SI-9671, SI-7397 fix null.asInstanceOf[Int] when pt erases to Object

Erasure first replaces null.asInstanceOf[Int] by unbox(null). If the
expected type erases to object, erasure then introduces a box operation,
yielding box(unbox(null)). Note that this value is a box of zero, not
null.

Erasure has an optimization to replace box(unbox(x)) in case x is
of primitive type. 60f1b4b extended this to the case when x is null,
which is incorrect in general. The reason was to prevent creating a
primitive box to be stored in the unused generic field when creating
an instance of a specialized class. A special case ensures that this
optimization is still performed.

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