Request for reviews (S): 6860920: serialize.cpp shouldn't use objArrayOopDesc::base_offset_in_bytes(T_BYTE)

[Christian Thalinger]

Coleen Phillimore wrote:
> I think this looks good and is much cleaner.  At one point of the 
> Compressed Oops development, base_offset_in_bytes(T_OBJECT) was rounding 
> up to the 3rd 64 bit word, which is wrong, so I might have set this to 
> T_BYTE for that reason.  I think all that got fixed with further 
> development, but can you please check that the answer you get for 
> compressed oops is 2*64 bits and without compressed oops is 3*64 bits.

So, then I will push the change to the hotspot-comp forest as I think I
don't have commit rights for hotspot-rt.

-- Christian