[Yaml] fixed parsing of negative integers

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix?      | yes
| New feature?  | no
| BC breaks?    | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass?   | yes
| Fixed tickets | #6770
| License       | MIT
| Doc PR        | n/a

Note that an unrelated test fixture for large integers had to be changed to work on systems with 64-bit integer support because of the change from `assertEquals()` to `assertSame()`. Please see the diff for clarification.