remove server silliniess

[Fabian Cenedese]

>> remove run-time checks of compile-time constants.
>
>I dearly wish that there were a way of doing compile-time assertion, but there 
>isn't, so it has to be done by a runtime assertion.

Well, there seem to be some reasonable tricks for that:
http://www.jaggersoft.com/pubs/CVu11_3.html
http://www.panelsoft.com/murphyslaw/apr01.htm

This is for C++ but maybe also adaptable for C:
http://www.boost.org/libs/static_assert/static_assert.htm

bye  Fabi