- don't die silently when a read function fails
- fixed while bunch of compiler warnings

fixed-size C strings

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(only if the current model is not empty: if it's empty it probably mean
we just launched gmsh, and we don't want to delete variables set e.g.
using the -string command line option)

all this open/merge stuff needs to be cleaned up

things down when you have many many surfaces)
- fix out of bound acces in transfinite callback when selecting > 100
entities