diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3042ed4..2694a21 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This change
 - New macros for defining vars with values from native code
 - New function to allow getting the backing memory segment of a `coffi.ffi.StaticVariable`, to replace the `Addressable` implementation lost in the migration to JDK 18
 
+### Fixed
+- Bug where pointer alignment was incorrectly defined
+
 ## [0.5.357] - 2022-07-07
 ### Removed
 - `:coffi.mem/long-long` primitive type
diff --git a/src/clj/coffi/mem.clj b/src/clj/coffi/mem.clj
index c4642c1..38135ad 100644
--- a/src/clj/coffi/mem.clj
+++ b/src/clj/coffi/mem.clj
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@
 
 (def ^ValueLayout$OfAddress pointer-layout
   "The [[MemoryLayout]] for a native pointer in [[native-endian]] [[ByteOrder]]."
-  ValueLayout/ADDRESS)
+  (MemoryLayout/valueLayout MemoryAddress native-endian))
 
 (def ^long short-size
   "The size in bytes of a c-sized short."