util: Create string_view tool to optimize memory usage

We are allocating heap memory to create tokens value, we can minimize the
number of allocations if we start using string_view.

We have other problems, right now the tokens value ownership are quite
unclear once the AST nodes also share the memory allocation done by
token_get_next_token function.

It's important to clarify we also have memory leaks on the current
implementation.  Hence, we are going to start using string_view to make
the memory management easier. :^)

Signed-off-by: Johnny Richard <johnny@johnnyrichard.com>

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+/*
+* Copyright (C) 2023 Johnny Richard
+*
+* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+* (at your option) any later version.
+*
+* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+* GNU General Public License for more details.
+*
+* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+* along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+#ifndef STRING_VIEW
+#define STRING_VIEW
+
+#define SVFMT "%.*s"
+#define SVARG(sv) (sv)->size, (sv)->str
+
+#include <stdbool.h>
+
+typedef struct string_view_t {
+  const char *str;
+  int         size;
+} string_view_t;
+
+string_view_t string_view_new(const char *str, int size);
+
+string_view_t string_view_from_str(const char *str);
+
+bool string_view_to_str(string_view_t *sv, char *ret);
+
+bool string_view_eq(string_view_t a, string_view_t b);
+
+#endif /* STRING_VIEW */