[lilliput-jdk21u:lilliput] RFR: 8314485: [Lilliput/JDK21] Cherry-pick: 8139457: Array bases are aligned at HeapWord granularity

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:09:07 GMT, Roman Kennke <rkennke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Let's cherry-pick the current state of the upstream PR https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/11044 into Lilliput/JDK21 in preparation for the other Lilliput-related changes. The original change applies cleanly on top of lilliput/jdk21u.
> 
> Testing:
>  - [ ] tier1 -UCCP
>  - [ ] tier1 +UCCP

Marked as reviewed by shade (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/lilliput-jdk21u/pull/1#pullrequestreview-1582337500