diff --git a/contrib/libcxxrt/exception.cc b/contrib/libcxxrt/exception.cc
--- a/contrib/libcxxrt/exception.cc
+++ b/contrib/libcxxrt/exception.cc
@@ -572,19 +572,6 @@
 	}
 }
 
-#ifdef __LP64__
-/**
- * There's an ABI bug in __cxa_exception: unwindHeader requires 16-byte
- * alignment but it was broken by the addition of the referenceCount.
- * The unwindHeader is at offset 0x58 in __cxa_exception.  In order to keep
- * compatibility with consumers of the broken __cxa_exception, explicitly add
- * padding on allocation (and account for it on free).
- */
-static const int exception_alignment_padding = 8;
-#else
-static const int exception_alignment_padding = 0;
-#endif
-
 /**
  * Allocates an exception structure.  Returns a pointer to the space that can
  * be used to store an object of thrown_size bytes.  This function will use an
@@ -593,19 +580,16 @@
  */
 extern "C" void *__cxa_allocate_exception(size_t thrown_size)
 {
-	size_t size = exception_alignment_padding + sizeof(__cxa_exception) +
-	    thrown_size;
+	size_t size = thrown_size + sizeof(__cxa_exception);
 	char *buffer = alloc_or_die(size);
-	return buffer + exception_alignment_padding + sizeof(__cxa_exception);
+	return buffer+sizeof(__cxa_exception);
 }
 
 extern "C" void *__cxa_allocate_dependent_exception(void)
 {
-	size_t size = exception_alignment_padding +
-	    sizeof(__cxa_dependent_exception);
+	size_t size = sizeof(__cxa_dependent_exception);
 	char *buffer = alloc_or_die(size);
-	return buffer + exception_alignment_padding +
-	    sizeof(__cxa_dependent_exception);
+	return buffer+sizeof(__cxa_dependent_exception);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -633,8 +617,7 @@
 		}
 	}
 
-	free_exception(reinterpret_cast<char*>(ex) -
-	    exception_alignment_padding);
+	free_exception(reinterpret_cast<char*>(ex));
 }
 
 static void releaseException(__cxa_exception *exception)
@@ -661,8 +644,7 @@
 	{
 		releaseException(realExceptionFromException(reinterpret_cast<__cxa_exception*>(ex)));
 	}
-	free_exception(reinterpret_cast<char*>(ex) -
-	    exception_alignment_padding);
+	free_exception(reinterpret_cast<char*>(ex));
 }
 
 /**