Add assert() statements and eliminate needless variable assignments in order

Add assert() statements and eliminate needless variable assignments in order
to get the clang scan-build utility to report zero problems against the
SQLite core.  Clang's static analysis did find one real problem - but it was
in the command-line shell, not in the SQLite core.

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