🛠 Add basic array safety functions and backwards-compatible result type #5696

Job	Run time
build (windows-2019, Win32, v142, 17, Debug)	1m 53s
build (windows-2019, Win32, v142, 17, Release)	2m 26s
build (windows-2019, Win32, v142, 17, -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON, Debug)	1m 32s
mingw (mingw64)	4m 11s
build (windows-2019, Win32, v142, 17, -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON, Release)	2m 15s
build (windows-2019, x64, v140, 14, Debug)	1m 11s
mingw (ucrt64)	3m 46s
build (windows-2019, x64, v140, 14, Release)	2m 3s
build (windows-2019, x64, v141, 17, Debug)	1m 54s
build (windows-2019, x64, v141, 17, Release)	2m 47s
build (windows-2019, x64, v142, 17, Debug)	1m 20s
build (windows-2019, x64, v142, 17, Release)	2m 13s
build (windows-2019, x64, v142, 17, -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON, Debug)	1m 9s
build (windows-2019, x64, v142, 17, -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON, Release)	2m 36s
build (windows-2019, x64, v142, 20, Debug)	2m 26s
build (windows-2019, x64, v142, 20, Release)	3m 10s
build (windows-2022, x64, v143, Debug, 20)	1m 27s
	38m 19s

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