8296496: Overzealous check in sizecalc.h prevents large memory allocation

[mrserb]

Hi all,
This pull request contains a backport of commit 84e12244 from the openjdk/jdk repository.
The commit being backported was authored by Alexander Zuev on 10 Nov 2022 and was reviewed by Alexey Ivanov and Alexander Zvegintsev.
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• JDK-8296496: Overzealous check in sizecalc.h prevents large memory allocation

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This backport pull request has now been updated with issue from the original commit.

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Going to push as commit d982158.
Since your change was applied there have been 19 commits pushed to the master branch:

• 5b77b57: 8285093: Introduce UTIL_ARG_WITH
• a10bb08: 8273497: building.md should link to both md and html
• 9336fb2: 8297590: [TESTBUG] HotSpotResolvedJavaFieldTest does not run
• ae1b055: 8293535: jdk/javadoc/doclet/testJavaFX/TestJavaFxMode.java fail with jfx
• b464cc2: 8296967: [JVMCI] rationalize relationship between getCodeSize and getCode in ResolvedJavaMethod
• b4a4f6a: 8296958: [JVMCI] add API for retrieving ConstantValue attributes
• 94859b9: 8296956: [JVMCI] HotSpotResolvedJavaFieldImpl.getIndex returns wrong value
• 44c8733: 8295405: Add cause in a couple of IllegalArgumentException and InvalidParameterException shown by sun/security/pkcs11 tests
• 22ad409: 8295952: Problemlist existing compiler/rtm tests also on x86
• 8ed9f83: 8270086: ARM32-softfp: Do not load CONSTANT_double using the condy helper methods in the interpreter
• ... and 9 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/compare/a596d64207577fae924b2dfe68c2bfef1d4d9490...master

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