Encode JSON_VIEW_NO_SIMD and JSON_VIEW_USE_SSSE3 in the ABI namespace

Both macros select between definitions of the same inline functions, so
translation units that disagree on them violated the ODR. Like the other
ABI-affecting macros, they now add a tag to the inline namespace (_vns and
_vssse3), and the docs replace the "Define consistently" warning with the
usual ABI compatibility note. From gregmarr's review of #5628.

nlohmann_json.natvis covers twice as many tags now, so it lists four times
as many namespaces (14.7 MB instead of 3.4 MB).

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ Define the macro only together with a compiler option that enables SSSE3 (e.g. `
has it), and only for programs that run on such CPUs. It saves the check of the CPU, which costs little. The same
input is accepted or rejected either way; only the speed of non-ASCII text differs.
!!! warning "Define consistently"
!!! note "ABI compatibility"
The macro selects between two definitions of the same inline functions. It must therefore be defined identically,
with the same compiler options, for **every** translation unit that includes `<nlohmann/json_view.hpp>`; mixing
translation units that define it with ones that do not is an ODR violation. Prefer a compile definition on the
target.
The macro selects between two definitions of the same inline functions. Whether it is defined is encoded in the
[namespace](../../features/namespace.md) (tag `_vssse3`, on every architecture), resulting in distinct symbol
names. Translation units compiled with and without it can therefore be linked into the same program without One
Definition Rule (ODR) violations, but they cannot exchange instances of library types.
## Default definition