This removes an implicit conversion from size_t to ssize_t. For cactive
decreases, the size_t value was intentionally underflowed to generate
"negative" values (actually positive values above the positive range of
ssize_t), and the conversion to ssize_t was undefined according to C
language semantics.
This regression was perpetuated by
1522937e9c (Fix the cactive statistic.)
and first release in 4.0.0, which in retrospect only fixed one of two
problems introduced by aa5113b1fd
(Refactor overly large/complex functions) and first released in 3.5.0.
3763d3b5f9