s/Firey/Fiery/ in comment.

fix various typos in comments.

Remove unused macro.

Use C89 definitions

PR/45989: Martin Husemann: lint invocation does include -w only on i386

- turn lint -w for all the platforms after fixing the lint warnings.
- add _DIAGASSERTS() for casts that would assign values t

PR/45989: Martin Husemann: lint invocation does include -w only on i386

- turn lint -w for all the platforms after fixing the lint warnings.
- add _DIAGASSERTS() for casts that would assign values to types that
would not fit.
- change types, add casts
- change into ansii prototypes
- turn on _DIAGNOSTIC for libc (during current, to be eliminated for release
builds)

approved by core@

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Check bits on each loop to prevent integer oveflow.
Reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz

Add the remaining files from net that are going to be moved here and
the Makefile glue.