Remove special handling of $SAFE and related C-APIs

These were all deprecated in Ruby 2.7.

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 ## Language changes
 
+* $SAFE is now a normal global variable with no special behavior. [Feature #16131]
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 ## Command line options
 
 ## Core classes updates (outstanding ones only)