PyGC_Head structure size depends on the Python version, sizes of 64-bit:

* 2.7: 32 bytes
* 3.6, 3.7: 24 bytes
* 3.8 (master): 16 bytes

bpo-36618 "clang expects memory aligned on 16 bytes, but pymalloc aligns to 8 bytes" should be even worse on 3.7: 24 is not aligned on 16. I don't understand why nobody saw this alignment issue previously. Maybe clang only became stricer about 16 bytes alignment recently?

2.7:

typedef union _gc_head {
    struct {
        union _gc_head *gc_next;
        union _gc_head *gc_prev;
        Py_ssize_t gc_refs;
    } gc;
    double dummy; /* Force at least 8-byte alignment. */
    char dummy_padding[sizeof(union _gc_head_old)];
} PyGC_Head;

3.7:

typedef union _gc_head {
    struct {
        union _gc_head *gc_next;
        union _gc_head *gc_prev;
        Py_ssize_t gc_refs;
    } gc;
    double dummy;  /* force worst-case alignment */
} PyGC_Head;

3.8:

typedef struct {
    // Pointer to next object in the list.
    // 0 means the object is not tracked
    uintptr_t _gc_next;

    // Pointer to previous object in the list.
    // Lowest two bits are used for flags documented later.
    uintptr_t _gc_prev;
} PyGC_Head;

In 3.8, the union used to ensure alignment on a C double is gone.