diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3ed95c2..5a71bb7 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ exe: $(EXE)
 dll: $(DLL)
 
 windows: ALL_CXXFLAGS += $(OPT_FLAGS)
+windows: ALL_CXXFLAGS += -mstackrealign
 windows: dll
 
 linux: ALL_CXXFLAGS += $(OPT_FLAGS) -fpic
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 71ed4a9..558ea8c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ and odds are that your version is horribly outdated anyway.
 *Debian/Ubuntu users:* your stable version of g++ can't even build this.
 just `apt-get install clang-3.6` and export `CXX=clang++-3.6` when building.
 
+If you really have to use g++,
+you may need to add `-fabi-version=6` to CXXFLAGS.
+
 ### general building
 
 `make linux` or `make windows` (works well with [mxe])
diff --git a/include/Aligned.hpp b/include/Aligned.hpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5582cbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/Aligned.hpp
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+// http://stackoverflow.com/a/18137117
+struct Aligned {
+	static void*
+	operator new(size_t sz) {
+		const size_t extra = sizeof(void *);
+		void *mem = new char[sz + extra + 15];
+		void *aligned = (void *)(
+		    ((uintptr_t)(mem) + extra + 15) & ~15
+		);
+		void **ptr = (void **)(aligned);
+		ptr[-1] = mem;
+		return aligned;
+	}
+
+	static void
+	operator delete(void* aligned, size_t sz)
+	{
+		void **ptr = (void **) aligned;
+		char *mem = (char *)(ptr[-1]);
+		delete[] mem;
+	}
+};
diff --git a/include/Crap.hpp b/include/Crap.hpp
index 093cc24..4b97922 100644
--- a/include/Crap.hpp
+++ b/include/Crap.hpp
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-struct Crap {
+#include "Aligned.hpp"
+
+struct Crap : public Aligned {
 	virtual inline
 	~Crap() {}
 
diff --git a/template/ladspa.cpp b/template/ladspa.cpp
index 8b84c4b..b06c4d6 100644
--- a/template/ladspa.cpp
+++ b/template/ladspa.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
+
 #include "ladspa.hpp"
 
 //#INCLUDE