Message 48097 - Python tracker

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I think it's still possible to give slot.offset the same meaning as tp_dictoffset, even given the additional constrain that it can't change upon subclassing.  In your example classes S and T, we can put 'b' before 'a' in memory, so that a.offset==-4 (for both S and T) and b.offset==-8.