diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 8113c4f7..7c98f4bc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ HISTORY
 
  ++ Bugfixes:
 
+  2011-06-26: Simon Goldschmidt
+  * mem.c: fixed bug #33545: With MEM_USE_POOLS==1, mem_malloc can return an
+    unaligned pointer.
+
+  2011-06-26: Simon Goldschmidt
+  * mem.c: fixed bug #33544 "warning in mem.c in lwip 1.4.0 with NO_SYS=1"
+
    2011-05-25: Simon Goldschmidt
   * tcp.c: fixed bug #33398 (pointless conversion when checking TCP port range)
 
diff --git a/src/core/mem.c b/src/core/mem.c
index 9dbbaf65..2128a28e 100644
--- a/src/core/mem.c
+++ b/src/core/mem.c
@@ -78,9 +78,10 @@
 void *
 mem_malloc(mem_size_t size)
 {
+  void *ret;
   struct memp_malloc_helper *element;
   memp_t poolnr;
-  mem_size_t required_size = size + sizeof(struct memp_malloc_helper);
+  mem_size_t required_size = size + LWIP_MEM_ALIGN_SIZE(sizeof(struct memp_malloc_helper));
 
   for (poolnr = MEMP_POOL_FIRST; poolnr <= MEMP_POOL_LAST; poolnr = (memp_t)(poolnr + 1)) {
 #if MEM_USE_POOLS_TRY_BIGGER_POOL
@@ -113,9 +114,9 @@ again:
   /* save the pool number this element came from */
   element->poolnr = poolnr;
   /* and return a pointer to the memory directly after the struct memp_malloc_helper */
-  element++;
+  ret = (u8_t*)element + LWIP_MEM_ALIGN_SIZE(sizeof(struct memp_malloc_helper));
 
-  return element;
+  return ret;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -128,13 +129,13 @@ again:
 void
 mem_free(void *rmem)
 {
-  struct memp_malloc_helper *hmem = (struct memp_malloc_helper*)rmem;
+  struct memp_malloc_helper *hmem;
 
   LWIP_ASSERT("rmem != NULL", (rmem != NULL));
   LWIP_ASSERT("rmem == MEM_ALIGN(rmem)", (rmem == LWIP_MEM_ALIGN(rmem)));
 
   /* get the original struct memp_malloc_helper */
-  hmem--;
+  hmem = (struct memp_malloc_helper*)(void*)((u8_t*)rmem - LWIP_MEM_ALIGN_SIZE(sizeof(struct memp_malloc_helper)));
 
   LWIP_ASSERT("hmem != NULL", (hmem != NULL));
   LWIP_ASSERT("hmem == MEM_ALIGN(hmem)", (hmem == LWIP_MEM_ALIGN(hmem)));