diff --git a/src/pkg/runtime/alg.c b/src/pkg/runtime/alg.c
index 36973eba332..bc848da38cd 100644
--- a/src/pkg/runtime/alg.c
+++ b/src/pkg/runtime/alg.c
@@ -469,10 +469,11 @@ void
 runtime·equal(Type *t, ...)
 {
 	byte *x, *y;
-	bool *ret;
+	uintptr ret;
 	
 	x = (byte*)(&t+1);
-	y = x + t->size;
-	ret = (bool*)(y + t->size);
-	t->alg->equal(ret, t->size, x, y);
+	y = x + ROUND(t->size, t->align);
+	ret = (uintptr)(y + t->size);
+	ret = ROUND(ret, Structrnd);
+	t->alg->equal((bool*)ret, t->size, x, y);
 }
diff --git a/test/fixedbugs/bug449.go b/test/fixedbugs/bug449.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a9650f4c6f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixedbugs/bug449.go
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+// runoutput
+
+// Copyright 2012 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Issue 3866
+// runtime.equal failed to take padding between arguments and
+// return values into account, so in certain cases gc-generated
+// code will read a random bool from the stack as the result of
+// the comparison.
+// This program generates a lot of equality tests and hopes to
+// catch this.
+// NOTE: this program assumes comparing instance of T and T's
+// underlying []byte will make gc emit calls to runtime.equal,
+// and if gc optimizes this case, then the test will no longer
+// be correct (in the sense that it no longer tests runtime.equal).
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"fmt"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+const ntest = 1024
+
+func main() {
+	var decls, calls bytes.Buffer
+
+	for i := 1; i <= ntest; i++ {
+		s := strconv.Itoa(i)
+		decls.WriteString(strings.Replace(decl, "$", s, -1))
+		calls.WriteString(strings.Replace("call(test$)\n\t", "$", s, -1))
+	}
+
+	program = strings.Replace(program, "$DECLS", decls.String(), 1)
+	program = strings.Replace(program, "$CALLS", calls.String(), 1)
+	fmt.Print(program)
+}
+
+var program = `package main
+
+var count int
+
+func call(f func() bool) {
+	if f() {
+		count++
+	}
+}
+
+$DECLS
+
+func main() {
+	$CALLS
+	if count != 0 {
+		println("failed", count, "case(s)")
+	}
+}
+`
+
+const decl = `
+type T$ [$]uint8
+func test$() bool {
+	v := T${1}
+	return v == [$]uint8{2} || v != [$]uint8{1}
+}`