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ubsan complains about unaligned access when structs include "long double". An example error:
 runtime error: member access within misaligned address 0x7f77dbba9798 for type 'struct CDataObject', which requires 16 byte alignment
This is because (on x86 anyway), long double is 16-bytes long and requires that alignment, but obmalloc only gives a 8-byte alignment. (glibc malloc() gives 16-byte alignment.)
I'm attaching a POC patch. I don't know what the impact of increasing the alignment is on obmalloc's performance or memory usage. It's also unfortunate that this patch increases the size of PyGC_Head to 32 bytes from 24 bytes. One can imagine a more middle-ground solution to this by allowing types to specify their required alignment.