From 2ad99a6c700618da258a53eb0d46b3dba2a2d396 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabian Fleischer <50590395+fab1ano@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:45:16 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Pre-allocate tokenbuf for string parser (#3485)

Fixes #3483
---
 src/jv_parse.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/jv_parse.c b/src/jv_parse.c
index ffcf51f4..aa2054cc 100644
--- a/src/jv_parse.c
+++ b/src/jv_parse.c
@@ -79,8 +79,9 @@ static void parser_init(struct jv_parser* p, int flags) {
   p->last_seen = JV_LAST_NONE;
   p->output = jv_invalid();
   p->next = jv_invalid();
-  p->tokenbuf = 0;
-  p->tokenlen = p->tokenpos = 0;
+  p->tokenlen = 256;
+  p->tokenbuf = jv_mem_alloc(p->tokenlen);
+  p->tokenpos = 0;
   if ((p->flags & JV_PARSE_SEQ))
     p->st = JV_PARSER_WAITING_FOR_RS;
   else