diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
index c2a4c9320920..b7c5d3c632ce 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2016-04-14  Martin Sebor  <msebor@redhat.com>
+
+	* g++.dg/cpp1y/vla11.C: Avoid using attribute aligned to increase
+	type size to prevent failures on targets with very low maximum
+	alignment.
+
 2016-04-14  Richard Biener  <rguenther@suse.de>
 
 	PR tree-optimization/70623
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/cpp1y/vla11.C b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/cpp1y/vla11.C
index af9624a404b9..36609abe53bc 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/cpp1y/vla11.C
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/cpp1y/vla11.C
@@ -86,9 +86,10 @@ sink (void *p, int line, bool expect, const char *expr)
 // that the checking code can deal with templates (i.e., completes
 // the element type of the VLA when necessary).
 template <unsigned TypeSize>
-struct alignas (TypeSize) TestType
+union TestType
 {
   char data;
+  char padding [TypeSize];
 };
 
 // Test function invoked with a pointer to each test case.  Must