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Unlike Tim I have a use case for lots of small longs in memory: to store unsigned machine integers.  It's exactly the case where it would be nice that the extra field didn't cross the malloc 8-byte boundary.  Of course, it's exactly NOT what is happening here on 32-bit machines, and this patch makes program relying on this kind of longs suddenly consume 8 extra bytes per long.  Damn.