Harden spell.c against out-of-order FLAG lines in Hunspell files.

The compound flags collected from COMPOUNDFLAG and friends are stored in
either the string or the integer member of a union, according to the
flag mode that the affix file's FLAG line declares.  NIImportOOAffixes()
converted each flag as soon as it read it, using the mode in effect at
that point, and recorded that mode in the entry.  Since FLAG may appear
anywhere in the file, including after the compound flags, entries written
before and after it could disagree about which member of the union holds
the flag.

In assert-enabled builds, this would result in an assertion failure.
Otherwise, cmpcmdflag() takes the mode from its first argument and
applies it to both, so it can read an integer as a char pointer and pass
that to strcmp().  Depending on which way the mismatch goes, the result
is a segfault while sorting the array, a segfault in the bsearch() that
later looks flags up (the lookup key is built with the final mode, so
this happens even when the array itself is consistent), or, when both
members happen to be readable, no crash at all and a compound flag that
is never found, which silently disables compound word splitting.  This
isn't a security bug because we consider dictionary files to be trusted
data, but it's still worth fixing.  (In practice, dictionary files
usually put the FLAG line first, which is why this went unreported for
so long.)

Fix by keeping the flags as strings while the file is read and converting
them once it has been read in full, when the mode is final.  This also
makes the position of the FLAG line irrelevant, which is how the flags on
AF, SFX and PFX lines are already treated: those are parsed in a second
pass and so always use the final mode.  That precedent is reason for
behaving this way rather than throwing an error.

The old ispell file format reaches addCompoundAffixFlagValue() too,
from NIImportAffixes(), and returns without entering NIImportOOAffixes(),
so it needs the conversion step as well.

While we're here, also fix some integer width mismatches: store the
result of strtol() into a "long", and cast to int only after we've done
range checks.  Typically a value too wide for int would fail the range
checks anyway, but in some cases it would be silently accepted after
truncation to int.

Author: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Discussion: 
https://postgr.es/m/CAON2xHN3QmsaySM6DGWa1gttcbJoFh0wjAE-_ZpSPo=lkn1...@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14

Branch
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REL_16_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5827ddfc27226a948f60b4c08c6aa405e81d5f74

Modified Files
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src/backend/tsearch/spell.c | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 88 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

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