diff --git a/test/CMakeLists.txt b/test/CMakeLists.txt
index 56664e783..5136f82aa 100644
--- a/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@ ei_add_test(nullary)
 ei_add_test(mixingtypes)
 ei_add_test(io)
 ei_add_test(packetmath "-DEIGEN_FAST_MATH=1")
-ei_add_test(unalignedassert)
 ei_add_test(vectorization_logic)
 ei_add_test(basicstuff)
 ei_add_test(constructor)
diff --git a/test/geo_hyperplane.cpp b/test/geo_hyperplane.cpp
index 2c89ecd21..44b2f2aec 100644
--- a/test/geo_hyperplane.cpp
+++ b/test/geo_hyperplane.cpp
@@ -172,11 +172,6 @@ template<typename Scalar> void hyperplane_alignment()
 
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(p1->coeffs(), p2->coeffs());
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(p1->coeffs(), p3->coeffs());
-  
-  #if defined(EIGEN_VECTORIZE) && EIGEN_MAX_STATIC_ALIGN_BYTES > 0
-  if(internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::Vectorizable && internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::size<=4)
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT((::new(reinterpret_cast<void*>(array3u)) Plane3a));
-  #endif
 }
 
 
diff --git a/test/geo_parametrizedline.cpp b/test/geo_parametrizedline.cpp
index 7135c8fa5..e4b194abc 100644
--- a/test/geo_parametrizedline.cpp
+++ b/test/geo_parametrizedline.cpp
@@ -110,11 +110,6 @@ template<typename Scalar> void parametrizedline_alignment()
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(p1->origin(), p3->origin());
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(p1->direction(), p2->direction());
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(p1->direction(), p3->direction());
-  
-  #if defined(EIGEN_VECTORIZE) && EIGEN_MAX_STATIC_ALIGN_BYTES>0
-  if(internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::Vectorizable && internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::size<=4)
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT((::new(reinterpret_cast<void*>(array3u)) Line4a));
-  #endif
 }
 
 EIGEN_DECLARE_TEST(geo_parametrizedline)
diff --git a/test/geo_quaternion.cpp b/test/geo_quaternion.cpp
index c4a3162b3..c561fc89d 100644
--- a/test/geo_quaternion.cpp
+++ b/test/geo_quaternion.cpp
@@ -218,10 +218,6 @@ template<typename Scalar> void mapQuaternion(void){
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(q1.coeffs(), q2.coeffs());
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(q1.coeffs(), q3.coeffs());
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(q4.coeffs(), q3.coeffs());
-  #ifdef EIGEN_VECTORIZE
-  if(internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::Vectorizable)
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT((MQuaternionA(array3unaligned)));
-  #endif
     
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(mq1 * (mq1.inverse() * v1), v1);
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(mq1 * (mq1.conjugate() * v1), v1);
@@ -281,10 +277,6 @@ template<typename Scalar> void quaternionAlignment(void){
 
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(q1->coeffs(), q2->coeffs());
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(q1->coeffs(), q3->coeffs());
-  #if defined(EIGEN_VECTORIZE) && EIGEN_MAX_STATIC_ALIGN_BYTES>0
-  if(internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::Vectorizable && internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::size<=4)
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT((::new(reinterpret_cast<void*>(arrayunaligned)) QuaternionA));
-  #endif
 }
 
 template<typename PlainObjectType> void check_const_correctness(const PlainObjectType&)
diff --git a/test/geo_transformations.cpp b/test/geo_transformations.cpp
index d433561cb..72c6edac1 100644
--- a/test/geo_transformations.cpp
+++ b/test/geo_transformations.cpp
@@ -582,11 +582,6 @@ template<typename Scalar> void transform_alignment()
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(p1->matrix(), p3->matrix());
   
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX( (*p1) * (*p1), (*p2)*(*p3));
-  
-  #if defined(EIGEN_VECTORIZE) && EIGEN_MAX_STATIC_ALIGN_BYTES>0
-  if(internal::packet_traits<Scalar>::Vectorizable)
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT((::new(reinterpret_cast<void*>(array3u)) Projective3a));
-  #endif
 }
 
