*: simplify log message lookup

log.c provides functionality for associating a constant (typically a
protocol constant) with a string and finding the string given the
constant. However this is highly delicate code that is extremely prone
to stack overflows and off-by-one's due to requiring the developer to
always remember to update the array size constant and to do so correctly
which, as shown by example, is never a good idea.b

The original goal of this code was to try to implement lookups in O(1)
time without a linear search through the message array. Since this code
is used 99% of the time for debugs, it's worth the 5-6 additional cmp's
worst case if it means we avoid explitable bugs due to oversights...

Signed-off-by: Quentin Young <qlyoung@cumulusnetworks.com>

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