Revert D40283500: Multisect successfully blamed D40283500 for test or…

… build failures

Summary:
This diff is reverting D40283500
D40283500 has been identified to be causing the following test or build failures:
Tests affected:
- https://www.internalfb.com/intern/test/844424945068193/

Here's the Multisect link:
https://www.internalfb.com/intern/testinfra/multisect/1355177
Here are the tasks that are relevant to this breakage:
T134940596: 3 tests started failing for oncall haas in the last 2 weeks
We're generating a revert to back out the changes in this diff, please note the backout may land if someone accepts it.

Reviewed By: fbmal7

Differential Revision: D40461524

fbshipit-source-id: 863435129d36e6742d60753617fdab1223e16ee7

include/hermes/Support/UTF16Stream.h

@@ -59,10 +59,6 @@ class UTF16Stream {
     return *this;
   }
 
-  const char16_t *position() const {
-    return cur_;
-  }
-
  private:
   /// Tries to convert more data. Returns true if more data was converted.
   bool refill();

lib/VM/JSLib/JSONLexer.cpp

@@ -127,28 +127,20 @@ ExecutionStatus JSONLexer::scanNumber() {
 ExecutionStatus JSONLexer::scanString() {
   assert(*curCharPtr_ == '"');
   ++curCharPtr_;
-  const char16_t *start = curCharPtr_.position();
-  bool hasEscape = false;
-  // Ideally we don't have to use tmpStorage. In the case of a plain string with
-  // no escapes, we just construct an ArrayRef at the end of scanning that
-  // points to the beginning and end of the string.
   SmallU16String<32> tmpStorage;
 
   while (curCharPtr_.hasChar()) {
     if (*curCharPtr_ == '"') {
       // End of string.
-      llvh::ArrayRef<char16_t> strRef = hasEscape
-          ? tmpStorage.arrayRef()
-          : llvh::makeArrayRef(start, curCharPtr_.position());
       ++curCharPtr_;
       // If the string exists in the identifier table, use that one.
       if (auto existing =
               runtime_.getIdentifierTable().getExistingStringPrimitiveOrNull(
-                  runtime_, strRef)) {
+                  runtime_, tmpStorage.arrayRef())) {
         token_.setString(runtime_.makeHandle<StringPrimitive>(existing));
         return ExecutionStatus::RETURNED;
       }
-      auto strRes = StringPrimitive::create(runtime_, strRef);
+      auto strRes = StringPrimitive::create(runtime_, tmpStorage.arrayRef());
       if (LLVM_UNLIKELY(strRes == ExecutionStatus::EXCEPTION)) {
         return ExecutionStatus::EXCEPTION;
       }
@@ -158,12 +150,6 @@ ExecutionStatus JSONLexer::scanString() {
       return error(u"U+0000 thru U+001F is not allowed in string");
     }
     if (*curCharPtr_ == u'\\') {
-      if (!hasEscape && curCharPtr_.position() != start) {
-        // This is the first escape character encountered, so append everything
-        // we've seen so far to tmpStorage.
-        tmpStorage.append(start, curCharPtr_.position());
-      }
-      hasEscape = true;
       ++curCharPtr_;
       if (!curCharPtr_.hasChar()) {
         return error("Unexpected end of input");
@@ -211,8 +197,7 @@ ExecutionStatus JSONLexer::scanString() {
           return errorWithChar(u"Invalid escape sequence: ", *curCharPtr_);
       }
     } else {
-      if (hasEscape)
-        tmpStorage.push_back(*curCharPtr_);
+      tmpStorage.push_back(*curCharPtr_);
       ++curCharPtr_;
     }
   }