Fix the calculations of the length of the unread message buffer
contents. The code was subtracting two unsigned ints, stored the
result in a log and expected it to be the same as of a signed
subtraction; this does only work on platforms where int and long
have the same size (due to overflows).
Instead, cast to long before the subtraction; the numbers are
guaranteed to be small enough so that there will be no overflows
because of that.