearing `parser` throughout is
necessary -- the json_pull can be destroyed while the subtree lives on, so
a surviving `parser` would dangle -- but clearing `parent` throughout cost
more than it bought.

`parent` is a non-owning raw pointer, so keeping it cannot form a reference
cycle or keep anything alive; there is nothing to leak. And within a
detached subtree it refers to nodes the caller now owns as a single unit,
so it stays valid for exactly as long as the subtree itself. Clearing it
only made the tree unwalkable upwards, and made json_free() and
json_disconnect() silently no-ops on interior nodes of a detached tree,
since both find a node's owner through o->parent.

So clear `parser` everywhere and clear `parent` on the detached root alone,
which is the one that pointed out of the subtree at a node the parser still
owns. Split the old clear_back_pointers() into clear_parser_pointers() plus
a detach_subtree() wrapper that adds the root's `parent`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017KNxyHKasyWrWcvre2yK4r

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jsonpull.cpp

Encode U+FFFF as three bytes instead of an overlong four

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jsonpull.h

Keep the parent links inside a detached jsonpull subtree

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