diff --git a/Include/cpython/abstract.h b/Include/cpython/abstract.h
index 2ea3209bca1098..dbfce2dc9061db 100644
--- a/Include/cpython/abstract.h
+++ b/Include/cpython/abstract.h
@@ -82,14 +82,14 @@ _PyVectorcall_Function(PyObject *callable)
 {
     PyTypeObject *tp = Py_TYPE(callable);
     Py_ssize_t offset = tp->tp_vectorcall_offset;
-    vectorcallfunc *ptr;
+    vectorcallfunc ptr;
     if (!PyType_HasFeature(tp, _Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VECTORCALL)) {
         return NULL;
     }
     assert(PyCallable_Check(callable));
     assert(offset > 0);
-    ptr = (vectorcallfunc*)(((char *)callable) + offset);
-    return *ptr;
+    memcpy(&ptr, (char *) callable + offset, sizeof(ptr));
+    return ptr;
 }
 
 /* Call the callable object 'callable' with the "vectorcall" calling
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-03-24-09-27-10.bpo-40052.27P2KG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-03-24-09-27-10.bpo-40052.27P2KG.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..538488e2fbaccd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-03-24-09-27-10.bpo-40052.27P2KG.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix an alignment build warning/error in function ``PyVectorcall_Function()``.
+Patch by Andreas Schneider, Antoine Pitrou and Petr Viktorin.
diff --git a/Objects/call.c b/Objects/call.c
index c66389854d8bf0..9672be01ed0590 100644
--- a/Objects/call.c
+++ b/Objects/call.c
@@ -175,13 +175,14 @@ PyVectorcall_Call(PyObject *callable, PyObject *tuple, PyObject *kwargs)
 {
     /* get vectorcallfunc as in _PyVectorcall_Function, but without
      * the _Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VECTORCALL check */
+    vectorcallfunc func;
     Py_ssize_t offset = Py_TYPE(callable)->tp_vectorcall_offset;
     if (offset <= 0) {
         PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "'%.200s' object does not support vectorcall",
                      Py_TYPE(callable)->tp_name);
         return NULL;
     }
-    vectorcallfunc func = *(vectorcallfunc *)(((char *)callable) + offset);
+    memcpy(&func, (char *) callable + offset, sizeof(func));
     if (func == NULL) {
         PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "'%.200s' object does not support vectorcall",
                      Py_TYPE(callable)->tp_name);