7121623: G1: always be able to reliably calculate the length of a forwarded chunked array
Summary: Store the "next chunk start index" in the length field of the to-space object, instead of the from-space object, so that we can always reliably read the size of all from-space objects.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr, jmasa
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