We would lay out all classes starting with a Swift-style two-word header, even classes that inherit NSObject and therefore don't have Swift refcounting. The ObjC runtime would slide our ivars down for us at realization time, but it's nice to avoid unnecessarily dirtying memory in the not-uncommon case of direct NSObject subclasses.
There were a few problems here with subclasses of Objective-C classes.
Use the InstanceStart field from rodata to correctly lay out instance
variables, and verify the results match with dynamic and static layout.
Better fix for <rdar://problem/27932061>.