commits were made (as well as a few other minor warnings elsewhere).
The Makefile change is to avoid passing -Wstrict-prototypes and
-Wnested-externs to the C++ compiler, which the compiler yells about and
then ignores.
Since we compile with -Wmissing-field-initializers I dropped the
unreferenced zero-width fields in the header structs, and then explicitly
initialized the remaining fields.
I tagged several unused function parameters to silence those warnings.
And finally, I dropped the unused filter_escapes() too.