This seems to fix an error when flt_arith converts a literal
double-precision float to IEEE format. For example, 0.5 and 0.75 got
converted to slightly below their correct values.
My host gcc for amd64 has 64-bit long, but flt_arith needs only 32
bits. The code (at least flt_add.c) can make 32-bit overflows. Such
overflows would set the higher bits of a 64-bit long, which might
cause problems later.
I need to use uint32_t and not int32_t because the code still uses
long, and the sign extension from int32_t to long would cause
problems. The mantissa represents a value in [0, 2) that can't be
negative, so unsigned type is better. Also, signed overflow is
undefined behavior in C, so flt_add.c better make overflows with
uint32_t and not int32_t.
This commit doesn't touch lang/cem/libcc.ansi/stdlib/ext_fmt.h which
continues to use unsigned long for its mantissa fields.
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