rather than reusing the input storage.
Also made the same fix to int8smaller(), though there wasn't a symptom,
and went through and verified that other pass-by-reference data types
do the same thing. Not an issue for the by-value types.
for int8 support. configure now checks only snprintf() for int8 support,
not sprintf and sscanf as it used to. The reason for doing this is that
if we are supplying our own snprintf code (which does handle long long int),
we now only need working long long support in the compiler not in the
platform's C library. I have verified that int8 now passes regression test
on HPUX 9, and I think it should work on SunOS 4.1.* and other older
platforms if gcc is used.
