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fix up EXTEND() callers
The previous commit made it clear that the N argument to EXTEND()
is supposed to be signed, in particular SSize_t, and now typically
triggers compiler warnings where this isn't the case.
This commit fixes the various places in core that passed the wrong sort of
N to EXTEND(). The fixes are in three broad categories.
First, where sensible, I've changed the relevant var to be SSize_t.
Second, where its expected that N could never be large enough to wrap,
I've just added an assert and a cast.
Finally, I've added extra code to detect whether the cast could
wrap/truncate, and if so set N to -1, which will trigger a panic in
stack_grow().
This also fixes
[perl #125937] 'x' operator on list causes segfault with possible
stack corruption