8319174: Enhance robustness of some j.m.BigInteger constructors

[GoeLin]

I backport this for parity with 17.0.17-oracle.

I had to resolve because
8272626: Avoid C-style array declarations in java.*
is not in 17. Trivial.

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• JDK-8319174: Enhance robustness of some j.m.BigInteger constructors (Enhancement - P4 - Approved)
• JDK-8319327: Enhance robustness of some j.m.BigInteger constructors (CSR) (Withdrawn)

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• Richard Reingruber (@reinrich - Reviewer)

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• d2dad32: 8362839: [21u] Problem list more tests that fail in 21 and would be fixed by 8309622
• 1400595: 8317808: HTTP/2 stream cancelImpl may leave subscriber registered
• e236cad: 8357672: Extreme font sizes can cause font substitution
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Going to push as commit f78f1bf.
Since your change was applied there have been 18 commits pushed to the master branch:

• 90b5b24: 8351601: [JMH] test UnixSocketChannelReadWrite failed for 2 threads config
• d2dad32: 8362839: [21u] Problem list more tests that fail in 21 and would be fixed by 8309622
• 1400595: 8317808: HTTP/2 stream cancelImpl may leave subscriber registered
• ... and 15 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/compare/769bf0c3c783a25bcfa51d4f054508dbead40422...master

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