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diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index c21e80c..8d6cda5 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -4661,6 +4661,14 @@ ascii_decode(const char *start, const char *end, Py_UCS1 *dest)
const char *p = start;
const char *aligned_end = (const char *) _Py_ALIGN_DOWN(end, SIZEOF_LONG);
+ /*
+ * Issue #17237: m68k is a bit different from most architectures in
+ * that objects do not use "natural alignment" - for example, int and
+ * long are only aligned at 2-byte boundaries. Therefore the assert()
+ * won't work; also, tests have shown that skipping the "optimised
+ * version" will even speed up m68k.
+ */
+#if !defined(__m68k__)
#if SIZEOF_LONG <= SIZEOF_VOID_P
assert(_Py_IS_ALIGNED(dest, SIZEOF_LONG));
if (_Py_IS_ALIGNED(p, SIZEOF_LONG)) {
@@ -4686,6 +4694,7 @@ ascii_decode(const char *start, const char *end, Py_UCS1 *dest)
return p - start;
}
#endif
+#endif
while (p < end) {
/* Fast path, see in STRINGLIB(utf8_decode) in stringlib/codecs.h
for an explanation. */