[issue28055] pyhash's siphash24 assumes alignment of the data pointer

[Matthias Klose]

Matthias Klose added the comment:

> I believe the unaligned memory access configure check is supposed to
> prevent siphash from being used, so we might look into why that's not
> working.
> 
> IMO, though, we should just require alignment for the argument to
> _PyHash_Bytes. It's private after all.

If I understand it correctly, the hash value differs depending on the kernel configuration when the python binary is built, leading to different pickle objects which cannot be shared, making them incompatible .  I think the safest thing would be to remove the hash make the selection of the hash method unconditional, and to make this hash function working for all cases.

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