diff --git a/Include/cpython/abstract.h b/Include/cpython/abstract.h
index b5b6e481978..1083942c149 100644
--- a/Include/cpython/abstract.h
+++ b/Include/cpython/abstract.h
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ PyVectorcall_Function(PyObject *callable)
 {
     PyTypeObject *tp;
     Py_ssize_t offset;
-    vectorcallfunc *ptr;
+    vectorcallfunc ptr;
 
     assert(callable != NULL);
     tp = Py_TYPE(callable);
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ PyVectorcall_Function(PyObject *callable)
     assert(PyCallable_Check(callable));
     offset = tp->tp_vectorcall_offset;
     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 00000000000..538488e2fba
--- /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 30fa14ccfd7..35b06a9b9c4 100644
--- a/Objects/call.c
+++ b/Objects/call.c
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ PyObject *
 PyVectorcall_Call(PyObject *callable, PyObject *tuple, PyObject *kwargs)
 {
     PyThreadState *tstate = _PyThreadState_GET();
+    vectorcallfunc func;
 
     /* get vectorcallfunc as in PyVectorcall_Function, but without
      * the Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VECTORCALL check */
@@ -215,7 +216,7 @@ PyVectorcall_Call(PyObject *callable, PyObject *tuple, PyObject *kwargs)
                       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(tstate, PyExc_TypeError,
                       "'%.200s' object does not support vectorcall",