 template<typename Scalar, int Dim, int Options> void transform_products()
diff --git a/test/unalignedassert.cpp b/test/unalignedassert.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 120cc42bb..000000000
--- a/test/unalignedassert.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,180 +0,0 @@
-// This file is part of Eigen, a lightweight C++ template library
-// for linear algebra.
-//
-// Copyright (C) 2008 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com>
-// Copyright (C) 2015 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
-//
-// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla
-// Public License v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed
-// with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
-
-#if defined(EIGEN_TEST_PART_1)
-  // default
-#elif defined(EIGEN_TEST_PART_2)
-  #define EIGEN_MAX_STATIC_ALIGN_BYTES 16
-  #define EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES 16
-#elif defined(EIGEN_TEST_PART_3)
-  #define EIGEN_MAX_STATIC_ALIGN_BYTES 32
-  #define EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES 32
-#elif defined(EIGEN_TEST_PART_4)
-  #define EIGEN_MAX_STATIC_ALIGN_BYTES 64
-  #define EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES 64
-#endif
-
-#include "main.h"
-
-typedef Matrix<float,  6,1> Vector6f;
-typedef Matrix<float,  8,1> Vector8f;
-typedef Matrix<float, 12,1> Vector12f;
-
-typedef Matrix<double, 5,1> Vector5d;
-typedef Matrix<double, 6,1> Vector6d;
-typedef Matrix<double, 7,1> Vector7d;
-typedef Matrix<double, 8,1> Vector8d;
-typedef Matrix<double, 9,1> Vector9d;
-typedef Matrix<double,10,1> Vector10d;
-typedef Matrix<double,12,1> Vector12d;
-
-struct TestNew1
-{
-  MatrixXd m; // good: m will allocate its own array, taking care of alignment.
-  TestNew1() : m(20,20) {}
-};
-
-struct TestNew2
-{
-  Matrix3d m; // good: m's size isn't a multiple of 16 bytes, so m doesn't have to be 16-byte aligned,
-              // 8-byte alignment is good enough here, which we'll get automatically
-};
-
-struct TestNew3
-{
-  Vector2f m; // good: m's size isn't a multiple of 16 bytes, so m doesn't have to be 16-byte aligned
-};
-
-struct TestNew4
-{
-  EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW
-  Vector2d m;
-  float f; // make the struct have sizeof%16!=0 to make it a little more tricky when we allow an array of 2 such objects
-};
-
-struct TestNew5
-{
-  EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW
-  float f; // try the f at first -- the EIGEN_ALIGN_MAX attribute of m should make that still work
-  Matrix4f m;
-};
-
-struct TestNew6
-{
-  Matrix<float,2,2,DontAlign> m; // good: no alignment requested
-  float f;
-};
-
-template<bool Align> struct Depends
-{
-  EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW_IF(Align)
-  Vector2d m;
-  float f;
-};
-
-template<typename T>
-void check_unalignedassert_good()
-{
-  T *x, *y;
-  x = new T;
-  delete x;
-  y = new T[2];
-  delete[] y;
-}
-
-#if EIGEN_MAX_STATIC_ALIGN_BYTES>0
-template<typename T>
-void construct_at_boundary(int boundary)
-{
-  char buf[sizeof(T)+256];
-  size_t _buf = reinterpret_cast<internal::UIntPtr>(buf);
-  _buf += (EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES - (_buf % EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES)); // make 16/32/...-byte aligned
-  _buf += boundary; // make exact boundary-aligned
-  T *x = ::new(reinterpret_cast<void*>(_buf)) T;
-  x[0].setZero(); // just in order to silence warnings
-  x->~T();
-}
-#endif
-
-void unalignedassert()
-{
-#if EIGEN_MAX_STATIC_ALIGN_BYTES>0
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector2f>(4);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector3f>(4);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector4f>(16);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector6f>(4);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector8f>(EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector12f>(16);
-  construct_at_boundary<Matrix2f>(16);
-  construct_at_boundary<Matrix3f>(4);
-  construct_at_boundary<Matrix4f>(EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES);
-
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector2d>(16);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector3d>(4);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector4d>(EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector5d>(4);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector6d>(16);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector7d>(4);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector8d>(EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector9d>(4);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector10d>(16);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector12d>(EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES);
-  construct_at_boundary<Matrix2d>(EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES);
-  construct_at_boundary<Matrix3d>(4);
-  construct_at_boundary<Matrix4d>(EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES);
-
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector2cf>(16);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector3cf>(4);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector2cd>(EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES);
-  construct_at_boundary<Vector3cd>(16);
-#endif
-
-  check_unalignedassert_good<TestNew1>();
-  check_unalignedassert_good<TestNew2>();
-  check_unalignedassert_good<TestNew3>();
-
-  check_unalignedassert_good<TestNew4>();
-  check_unalignedassert_good<TestNew5>();
-  check_unalignedassert_good<TestNew6>();
-  check_unalignedassert_good<Depends<true> >();
-
-#if EIGEN_MAX_STATIC_ALIGN_BYTES>0
-  if(EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES>=16)
-  {
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Vector4f>(8));
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Vector8f>(8));
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Vector12f>(8));
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Vector2d>(8));
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Vector4d>(8));
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Vector6d>(8));
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Vector8d>(8));
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Vector10d>(8));
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Vector12d>(8));
-    // Complexes are disabled because the compiler might aggressively vectorize
-    // the initialization of complex coeffs to 0 before we can check for alignedness
-    //VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Vector2cf>(8));
-    VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Vector4i>(8));
-  }
-  for(int b=8; b<EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES; b+=8)
-  {
-    if(b<32)  VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Vector8f>(b));
-    if(b<64)  VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Matrix4f>(b));
-    if(b<32)  VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Vector4d>(b));
-    if(b<32)  VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Matrix2d>(b));
-    if(b<128) VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Matrix4d>(b));
-    //if(b<32)  VERIFY_RAISES_ASSERT(construct_at_boundary<Vector2cd>(b));
-  }
-#endif
-}
-
-EIGEN_DECLARE_TEST(unalignedassert)
-{
-  CALL_SUBTEST(unalignedassert());
-}